Rise St. James
Location:
Louisiana
Tags
Environmental Justice
Racial Justice
South
Economic Justice/Alternatives to Capitalism
Healing and Spiritual Resistance
RISE St. James is a faith-based grassroots organization formed to advocate for racial and environmental justice in St. James, Louisiana. learned in November 2019 that graves of people enslaved on former plantations had been discovered in an area in their community slated for a massive plastics facility.