Mutual Aid & Community in the Face of Climate Disaster
Helping our friends & colleagues in the Gulf Coast...
Hey there Green New Dealmakers,
Our hearts are with all of those in Louisiana, Mississippi, and across the country dealing with the fallout of climate disasters right now. We’re passing along a list of organizations doing mutual aid and local disaster relief efforts on the ground in response to the destruction caused by Hurricane Ida’s landfall in the Gulf.
Our friends, colleagues, and fellow activists and their communities have a long road to recovery ahead of them along the Gulf Coast, but our movement can and will be there to support them—in whatever way they need. For now, and for awhile, that’s going to be by donating resources (money and mutual aid) to those who are on the ground.
A good place to start is the community of St. James, in the heart of Cancer Alley…
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DONATE TO INCLUSIVE LOUISIANA HERE
![Twitter avatar for @soopajane](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/soopajane.jpg)
Another place that our friends and fellow activists on the ground consistently recommended we support was the mutual aid efforts of the local group, Imagine Water Works…
![Twitter avatar for @WaterWorksNOLA](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/WaterWorksNOLA.jpg)
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DONATE TO IMAGINE WATER WORKS MUTUAL AID NETWORK HERE
Ida hit Houma, Louisiana—home to a large Indigenous population—really hard…
![Twitter avatar for @iCyclone](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/iCyclone.jpg)
Indigenous Environmental Network is working with Another Gulf to bring mutual aid to Indigenous and Bayou communities in and around Houma...
![Twitter avatar for @IENearth](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/IENearth.jpg)
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DONATE TO ANOTHER GULF’S MUTUAL AID NETWORK HERE
![Twitter avatar for @AnotherGulf_](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/AnotherGulf_.jpg)
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The amazing organizers and activists at the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy (GCCLP) are also coordinating and supporting mutual aid efforts in communities across the Gulf…
![Twitter avatar for @GCCLP](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/GCCLP.jpg)
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GCCLP’s fund is controlled directly by frontline groups on the ground…
![Twitter avatar for @lilprole93](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/lilprole93.jpg)
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DONATE TO THE GCCLP COMMUNITY DISASTER RELIEF FUND HERE
![Twitter avatar for @andydhorowitz](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/andydhorowitz.jpg)
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We’ll share more resources to support folks on the ground as we get them.