FOR MORE ON THE ASSEMBLY OF ASSEMBLIES AND TO DOWNLOAD THE K20 REPORT: bit.ly/AOA2027 One year ago thousands of people across the Gulf South held events and commemorations marking 20 years since Hurricane Katrina.

As part of a powerful week of action in New Orleans, Project South co-facilitated the K20 People’s Movement Assembly alongside our allies and in partnership with the Katrina 20 Local Planning Committee. More than 200 people gathered together at the K20 PMA to honor the lessons and visions that have grown out of the decades since Katrina. Including the networks of grassroots power built in the face of disaster, displacement, and state abandonment. A year later, the lessons of Katrina are more important than ever. Across the country, we continue to see the state fail to protect our communities. We see it in the response to extreme climate disasters, the weakening of our food safety net and public health systems, the kidnapping of our immigrant community members, and the horrific deaths inside ICE detention. From power outages in Gary and Memphis, to Black people killed by police and the National Guard, working-class Black communities face many of the same questions Katrina asked us to confront: Who is protected? Who is abandoned? Who is criminalized? And what do we do when the systems that are supposed to keep us safe instead cause more harm? Katrina taught us that a climate disaster is never just about the storm itself. What happened in New Orleans was also shaped by racism, public policy, corporate extraction, and government neglect. But Katrina also showed us what people can do when we organize together. Those are lessons we still need today. This weekend, take time to reconnect with the lessons and commitments that emerged from K20: - Revisit the K20 Report and reflect on the lessons from the gathering. - Read and share the K20 Movement Agreements. - Learn more about the Assembly of Assemblies planned for April 2027. - - Bring the Movement Agreements into your community, organization, and everyday organizing. - Gather with others to discuss how these practices can strengthen our movements and build collective power.