We organize for racial & economic justice by convening spaces for Southern-based, grassroots movement building, leadership development, and strategic action.
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TODAY!
Honored to visit the University of Texas School of Law in October as the G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence! law.utexas.edu/publicinteres…
Here's the info re my public lecture on October 13th. If you're in the area, please join us (Registration QR code on the flyer).
📢 @ProjectSouth and Other Advocate Groups Send Letter to ICE Condemning Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers at Folkston. We continue to hear troubling reports of retaliation against detained individuals speaking out.
🔗 Read the full letter here: bit.ly/3TZqerw
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Honored to visit the University of Texas School of Law in October as the G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence! law.utexas.edu/publicinteres…
Here's the info re my public lecture on October 13th. If you're in the area, please join us (Registration QR code on the flyer).
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According to Azadeh Shahshahani, the legal and advocacy director at Project South in 2023, isolation for long periods “is cause for significant concern.”
“Two migrants died at Stewart by suicide after being held in solitary for prolonged periods.”
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Trump’s NSPM-7 builds on 25 years of surveillance, expanded terrorism laws and “preventative policing.”
Tina Al-khersan and Azadeh Shahshahani examine how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for today’s crackdown on dissent.
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
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Twenty-five years after 9/11, the repressive tools built for the "War on Terror" are being used against Cop City opponents, pro-Palestine organizers, anti-ICE activists.
Our latest article for @inthesetimesmag with my colleague Tina Al-khersan
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
“We have to resort to suing them just to get information that they very much have that they don’t want to give us," says Project South's Senior Staff Attorney Priyanka Bhatt in the article from WABE on the use of physical force in immigrant detention.
wabe.org/leaked-reports-show…
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Twenty-five years after 9/11, the tools built for the War on Terror are being used against Cop City opponents, pro-Palestine organizers and anti-ICE activists.
Tina Al-khersan and @ashahshahani trace the history.
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
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Trump’s NSPM-7 draws on post-9/11 “preventative policing” and the Patriot Act.
Tina Al-Khersan and @ashahshahani connect today’s crackdown on dissent to the War on Terror that communities have endured for decades.
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
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Trump’s domestic terrorism directive, NSPM-7, links “anti-capitalism” and “anti-Christianity” to political violence.
Tina Al-khersan and @ashahshahani examine its roots in 25 years of post-9/11 policing. #september11
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
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Read about how the U.S government continues to expand its tools of repression to further crush dissent in the latest article from Project South’s Legal and Advocacy Director @ashahshahani & Staff Attorney Tina Al-khersan. Thank you to @inthesetimesmag!
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
Read about how the U.S government continues to expand its tools of repression to further crush dissent in the latest article from Project South’s Legal and Advocacy Director @ashahshahani & Staff Attorney Tina Al-khersan. Thank you to @inthesetimesmag!
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
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Trump’s domestic terrorism directive, NSPM-7, links “anti-capitalism” and “anti-Christianity” to political violence.
Tina Al-khersan and @ashahshahani examine its roots in 25 years of post-9/11 policing.
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
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Twenty-five years after 9/11, the repression it was used to justify has only deepened.
In 2016, @ashahshahani and Stephanie Guilloud documented how the government criminalized Muslims, immigrants and political dissenters.
inthesetimes.com/article/how…
📢 TOMORROW! Join us for Project South's next Local to Global Webinar: 25 Years of Fighting the "War on Terror"!
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/NOWOT25
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Check out our article for @DaedalusJournal, journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: "Colonialism Turned Inward: Importing U.S. Militarism into Local Police Departments"
With my colleague Sofía Verónica Montez
amacad.org/daedalus/colonial…
📢 SAVE THE DATE: BROWNSVILLE HOMECOMING & PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT ASSEMBLY!
Mark your calendars to join @ProjectSouth for our annual Brownsville Homecoming and People’s Movement Assembly (PMA)! |
Oct. 10th from 1- 6 PM at the Mutual Aid Liberation Center @ 9 Gammon
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Learn more at 12pm & 8pm EST on @WABENews 90.1 FM & WABE.org #immigration #ICE #Georgia #gapol #atlpol
On today's #CloserLookWABE with @WABERoseScott: #Georgia is among the states with the most #ICE detainees, that are also reportedly living in "cruel and inhumane" conditions. Now, the @ACLUofGA, @AAAJ_Atlanta & Project South are suing for more information.
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On today's #CloserLookWABE with @WABERoseScott: #Georgia is among the states with the most #ICE detainees, that are also reportedly living in "cruel and inhumane" conditions. Now, the @ACLUofGA, @AAAJ_Atlanta & Project South are suing for more information.
Project South, the ACLU of Georgia, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Atlanta have sued federal immigration officials for records on conditions inside Atlanta ICE holding facilities.
Read the story & listen to the interview with @waberosescott here: bit.ly/4xYaAuJ
