Gulf South Rising Remembers Katrina, Builds Campaign

from Popular Resistance

Gulf South Rising is collaborating with local and regional organizers coordinated and supported over 13 events from August 21-30 in multiple locations from Gulfport to New Orleans. The Katrina 10 Week of Action represents a powerful coming together of many organizations dedicated to lifting up the leadership and resistance of the people on the frontlines.

Gulf South Rising (GSR) is a coordinated regional movement created to highlight the impact of the global climate crisis on the Gulf South region (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida). Through collaborative actions and events around strategic dates in 2015, like the 5-year commemoration of the BP Oil Crisis and the 10-year commemoration of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, GSR demands a just transition away from extractive industries, discriminatory policies, and unjust practices that hinder equitable disaster recovery and impede the development of sustainable communities.

Gulf South Rising recognizes the roots of the environmental and climate crisis, it “acknowledges that the global climate crisis is rooted in economic theories that promote mass consumption of limited resources, laws that maintain inequity, and social hierarchies and governance processes that limit civic participation.”

Their year-long initiative will:

Build regional movement infrastructure

Convene frontline communities around collective healing and ecological equity

Advance regional efforts of indigenous tribal and land sovereignty

Shift the regional narrative from resilience to resistance