08/29/2025
From the Gulf South to Gaza!
We demand the right to remain. The right to migrate. And the right to return!
August 29, 2005 is the day that Hurricane Katrina hit landfall. All this week social movement forces have converged in the Gulf South to commemorate 20 years of resistance and build power in this moment.
Today, August 29, 2025, marks the opening of a historic convergence in Detroit, Michigan—the People’s Conference on Palestine. This gathering convenes at a critical juncture to deepen collective strategy and strengthen the mass movement for Palestinian liberation in North America.
Project South is proud to be a part of the Katrina 20 Week of Action, a series of over 100 community-led events organized across three states in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. We culminated a six-month Katrina 20 Movement Assembly process yesterday, affirming commitments to practice global solidarity and action. We are also proud to endorse the People's Conference on Palestine bringing together over 3,000 people to continue deepening our collective organizing for a Free Palestine.
In the spirit of cross-movement solidarity, we invite our movements to stand together today:
1) Please share the graphic in this post, using “From the Gulf South to Gaza” to demand the Right to Remain, the Right to Migrate, and the Right to Return as a shared call for solidarity and action against violence, displacement, and climate crisis.
2) Share out the hashtags:
: the call to remember and reckon with the devastation & systemic displacement after Katrina. The right to remain and to return have been a call from the frontlines for two decades; the right to migrate with dignity is a call from the climate movement's reckoning with extreme weather events & political violence.
: the guiding principle for the Second Annual People’s Conference for Palestine. Gaza keeps our path true: it reminds us of our direction in the struggle and the sacrifices that have been made by the Palestinian people; it exposes the forces that we have to contend with on the path to liberation.
We Remember Katrina.
We Stand with Palestine.