Southern
Organizing
Movements need places to converge, learn, and govern together.
Southern Organizing builds, flanks, and fortifies movement infrastructure, movement education, and movement governance to grow movement power rooted in the U.S. South.
Infrastructure is what lets movement power travel.
The initiative works across local, regional, frontline, and global formations—coordinating assemblies, mutual aid, resource redistribution, education, and training.
A defining moment demands coordinated action.
The Assembly of Assemblies is a convening of representatives from organized bases working on critical frontlines to resist fascism and transform our world.
A national effort led by Southern organizations, rooted in Black Radical Traditions, and in practice with the ten K20 Movement Agreements, the Assembly will converge April 8–11, 2027 in Tunica, Mississippi.
The conditions demand bold action, radical imagination, coordinated action, and movement infrastructure at a scale we have yet to fully realize.
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A methodology for turning collective analysis into power.
The People’s Movement Assembly Handbook is designed for organizers, educators, activists, and community members who want to use the People’s Movement Assembly methodology to build power in their community, on their frontline struggle, and in social movements.
Open the People’s Movement Assembly HandbookSpecial acknowledgments to Jozan Powell, Cita Cook, Dan Leahy, Drost Kokoye, and Colette Pichon Battle.
A report can be more than a record. It can be an organizing tool.
The Katrina 20 Movement Assembly Synthesis Report & Organizing Handbook is a tool and an invitation to organize.
Created following the K20 People’s Movement Assembly, the report includes descriptions of the organizing and synthesis process, the full Katrina 20 Solidarity Statement, planning worksheets to develop an assembly, and the organizations and groups that engaged and affirmed the process.
When people agree on direction and practice political values with rigor and love, they begin to shape the future on their own terms.
Read the Katrina 20 ReportWhen the state fails, communities still need someone to call.
When the lights go out. When disaster hits. Who do we call? Each other. Project South’s work of building strong social movements also includes growing leadership, education, healing, and disciplined emergency response.
During summer 2025, Project South piloted a 90-hour Wilderness First Responder training through the Building A Movement Institute at its rural Georgia sanctuary space.
Participants trained in CPR, trauma care, bleed control, mass-casualty response, and other lifesaving skills. The program reframes emergency medicine for “austere environments”—from hurricane aftermaths to mass shootings.
Back in their home communities, participants are strengthening mutual aid liberation centers, sanctuary land projects, and long-term resilience across the South.