Campaigning for ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Our mission is to fight environmental, economic and racial inequities through education, coalition and power building, policy advocacy, and mutual aid.
Decades of racist zoning policy and industrial pollution remain a threat to the health of our communities and the people living in them.
Moving mountains is possible. We’ve done it before.
In 2019 Southern Sector Rising (SSR) was established to disrupt illegal operations that littered more than 100,000 tons of discarded shingles, over a nine month period, next door to the home of Marsha Jackson in Floral Farms. Now Shingle Mountain may be gone, but the commitment to environmental justice and community advocacy remains.
SSR is an advocate for communities unjustly and disproportionately burdened by environmental racism.
We’ve conquered Shingle Mountain, but there’s much more to be done.
“Our community has been hurting. What we’ve been through will always be a legacy of Black history in Dallas.”
— Marsha Jackson
Join the SSR Movement
Whether you’re most comfortable contributing your time to help achieve our advocacy goals, money to help us grow, or energy to increase political pressure for equitable change, we need you on our team.