Defunding police: Atlanta shows politicians’ promises don’t equal change
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After photo ops and praise from the press, Atlanta leaders reneged on a promise to end cash bail. Will the same happen to #DefundPolice campaigns?
Latest
Detainment centers are not equipped to handle the coronavirus, experts say
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As the coronavirus pandemic worsens, mass incarceration is a public health threat to everyone.
Southern Politics
NC workers making sub-minimum wage could get a boost on Super Tuesday
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$7.25 is bad enough, but some workers are making even less.
Elections
Fighting voter suppression in the South will make or break the 2020 elections
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A new film looks back at how rampant voter suppression cost Stacey Abrams the Georgia governor’s race. And it spells out how to fight for voting rights in 2020.
Georgia
Video: In their own words, why Kentucky miners are blocking a coal train
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Blackjewel coal company tried to shut down without paying employees. But miners are taking a stand to demand fair treatment.
Labor movement
“If we win here, we can win anywhere”
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After a serious fire destroyed part of the Highlander Center, we look back at a 2017 conversation with the co-directors of this important “home for movement” in the South.
Combating White Supremacy
A blueprint for progressive wins in the South, and other lessons from the midterm elections
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Southern organizers bring an election analysis more inspiring than you thought was possible.
Elections
How far will Alabama go to keep its citizens from voting?
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Just ask Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, who's fighting to bring the vote to thousands of people the state would rather keep disenfranchised.
Issue 6
Why the South needs movement journalism
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A Southern People’s Media Network could support and expand reporting that helps everyone get free.
Journalism
What happens when you leave poor Whites behind
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There’s been hardly any investment from the Left in organizing poor and working class White folk, and that void has been justified by this notion that they are hopelessly racist and backward. That has turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.