Elect Jonathan Anthony Roberts- District E City Councilman

01/31/2026

New Orleans is making decisions right now about data centers. Should the people have a real say?

Town Hall tomorrow:

📍 East New Orleans Library
5641 Read Blvd
🗓 Saturday, Jan. 31
⏰ 2:30 PM

Pull up and bring your questions.

01/12/2026

Community is our first line of defense. We organize not just to respond, but to protect our children, defend green spaces, and interrupt systems built on extraction, displacement, and neglect. When we stand together, we expose who benefits from erasure and who is willing to fight for care, land, and life. Organizing is how we hold power accountable, how we defend elders and futures at the same time, and how we make it clear that our communities are not disposable. This is what collective resistance looks like; and it’s only the beginning.

01/08/2026

WHO: The community: neighbors, gardeners, elders, families, and anyone who believes in protecting what we build together

WHAT: Community meeting & press conference to defend Ms. Glo’s Garden

WHEN: Monday, January 12 at 10AM

WHERE: Ms. Glo’s Garden, 2111 Dumaine St.

We’re calling the community out to stand with Ms. Glo, a 78-years-young elder who has spent years stewarding this garden as a space for healing, learning, and connection. This is about more than a garden; it’s about respecting elders, protecting community land, and refusing to let years of love and labor be erased for convenience or profit. Show up, sign the petition, share the information, and help us make it clear that this space matters and the people who care for it matter too.

01/07/2026

01/05/2026

Spending time surrounded by plants with my daughter never gets old 🌱 We both love how Mother Nature shows up with color, life, and quiet lessons about patience and care, and getting to explore that together is always a joy. From new leaves to big smiles, these moments remind me how grounding it is to slow down and grow alongside the things we nurture.

Huge shoutout to Crazy Plant Bae for creating such a beautiful, welcoming space that made these moments even more special; definitely had to capture it. Grateful for green spaces, shared love for plants, and memories rooted in joy 💚

12/15/2025

Yesterday in New Orleans we showed up for liberation; not just here, but everywhere.

This city knows the violence of cages dressed up as “order.” From immigration detention to mass incarceration, these systems are connected, rooted in the same global machinery of racism, colonialism, and capitalism.

Revolutionary Black Internationalism reminds us: our freedom is bound up with the freedom of others. From Haiti to the Gulf South, liberation has always been collective. Safety doesn’t come from borders or deportations; it comes from care, dignity, and people in motion together.

Abolition is international. Liberation is shared.

12/15/2025

I’m holding space for real dialogue. How do we move from enforcement to care, from fear to freedom, from control to collective safety?

Yesterday I stood in a No ICE action here in New Orleans; not as a spectator, but as someone committed to imagining a different future.

New Orleans has a long memory when it comes to incarceration, displacement, and systems that claim protection while producing fear. When immigration enforcement relies on detention, family separation, and collaboration with local systems, it’s worth pausing to examine whether those approaches actually make our communities safer, or just more traumatized.

What if safety didn’t begin with cages, raids, or surveillance?
What if belonging wasn’t conditional on papers?
What if we invested in care, stability, and dignity instead of punishment?

Abolition isn’t about absence, it’s about presence. Presence of housing, healthcare, legal protection, labor rights, and community accountability. It’s about dismantling systems that fracture families and replacing them with structures that allow people to live whole, rooted lives.

This moment asks us to think beyond reform and toward transformation. Not tweaks to a violent system, but the courage to build something new. Liberation demands more than sympathy, it demands imagination and action.

11/01/2025

Early voting started today, and our voices matter now more than ever. 🗳️

This election will shape the future of our neighborhoods, our schools, and our city.

Make a plan. Bring a friend. Show up early and let your vote speak for you and your community.
Real change begins when we show up together. ✊🏾

10/22/2025

Our community has carried this city for generations; through our labor, culture, and creativity; yet we’re still locked out of the very systems we helped build.

As we move toward the runoff, I’m asking a real question:

👉🏾 What’s the economic plan for the Black community?

How will we build ownership, not just employment; equity, not just access?

Because true change means shifting power, investing in Black businesses, homeowners, and youth and demanding a city that finally values our worth.

It’s time to turn promises into policy. ✊🏾

10/21/2025

They told us to vote. We did.
Now it’s time to demand better from those we put in power.

Too many leaders talk about justice while cashing checks from the same systems that profit off suffering at home and abroad.

This isn’t just about one politician; it’s about a political order that rewards loyalty to power over loyalty to the people.

We deserve representatives who serve with integrity who don’t sell out our communities for campaign contributions.

The next movement won’t be bought; it’ll be built by us.

✊🏾 The people are awake.
The question isn’t “who’s next?” it’s “who’s ready?”