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Article

31 Aug 2015

Author:
DeSmog (USA)

Social Justice and Climate Justice Movements Merge in New Orleans 10 Years After Hurricane Katrina

According to Johnston, money spent on Katrina 10, the month-long celebration sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and other corporate sponsors, is just another example of how the allocation of funds in post-Katrina New Orleans never made it to African American folks like her. Corporate sponsorship was ever present. Katrina 10 hosted panel discussions, lectures, musical performances, second line parades, and visits from three presidents (Obama, Clinton, Bush)…“Our only hope is the rise of mass movements with the combined goals of saving the environment and achieving social justice.” [Naomi Klein wrote]…Signs of the merging of social and environmental justice groups could be found in New Orleans related to Katrina's 10th anniversary at events held by Gulf South Rising, a coalition of dozens of groups that deal with the impact of climate change on the Gulf Coast region…“You can’t talk about climate change without talking about social justice,” Pastor Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow, a human rights activist and brother of Rev. Al Sharpton, told DeSmog…Louisiana’s coast continues to erode at the rate of approximately one football field-sized piece of land every 39 minutes…