Project South

We're not in this fight alone. The 2026 Women's Convening is a collaborative effort, and we're proud to partner with all of these organizations and groups to build a feminist future.

On September 26, 175+ women from every state will come together in Houston to train, organize, strategize, and begin building what comes next.

Women's March is convening feminists from across the country to connect, strengthen our collective power, and build the infrastructure needed for the work ahead.

📍 Houston, TX | September 26

🎟️ For tickets, visit womensmarch.com/conveningtickets.

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Project South is excited to be partnering with Women's March this year to train up a cohort of community leaders in all 50 states + DC and Puerto Rico to organize Women's Assemblies.

Over the next year, hundreds will gather in assemblies to discuss how gender is used by authoritarians to divide, control, and demonize. They will discuss visions and strategies to activate the power of women, including transwomen and nonbinary people, setting our own agendas and taking action to build what we need in our communities.

We are proud to partner with Women's March to move from mobilization to organizing, and from isolation to collective unity. It is time to move from reacting to attacks to building solutions for the long haul.

🎉 Congratulations to Project South’s Legal & Advocacy Director, Azadeh N. Shahshahani, who will be visiting the University of Texas School of Law this October as the G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence!

As part of her residency, Azadeh will give a public lecture on October 13.

📍 If you’re in the Austin area, check it out! Scan the QR code on the flyer to register.

Congratulations, Azadeh! ✨

Thank you Press On for sharing the words of our Senior Narrative Strategist! And thank you for all the work you do to build the movement journalism infrastructure our communities need!

Reposted from Press On:

The term “movement journalism” was born at Project South, an Atlanta-based leadership development org that creates movement-building spaces, in 2017. Press On emerged a year later to help advance movement journalism in the South—the birthplace of some of the most effective, strategic, and visionary organizing in the country.

We continue to look to Project South for guidance on how movement storytellers can best center communities fighting for Black liberation and social and economic justice. Their senior narrative strategist, Desiree Evans (she/her), reminds us that our journalism is inextricably linked to systems of power and oppression; therefore, we must challenge these systems so we don’t uphold and reproduce them:

“Journalists can be accountable to grassroots movements by recognizing that journalism does not exist outside of systems of power and that words are never neutral. Storytelling and media have the power to either uphold systems of oppression or challenge them.

I began my working life as a journalist and attended J-school, where one of the first lessons we were taught was objectivity: the idea that as media makers we could somehow stand outside the world we were reporting on as neutral, unbiased, and detached observers, even as the work produced often reinforced the status quo and reproduced elite consensus.

I worked in newsrooms after 9/11, when much of what I saw presented as objective journalism was state propaganda and warmongering. It taught me to question what we call neutrality, especially in a world where dominant power structures dictate what is considered truth, whose suffering matters, and who gets to live or die.

In a world of unequal power, journalism has too often served as a mouthpiece for empire, genocide, colonialism, war, and white supremacy. Knowing this, journalists have a responsibility to study and analyze power rather than simply repeat what powerful institutions say.

Journalists must go where people have the least access to platforms and institutional power, recognize those communities as experts on their own lives and experiences, and offer them the tools to tell their own stories. Accountable journalism must challenge power, not simply reproduce it.”

Share with your networks! Project South is seeking candidates for a full-time leadership position: Director of Finance.

Join a dynamic team! Be part of a social justice, movement building anchor organization in the South! Bring your skills to a 40 year-old institution that supports frontline organizers, groups, and formations!

Link to application is in bio and at bit.ly/PS-Finance-2026

From the article:

In 2024, there were 27 reports of physical force used against detained immigrants across the two Georgia detention centers. In 2025, there were 44 reports.

“I have heard of all of this happening for many, many years now,” said Priyanka Bhatt, an attorney with the immigrant rights nonprofit Project South. She said she rarely gets to see official documentation from the government detailing use of force issues, though. “We file Freedom of Information Act requests to get information from the government, about use of force, about sexual assaults, about deaths in detention, and they don’t give it to us,” Bhatt said. “We have to resort to suing them just to get information that they very much have that they don’t want to give us. That costs money and time, and years and years of it.”

Leaked reports show surge in use of force in Georgia immigration detention centers An analysis of daily Immigration and Customs Enforcement emails called the “Daily Detainee Assault Report” found use of physical force against immigrants in Georgia immigration detention centers increased from 2024 to 2025.

This month marks the 25th anniversary of the War on Terror, Project South is reflecting on what 25 years of resistance can teach us as we build strategies to protect Muslim communities, Black people, migrants, organizers, and all those facing criminalization and persecution in 2026.

What have our movements learned?

What strategies have carried us through?

And how can those lessons help us build power for what comes next?

👉🏾 Click through the slides for a few lessons from the last quarter century of resistance and what they can teach us now.