Fighting for Open Borders: Azadeh Shahshahani – From Tehran to Atlanta – to the National Lawyers Guild and the Project South Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide #SPLC
Azadeh Shahshah leading an SPLC-sponsored anti-enforcement rally in Atlanta, Jan 2016. Image: DIS
Avowed enemy of ICE and immigration enforcement. Radical leftist with ties to the communist party through the NLG, which
- Uses the law to promote âbasic change in the structure of our political and capitalisteconomic systemâ
- Has longstanding ties to the Communist Party and its front groups
- Defends all manner of America-hating radicals
- Has consistently opposed U.S. foreign policy while supporting Americaâs enemies across the globe
- Has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures by the U.S. government
Read more about the national Lawyers Guild (NLG) here, from David Horowitz.
“Shahshahani was elected President of the National Lawyers Guild âThe NLG has served as my political home. NLG members have been some of my strongest mentors, role models, and friends. There is no other organization like the NLG serving as a base for legal activists. It provides a space to do political legal work and be connected to other movement lawyers, legal workers, law students, and jailhouse lawyersâ says Shahshahani. *From Tehran to Atlanta: Social Justice Lawyer Azadeh Shahshahaniâs Fight for Human Rights.
Azadeh Shahshahani currently is Legal & Advocacy Director for the leftist ‘Project South The Institution For Elimination of Poverty and Genocide’ in Atlanta and is active in fighting enforcement of American immigration laws – and for “liberation.”
Mission statement from Project South:
“PROJECT SOUTH IS A COMMUNITY BASED MEMBERSHIP INSTITUTE THAT DEVELOPS POPULAR POLITICAL/ECONOMIC EDUCATION AND ACTION RESEARCH FOR ORGANIZING AND LIBERATION. PROJECT SOUTH BUILDS RELATIONSHIPS WITH ORGANIZATIONS AND NETWORKS ACROSS THE US AND GLOBAL SOUTH TO INFORM LOCAL WORK AND TO ENGAGE IN BOTTOM UP MOVEMENT BUILDING FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE.”
Two million dollars in donations in 2017
“Project South” received more than $2 million in contributions in 2017 according to their IRS form 990. You can donate to Shahshahani here, OR you can donate to the pro-enforcement Dustin Inman Society here.
Shahshahani is a race-baiting former Director of the National Security/Immigrants’ Rights Project at the ACLU of Georgia. and Detention Watch, which is dedicated to open borders through the prohibition of confinement for illegal aliens.