A community-rooted organizing framework bringing together partner organizations, faith communities, and civic leaders across Louisiana to build political and community power.
Pillar One
Let's Geaux Learn
Building the knowledge base — civic literacy, systems understanding, and political education rooted in South Louisiana's history and communities.
Pillar Two
Let's Geaux Vote
Moving registered voters to the polls and protecting every vote — from voter education and trusted-messenger outreach to election protection on the ground.
Pillar Three
Let's Geaux Fight
Holding power accountable — through redistricting advocacy, legislative engagement, faith-rooted civic action, and sustained community organizing.
Programs & Initiatives
Each program area has its own hub of documents, trainings, and resources.
General LGL Resources
Framework documents, partner materials, the South Louisiana field plan, and cross-program tools.
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Louisiana Organizing Institute
Geaux Organize — training curriculum, systems-literacy modules, and the Freedom Infrastructure Framework.
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What's Geauxin On?
Partner communications, convenings, legislative briefings, and community education resources.
Each tab in the navigation is a resource hub. Here’s what you’ll find on every page.
General LGL Resources
Framework & Field Tools
The organizing backbone — the Organizing Louisiana guide, the South Louisiana field plan, partner forms and requests, current partner actions and campaigns, community issue explainers, and policy trackers covering redistricting, federal policy, the economy, and the environment.
Organizing Louisiana guide & South Louisiana field plan
Partner & volunteer forms and requests
Partner actions & campaigns
Community issue explainers
Redistricting, federal & state policy trackers
Organizer Institute
Trainings & Organizing Tools
The Geaux Organize training hub — faith leader civic training, Election Day planning, the candidate evaluation tool, Louisiana training guides for every organizing tactic, and general organizing toolkits. Free and ready to deploy.
Faith to Power civic training
Election Day planning & execution
Phone banking, canvassing & text banking guides
Louisiana & general organizer training guides
What’s Geauxin On?
Student & Youth Organizing
Resources for the next generation — the South Louisiana Student Organizer Institute program overview, issue briefs for student organizers, and high school worksheets and presentations. Rooted in Black political tradition.
Student Organizer Institute program overview
Issue briefs for student leaders
High school civic engagement worksheets
We Must Geaux Vote
Voter Engagement & Election Protection
The complete 2026 voter engagement hub — voter education materials, the Louisiana Amendments Explainer, trusted messenger infrastructure, voter rights guides, the November 3rd GOTV pushcard, and Election Day command plans for all 10 priority parishes.
Voter education & amendments explainer
Trusted messenger sign-up, guides & voter FAQ
Election Day command plans (10 parishes)
November 3rd GOTV pushcard
Geaux Time
Partner Phone Banks, Meetings & Events
The password-protected partner page — statewide, South Louisiana, and North Louisiana phone banks, mandatory partner meetings, organizer event schedules, and upcoming trainings. Ask your BVM Louisiana organizer for the password.
Statewide Partner Call & phone bank parties
Current phone bank codes & directions
Regional partner meetings & organizer events
Upcoming trainings
About the Framework
Let's Geaux Louisiana is a framework for South Louisiana organizers and community members — bringing everyone together from partner organizations, faith communities, and civic leaders across Louisiana to build political and community power.
The framework operates from a belief that lasting change requires infrastructure: trained organizers, educated voters, engaged faith leaders, and communities who know their power and how to use it.
South Louisiana Priority Parishes
OrleansEast Baton RougeJeffersonLafayetteCalcasieuSt. John / St. JamesIberiaWest Baton RougePointe CoupéeAcadiaVermilion
The countdown to Election Day, Nov. 3, 2026: a verified election and runoff calendar and five phases built on trusted messengers, culture, and tracking every touch.
Print-ready pushcard materials for Election Day get-out-the-vote efforts.
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Community Issue Explainers
Plain-language explainers on 24 issues shaping Black Louisiana communities — developed for trusted messengers and community organizers. Each brief documents conditions, systemic causes, and context for action.
Racial disparities in lending and capital access for Black-owned businesses in Louisiana, and pathways to build economic power through CDFIs and community wealth strategies.
The coordinated assault on Black voting districts and Black-led city governance following the Callais ruling and SB 121, including state interference in New Orleans elections.
Soaring home insurance premiums — up 40% since 2021 — stacked on rising rent, groceries, and car costs that disproportionately burden Black Louisiana families.
Louisiana's mass incarceration crisis, racial disparities in sentencing, recidivism, prison gerrymandering, and barriers facing people returning to their communities.
Meta's $50B data center in Richland Parish — hidden costs to ratepayers, sweeping tax breaks, lack of transparency, and environmental risks to Black communities.
