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Louisiana

Long-term organizing groups building power in this state. Groups marked priority are a great place to start.

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New Orleans

Greater New Orleans Caring Collective (GNOCC)

We are neighbors in the Greater New Orleans area who leverage relationships and resources to provide material support to at-risk families in our network and other organizations, thereby maximizing our reach. Our organizing principles include a focus on mutual aid and harm reduction as critical tools towards local community autonomy and resilience in the face of increasingly frequent catastrophic weather events and attempted wholesale destruction of public social programs by fascists and their sympathizers.

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New Orleans

Imagine Water Works

Led by Creole Indigenous, Native, and trans New Orleanians, this project combines art, science, and mutual aid around climate justice. It runs a Mutual Aid Response Network, hurricane prep guides, and the Imagination Farm for community care.

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Lift Louisiana

We envision a liberated and equitable Louisiana where our laws are rooted in compassion and empathy. Regardless of race, gender, class, or ability, every individual enjoys autonomy, access to essential information and unrestricted resources, allowing them to make informed decisions about their reproductive futures.

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Statewide

Louisiana Bucket Brigade

Based in New Orleans, the Bucket Brigade backs Louisiana neighborhoods living next to refineries, chemical plants, and gas export terminals. It gives residents air-sampling tools and permit guides and supports fights like Standing with St. James in Cancer Alley.

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New Orleans

Power Coalition for Equity and Justice

From offices in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, this coalition registers and turns out voters in Louisiana communities of color, offering rides to the polls, candidate forums, fair-maps advocacy, and a women's leadership program called She Leads.

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Step Up Louisiana

Parents, students, workers, and neighbors in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Harvey join this membership group to push for education justice, fair pay, and accountable public officials, with campaigns ranging from school funding to dollar-store worker safety.

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New Orleans

The Micah Project

Started by clergy in 2008, this Faith in Action affiliate brings congregations in Orleans and Jefferson parishes together to train local leaders and tackle concerns like education, incarceration, wages, and voter registration in Greater New Orleans.

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Baton Rouge / statewide

Together Louisiana

Formed after Hurricane Katrina, this statewide network of congregations and civic groups is part of the Industrial Areas Foundation. It is known for pressing for transparency and local control over Louisiana's Industrial Tax Exemption Program so corporate tax breaks don't drain school budgets.

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New Orleans

Unión Migrante

Unión Migrante es una organización democrática de inmigrantes y para inmigrantes. Nos dedicamos a la Lucha para la reforma migratoria y por nuestros derechos, la Capacitación para prepararnos, y a la Defensa para respaldarnos en casos de emergencia.

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New Orleans

VOTE / Voice of the Experienced

Made up of formerly incarcerated people in New Orleans, VOTE fights for full restoration of civil and human rights for people with convictions across Louisiana, pushing for parole access and for housing, jobs and mental health care after release.

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national groups with chapters near you

These national organizations have local chapters, hubs, or groups in most states. Click through to find the one closest to you, or to start one.

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50501

50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement. A volunteer-built, nonviolent movement defending democracy, with state and local groups organizing days of action and community.

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Authors Against Book Bans

A national network of writers, illustrators, and other creators fighting book bans and challenges. Members back local grassroots groups, speak at school board meetings, meet with legislators, and stand with librarians, educators, parents, and students defending the freedom to read.

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Black Voters Matter

Co-founded by LaTosha Brown and Cliff Albright, Black Voters Matter boosts voter registration and turnout in Black communities, mostly across the South, funds and trains local partner groups, and tours on its "Blackest Bus in America" to highlight voter suppression.

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Common Defense

Common Defense organizes veterans and engages the military community to transform our society by advocating for progressive policies that work for all of us.

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Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

The largest socialist organization in the U.S. Local chapters organize tenants, workers, and neighbors to build an economy run for human need, not profit. Look up your chapter by zip code.

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Dream Defenders

Dream Defenders is a Black-led, feminist, socialist, abolitionist, and internationalist political formation fighting for a world without prisons, police, capitalism, and imperialism. We envision communities where safety is built through solidarity, care, and self-determination rather than through punishment and surveillance. Founded in 2012 in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin, the Dream Defenders has grown into a powerful force advocating for liberation, justice, and dignity for Black and marginalized people across the United States and beyond.

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Indivisible

A network of thousands of local groups that hold elected officials accountable and defend democracy. Use the group map to find one near you, including groups marked newcomer-friendly.

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NDN Collective

Rapid City-based and Indigenous-led, this collective backs Native communities through organizing, grants, and loans to Indigenous groups and entrepreneurs. Its campaigns include LANDBACK, which seeks the return of Lakota lands in the Black Hills, along with climate justice and education equity.

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Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

A national network organizing white people to fight racism and economic injustice as part of multiracial movements. Find a local chapter or join a regular online orientation.

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Sunrise Movement

A youth-led movement of local hubs working to stop the climate crisis and win a Green New Deal. No hub near you? Sunrise will help you start one.

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Third Act

Organizes older Americans to protect climate and democracy, through volunteer-led working groups by location and by affinity.

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Working Families Party

Building a multiracial party of working people. WFP recruits and elects progressive candidates and organizes between elections, with state parties in 18 states and volunteer actions everywhere.

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