Southeast / Appalachia
Regional Contacts Atlanta Outreach Team: New Orleans Committee: Alabama & Prison Issues: Appalachia: South Florida: Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative (AL, GA, MS): Displaced people from the Gulf Coast: Women: LGBT/Queer: Youth: Disability Rights: Southeast Regional Outreach: Join the Southeast email list to receive updates and announcements. Click here to subscribe. WHY? The historical significance of the US South provides a powerful site for building the movement to engage with our current realities. The roots of US empire are planted firmly in Southern soil, beginning with the genocide and removal of native peoples, the establishment of the world’s most powerful economic system on the backs of enslaved Africans, and the continued repression through Jim Crow. The roots of people’s resistance also blooms bright in the South – from the Seminole Wars to the abolitionist movement to the Underground Railroad to the Civil Rights Movement. Just as Southerners have faced the unthinkable and unforgivable in the past, today the South faces the wake of yet another national disaster. And just as Southerners have transformed damage and abandonment into powerful freedom movements, the South will confront this new reality with a strong vision for liberation. WHO? Agricultural Missions, Inc., KY Alternate ROOTS, Southern Region Alton Park/Piney Woods Environmental Health & Justice Collaborative,TN Appalachian Women's Alliance, VA Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network, NC Atlanta Metro Task Force for the Homeless, GA Georgia Citizens’ Coalition on Hunger, GA American Friends Service Committee-Southern Region Amnesty International - Southern Region, GA Atlanta WAND – Women Advocating New Directions, GA Federation of Southern Cooperatives / Land Assistance Fund, AL, GA Coalition of Immokalee Workers, FL Eco-Action, GA Fairness for Prisoners’ Families, GA Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children, LA Highlander Education & Research Center, TN Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, KY Kentucky Jobs with Justice, KY Low-Income Families Fighting Together (LIFFT), FL Mississippi Workers Center, MS Fund for Southern Communities, GA People’s Hurricane Relief Fund, LA People’s Institute for Survival & Beyond, Southeast Project South, GA Safe Streets, Safe Communities, LA Save Our Cumberland Mountains, TN SEIU 1199, FL Sister Song: Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, GA (National) Sisterlove, Inc., GA Southeast Community Research Center, GA Southern Anti-Racism Network, NC Southern Empowerment Project, TN Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative, MS & AL Southerners On New Ground (SONG), NC Tenants and Workers United, VA The Ordinary People’s Society, AL |
