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A boarded up abandoned house is graffitied with a "Stop Cop City" tag, Thursday, July 20, 2023, in Atlanta. Activists with the Stop Cop City Vote Coalition are trying to get the signatures of more than 70,000 Atlanta residents by Aug. 14 to force a referendum allowing voters to decide the fate of a proposed police and firefighter training center. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) Mutual aid allows movements to resist and transform oppressive systems. It could also be what ultimately sustains us against climate change.
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Mutual aid strengthens ATL's abolitionist organizing work

by Julian Rose September 28, 2023September 28, 2023

The practice of mutual aid enables movements to resist and transform oppressive systems and conditions. With enough momentum, it can also carry us through climate change "as we approach the end of this world as we know it and the start of another."

The author, Mira Ugwuadu, posing for a portrait in the months after graduating from high school in Marietta, Georgia. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) Funding, education, and safety are at the top of the list of demands to dismantle the youth mental health stigma in Georgia schools.
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In Georgia, we need proactive—not reactive—mental health support in schools

by Mira Ugwuadu September 14, 2023November 13, 2023
Southern youth are speaking out on the mental health crisis, the challenges they face, and anxieties they hope to overcome.
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Notes on 'In Their Own Words,' a series on the youth mental health crisis

by Rainesford Stauffer September 14, 2023November 13, 2023
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Another kind of Memphis Blues

by Justin A. Davis June 15, 2023June 15, 2023
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

Scenes from the picket line: Kellogg workers on why they went on strike for two months straight

by Jason Kerzinski November 5, 2021December 3, 2021
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Abolition made practical

by Alysia Nicole Harris July 6, 2021July 6, 2021
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Killer Mike's radical lyrics are masking reformist politics

by Nicholas Vila Byers June 8, 2021June 28, 2021
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In Alamance County, a battle for racial justice confronts a bloody past and an uncertain future

by Carli Brosseau, ProPublica May 28, 2021July 27, 2021
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The Southern Tenant Union Playbook

by Sam Russek March 12, 2021March 15, 2021
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We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes

by Anoa Changa February 24, 2021March 3, 2021
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Five Peachy Takeaways: Georgia's grassroots organizing lessons will be valuable in the South for a long time coming

by Anoa Changa January 22, 2021August 20, 2021
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To shift the media narrative about the South, we have to rebuild it altogether

by Anoa Changa December 17, 2020December 17, 2020
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The Last, the Least, and the Lost

by Courtney Napier and Anoa Changa December 3, 2020January 11, 2021
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Asheville's 'historic' reparations resolution is not what it seems

by David Forbes July 24, 2020November 12, 2020
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Modern abolition and the lasting truth of change

by Scalawag Editors June 18, 2020April 16, 2021
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Black New Orleans City Waste workers build power against a crisis

by Mindy Isser June 17, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

How COVID-19 has changed the game for Black community organizers

by Courtney Napier June 12, 2020September 16, 2020
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The South Hollers 'Black Lives Matter'

by Alysia Nicole Harris June 11, 2020September 27, 2023
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Defunding police: Atlanta shows politicians' promises don't equal change

by Anna Simonton June 9, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Reckoning with white supremacy: Five fundamentals for white folks

by Lovey Cooper June 1, 2020December 26, 2020
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Rent Strikes & Beyond: Understanding eviction laws in the South

by Alysia Nicole Harris April 8, 2020September 16, 2020
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COVID-19: An extensive—and growing—list of political demands in the South

by Danielle Purifoy April 3, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

In pandemic times, radical imagination matters more than ever.

by Lewis Raven Wallace March 30, 2020February 10, 2021
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

This election season, Florida's people's assemblies focus on building a true democracy

by Eli Day March 17, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Social justice in a time of social distancing

by Kenneth Bailey & Lori Lobenstine March 13, 2020October 1, 2020
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

Community takes down neo-Nazis and slumlords in rural Tennessee

by Katie Myers March 9, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

'Starve the Beast': No New Cops

by Zaina Alsous November 4, 2019July 5, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Together and Beside Ourselves: In Conversation with Artist & Educator Hồng-Ân Trương

by Zaina Alsous July 1, 2019September 16, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

A Story of Us: In Conversation with Artists Monét Noelle Marshall and Saba Taj

by Zaina Alsous July 1, 2019September 16, 2020
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Green From Below

by Zaina Alsous June 24, 2019September 27, 2023

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