Author: zach
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LNG, Palestine, and Biden’s Climate Hypocrisy
Biden aims to secure the “youth” and “climate” vote, but we cannot allow false choices between peace and climate action. They are intertwined. In the environmental and climate justice movement in the U.S. Gulf South, we are in charge of our own destiny. We reject sacrifice zones anywhere and everywhere, from Port Arthur and Pascagoula…
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Free Palestine to Free Us All
GulfRoots has and will continue to unapologetically fight for Palestinian freedom until it is won. We mourn all the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost from the violence since October 7. We understand this violence is a product of a century of Zionist settler-colonial oppression and that the only way to reach peace is to uproot…
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Reflections on our first event – Reflexiones sobre nuestro primer evento
¡La justicia lingüística es justicia climática! ¡Organizar la cultura es organizar el clima! Gracias a Nueva Orleans por una celebración bilingüe muy especial el jueves pasado. GulfRoots y Familias Unidas en Acción estaban afortunados dar la bienvenida a Bocafloja, quien mostró su documental bello EnClave y su poesía hablada muy poderosa. Nosotros comimos tamales, los…
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Our First Event: Bocafloja in Bulbancha (New Orleans)
We are emerging into the world today! Yesterday, we gave an interview to WHIV 102.3 radio with Leticia Casildo from Familias Unidas en Acción. Check out the conversation on the intersections of art, climate, immigration, and democracy below. And catch us tonight, August 3, 2023, by RSVPing at bit.ly/boca-nola!