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.
Latest
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
What will it take to truly end wealth-based detention?
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More than a single law, Atlanta shows.
Economy & Class
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.
Witness
This governor wants to take over ‘failing’ public schools and turn them into charters
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And these activists are telling Georgia's Nathan Deal: That's not how it works. Published in collaboration with the Nation.
Education
Atlanta in (trans)formation
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Recent protests in Atlanta are about more than police violence. Can a new generation replace Atlanta’s pseudo-progressive power structure with real democracy and racial justice?