MISSISSIPPI RISING COALITION knows that the quality of life and well-being of all people in Mississippi are directly related to social, political and environmental factors, and these factors can be directly and positively impacted through strategic bottom-up organizing of people being impacted by injustice and oppression. We are guided by the Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing, knowing that impacted community members hold the solutions to create change.
Protect & Resist
We must protect our most vulnerable communities from violence and exploitation in all its forms- including incarceration, gentrification, gender-based violence, food apartheid, environmental degradation and pollution, police and ICE violence and poverty. We will organize grassroots resistance when violence and exploitation is encountered.
Dismantle & Build
We must dismantle violent systems of exploitation and oppression- including white supremacy, gender-based oppression and exploitation of workers and the Earth- and build new political, social and economic institutions and systems grounded in racial and gender equity, environmental sustainability, people-centered power and care for the public good. We will do this through community and movement building and organizing around climate and environmental justice, racial justice, economic justice and human rights.
Bottom-up community organizing, popular education, mutual aid, direct action, movement capacity-building and coalition building emerge as shared strategies needed to effect the systemic change necessary to create these conditions.
