TEP Center featured on CBS News
For Black History Month, CBS News did a feature on the TEP Center and the story of the “New Orleans Four”: Ms. Leona Tate, Ms.
We are holding space for all communities impacted by the recent storms, earthquake, fires, and other unnatural disasters.
As we in New Orleans recover from Ida, these events show us that our organizing fronts need to include a rapid response for communities historically left out.
When you combine the global pandemics of racism, coronavirus, and climate change, it is clear whose lives will continue to be on the line.
Black communities, along with other communities of color, have always depended on each other. History has taught us that we are our greatest resource. We know that until racism is dismantled, systems will continue to distribute resources the way that they always have.
The dominant culture that maintains and sustains systemic racism is the same that fuels the acceleration of climate change.
Exploitation of land and people, commodification of natural resources, dehumanization of indigenous and collective cultures, glorification of individualism and ownership, cycles of extraction, production, and displacement, violent protection of state and corporate interests — these are the forces fueling the pandemics we are living in.
We know that each storm and crisis can serve to disorganize and delay. Without established, humanistic responses in place, we can feel like we are finding our footing each time.
Our goal is to utilize our relationships and resources to put things in place that protect our people, and carry on the tradition of taking care of each other. To create spaces of meaningful recovery so that our anti-racist organizing can continue to guide us.
As we recover from Hurricane Ida and the rains and wind of Nicholas, we are once again called to move from “survival to beyond.”
If you are able to contribute to establishing an anti-racist, humanistic response for our collective, please donate.
For Black History Month, CBS News did a feature on the TEP Center and the story of the “New Orleans Four”: Ms. Leona Tate, Ms.
Mr. Ronald Chisom, PISAB co-founder and former Executive Director, was honored as one of New Orleans’ Black Hidden Heroes in a celebration on May 26th.
On May 10, a group of anti-racist organizers made a trip from New Orleans to Tchula, Mississippi, reconnecting with the people and a place that