A Whole Lotta Peoples Is Strong: Graphics from the Louisiana New South Coalition

The Louisiana New South Coalition (LSNC) pulled together photos and graphics from a number of grassroots organizations "who see their issue in the context of a greater disease racism – and who understand how racism divides us, hurts us and keeps power in the hands of a very few" to make a calendar with the title A Whole Lotta Peoples Is Strong. The coalition "supports the work of the organizations depicted but they are each independent of each other and of us." Click on the thumbnail graphics below to go to a larger picture.

The Louisiana New South Coalition	Jim Dunn and Ron Chisom, 1987	The Kuji Center
Free Gary Tyler!	Women of the St. Thomas Residents Council	The Gulf Coast Tenants Organization
Louisiana State Anti-Apartheid Committee	Lesbian and Gay Pride	Treme Community Improvement Association
Ecumenical Immigration Services	Welfare Rights Organization	The United Houma Nation
The Fishermen and Concerned Citizens of Plaquemines Parish	Kwanzaa at the Community Book Center

LSNC dedicated the calendar "to Jim Dunn and Ron Chisom, co-founders of the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond. Jim and Ron have committed their lives to undoing racism; and to Mississippi freedom fighter Fannie Lou Hamer who understood: "A Whole Lotta Peoples Is Strong!" The 1992 calendar was produced and designed by Charmagne Andrews and Lavaun Ishee.

(Ed: The pictures in this calendar give a visual snapshot of the powerful tradition of grassroots racial justice organizing in New Orleans that has been recreated in the aftermath of Katrina.)

Next: The Louisiana New South Coalition