Description
Katrina s Legacy is a history-based essay on revolutionary strategy at the intersection of the Black, Third World, and Climate Justice Revolutions. It roots the cause of the Climate Catastrophe in the social development of the Christian, European/U.S., feudal, capitalist, imperialist worldview.
Katrina s Legacy challenges white environmentalism and proposes an anti-racist, anti-imperialist, climate justice revolutionary strategy. Mann challenges the pretensions and lies of Western civilization and roots his work in the Indigenous, Black, and Third World rejections of white settler state barbarism.
Katrina s Legacy upholds the humanity, hope, and right of self-determination of Third World people and movements.
Katrina s Legacy is a tribute to the resiliency, determination, and resistance of Black people of New Orleans and is a plea to demand the Effective Right of Return of 100,000 Black People back to New Orleans. One key chapter is: Ten Reasons Why Katrina s Legacy Was a Genocidal Climate Crime.
Katrina s Legacy is rooted in the work of the author at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The chapter What Are We Going to do About the United States challenges President Obama s plans and pretensions in Paris and offers a programmatic alternative with real demands in the real world.
Katrina s Legacy teaches Black Revolutionary History, Environmental and Climate Studies, Urban Sociology, Revolutionary Strategy Tactics, and Organizing and Social Movement Studies.
KOMOZI WOODARD, author of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics. –
“Buy this book and study it well. Eric Mann was my first teacher in the black freedom movement; he taught me door-to-door canvassing and basic organizing. And then he introduced me to SNCC. Eric is still teaching and organizing a new generation, and setting the pace as we build up our strength for the Battle of New Orleans.”
VIJAY PRASHAD, author of Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity. –
“Eric Mann’s Katrina’s Legacy is excellent. Mann has a distinct talent for drawing political lessons from historical events. Every movement needs a map. Katrina’s Legacy takes us to the ravaged Gulf Coast and shows us how to find the road toward a Third Reconstruction. America needs this movement, and Eric helps us find our way.”
KALI AKUNO, People’s Hurricane Relief Fund Oversight Coalition. –
“Katrina’s Legacy stands with ‘Black Nations 9/11’ as the clearest strategic statement within the movement, a must read for anyone working in solidarity with the reconstruction movement in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.”
XOCHITL BERVERA, Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children. –
“Mann’s writing is a door. Our movement, and indeed, the very life of Black New Orleans, depends on our ability to fully comprehend and embrace the counter-hegemonic and long-term movement building demands that Mann describes.”
PHIL HUTCHINGS, Former chair, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. –
“Eric Mann is one of the few people who can combine strategy, tactics, effective grassroots organizing, and compelling writing.”
GLEN FORD, Executive Editor and Co-Publisher, BlackCommentator.com –
“Eric Mann places the Gulf catastrophe in the historical context of racist capitalist rule in the U.S. a system that reproduces disaster as a matter of course. In the struggle to allow the New Orleans diaspora to Return, Rebuild and Remain in their city, African Americans have the opportunity to launch a Third Reconstruction, one that will address demands for land, reparations, and the right to self-determination. Mann’s book arrives at what he correctly describes as a “critical moment,” when the “cracks in the ruling class levees” are visible for all to see. This moment cannot be allowed to pass. Eric Mann provides political generalship, and the outlines of a plan for action. He calls us all to our battle stations.”
AI-JEN POO, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities –
“An inspiring call to action rooted in a powerful tradition of Black resistance in the South. It provides a comprehensive framework, a clear vision and strategy for this moment in history to build the movement among communities of color and low-wage workers.”