Higher disability rates in Black communities due to environmental exposure and poverty, the threat of Medicaid cuts, and the intersection of ableism and racism in Louisiana.
Inequitable disaster recovery for Black communities from Katrina to Ida, FEMA exclusions tied to heirs' property, the canceled BRIC program, and community-led response models.
Louisiana's $7.25/hr minimum wage floor, wage theft, no paid leave protections, right-to-work barriers, and the racial wealth gap that keeps Black workers most vulnerable to poverty.
Achievement gaps, school funding inequity, discipline disparities, HBCU underfunding, and federal threats to equity-focused higher education programs in Louisiana.
Cancer Alley's 85-mile toxic corridor with cancer rates up to 47x the EPA limit, the Formosa Plastics fight, recent legal wins, and the emerging "Digital Cancer Alley" threat.
The Black church as civic infrastructure — from voter registration and redistricting education to disaster response and environmental justice organizing across South Louisiana.
Louisiana's second-highest food insecurity rate in the nation, SNAP disruptions, food deserts in Black neighborhoods, and the state's opt-out of the federal Summer EBT program.
Louisiana's maternal mortality crisis, the UnitedHealthcare Medicaid exit affecting 600,000+ members, federal Medicaid cuts, and severe rural healthcare shortages.
Louisiana's tenant-hostile eviction laws, no rent control, Section 8 discrimination, heirs' property vulnerability, and ongoing post-Katrina displacement in Black neighborhoods.
The ICE enforcement surge, the compounded burden on Black immigrants from Haiti and West Africa, ACA and Medicaid exclusions, and labor exploitation in Louisiana.
Legal aid shortage, federal civil rights rollbacks under DOJ, the post-Callais legal landscape, predatory lending, and Louisiana's police accountability gap.
Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, violence against Black trans women, the HIV/AIDS crisis, healthcare barriers, and Louisiana's lack of statewide non-discrimination protections.
Critical shortage of mental health providers, low treatment rates for Black adults, rising suicide rates among Black youth, and culturally competent care gaps in Louisiana.
Entergy's 30%+ rate increases, the data center energy burden on everyday ratepayers, and how low-income Black households in New Orleans spend nearly 10% of income on energy.
The Callais ruling, SB 121's elimination of the 6th District, the 42,000+ voided ballots, and concrete actions communities can take ahead of the November 3 elections.
Deep-dive on Louisiana's redistricting fight from the 2020 Census through the Supreme Court's Callais ruling, its national ripple effects, and organizing strategies in the aftermath.
Food insecurity on campuses, HBCU underfunding, the school-to-prison pipeline, the digital divide in rural parishes, and Black youth as a key constituency in the 2026 elections.
Civic engagement training for faith leaders — voter registration, IRS compliance guidance, and faith-rooted civic action. Written for broad accessibility.
Core organizing theory from Marshall Ganz — the public narrative framework and relationship-based organizing model that underpins community power building.
Request a training, workshop, or facilitated session for your organization or community group from the Let's Geaux Louisiana team.
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What's Geauxin On?
High school and collegiate student organizing — resources, training, and tools for the next generation of South Louisiana leaders.
South Louisiana Student Organizer Institute
The Student Institute is a signature program of Let's Geaux Louisiana, building the next generation of South Louisiana community organizers — rooted in Black political tradition and focused on systemic change.
Food insecurity on campuses, HBCU underfunding, the school-to-prison pipeline, the digital divide in rural parishes, and Black youth as a key constituency in the 2026 elections.
School funding disparities, school-to-prison pipeline, and education equity in South Louisiana — a framework for student organizers advocating for educational justice.
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Student-produced content, institute recaps, and upcoming youth convening announcements will be added here as they are produced.
We Must Geaux Vote
Voter engagement infrastructure for the Fall 2026 election cycle — from trusted messenger kits and constitutional amendment guides to parish-level Election Day command plans.
Overview of the We Must Geaux Vote Trusted Messenger Program — how barbers, stylists, faith leaders, artists, and business owners are equipped with verified voting information to counter disinformation in trusted community spaces.
Plain-language voter readiness guide — addressing the 447,000 voters on Louisiana's inactive list, what's on the November 3 ballot, when and where to vote, what ID to bring, and four easy questions messengers can use to start conversations.
Voter protection guide covering Louisiana ID requirements, what to do if your name isn't on the list, how to handle voter challenges, free Election Day hotlines, and key dates for the November 3, 2026 election.
Seven ready-to-copy text messages for the Fall 2026 election cycle — from the late August registration check through a potential December runoff. Written in trusted messenger voice so they read like a text from a friend, not a campaign blast.
