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This year’s World Food Day, celebrated on Octobe

This year’s World Food Day, celebrated on October 16, focuses on the theme “Right to Food for a Better Life and Future.” Ensuring this right isn’t just about access to food—it starts in the soil, with seeds. Seeds are the foundation of all plant life, and protecting the right to food means safeguarding the diversity of seeds, standing with the farmers who save and share them, and resisting the corporate domination that threatens global food systems.

Check out this great piece from @familyfarmcoalition staffer and @usfoodsovalliance member Samantha Cave: https://usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org/world-food-day-the-right-to-food-begins-with-seeds/

Tomorrow, October 16, the global movement for food

Tomorrow, October 16, the global movement for food sovereignty is organizing an online event to launch the next @nyeleniforum!

The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC), a global coordination space led by social movements, was created in 2003 to make the participation of fisherfolk, Indigenous Peoples, and peasants more effective in global policymaking.

The Nyéléni global process, coordinated through the IPC, includes regional consultations with different social sectors on strategies for addressing critical issues like hunger, patriarchy, climate change, and threats to the territorial rights of Indigenous Peoples, peasants, and other frontline constituencies.

Grassroots International has been a proud supporter from the very beginning.

More info on tomorrow's event here: https://t.ly/ttQjB

Deeply grateful to our ally @visualizing_palestine

Deeply grateful to our ally @visualizing_palestine for releasing their new book through @haymarketbooks.

As a new generation of movement-builders seek to understand Israel’s brutal, illegal occupation of Palestine, Visualizing Impact’s vivid and informative graphics over the course of 200 pages reveal deep truths about the decades-long Palestinian struggle for freedom.

The infographics present more than just data: colorful, accessible, and thoughtfully arranged, the oppression they document in stark detail dovetails with stories of perseverance and strength. From the history of Zionist settlement to the depopulation of Palestinian villages; from the construction of an apartheid wall to the destruction of olive trees; from hunger strikes to mass protests to boycotts, Visualizing Palestine’s graphics are powerful, comprehensive, and demand our attention.

As Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things, wrote, the collection represents "the anatomy of an occupation laid bare."

Visit haymarketbooks.org for more info.

Grassroots International expresses its heartfelt c

Grassroots International expresses its heartfelt condolences to the family, friends, and fellow organizers of Honduran land and environmental defender Juan López, violently murdered by armed assailants on 14 September 2024. As we mourn this loss, we are reminded of the 2016 murder of our beloved Berta Cáceres, the 2020 kidnapping and disappearance of youth leaders Alberth Sneider Centeno, Milton Joel Martínez Álvarez, Suami Aparicio Mejía García, Gerardo Misael Trochez Calix, and Junior Rafael Juárez Mejía from Garifuna territory in Triunfo de la Cruz, and so many others killed on the frontlines of territorial defense. Every day of injustice and impunity is one too many.

For Juan López and the Honduran people, the struggle for justice is now!

Justice for Juan López! Justice for Berta! Justice for the youth of Triunfo de la Cruz!

Justice for all!

Read our full statement: grassrootsonline.org/learning-hub

Learn the latest on how Brazil’s social movement

Learn the latest on how Brazil’s social movements are advancing food sovereignty, agrarian reform, and urban-rural mutual aid while mobilizing against industrial agriculture, land grabbing, mining, and more! Join our Solidarity Encounter to hear directly from Grassroots International staff members and donor-activists who participated in our July 2024 Delegation to Brazil.

Thursday, September 12, 3 - 4:30 pm ET

Register: bit.ly/encounter-0924
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#brazil #solidarity #foodsovereignty #foodjustice

🚨 VIOLENCE and ILLEGAL DETENTION in Maranhão,

🚨 VIOLENCE and ILLEGAL DETENTION in Maranhão, Brazil 🚨

Families with the Landless Workers Movement (@movimentosemterra) from the Salete Moreno Camp, in the municipality of Itinga, Maranhão, have suffered violent and illegal action by the Military Police.

Three people were arrested and have been in police custody since Tuesday afternoon (July 30th). They were cowardly attacked, physically beaten and thrown to the ground. One woman is a human rights defender in the state.

Without a judicial warrant and without any express order, a convoy of around five Military Police vehicles and motorcycles went to the site accompanying the big landowner.

The União and Amaralina farms are occupied by around 100 families and the area is public. In dialogue with INCRA, the Brazilian government body for land use, it should be earmarked for land reform.

We demand urgent action from the authorities and effective action against the violence practiced against the families of rural workers and the immediate release of the detained activists.

Today we commemorate the start of Black August. Bu

Today we commemorate the start of Black August. But we also commemorate the end of the US's occupation of Haiti, which lasted from July 28, 1915 until August 1, 1934. Haiti, the first nation to free itself from chattel slavery, embodies the best traditions of Black August.

Then as now, US imperial intervention is no solution to the crises facing Haiti. In fact, as Haitian movements argue, it is the cause of them.

Listen to the full words of our Haitian partners, including Camille Chalmers of PAPDA on our website:

grassrootsonline.org/learning_hub/haiti-foreign-intervention-no-solution-video/
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#Haiti #blackhistory #blackaugust #haiti🇭🇹

Yesterday, our staff member Ayman marched with tho

Yesterday, our staff member Ayman marched with thousands of others in Washington, D.C. to protest the US Congress’ warm welcome of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

While this war criminal receives the royal treatment, his regime has turned Gaza into a graveyard for children.

This isn’t the first time he’s marched against Netanyahu. But we promise to keep organizing to seek justice for the people of Palestine and all of humanity.

Read his full blog at: grassrootsonline.org/learning-hub
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#netanyahu_a_criminal_of_war #Palestine #FreePalestine #EndIsraelsGenocide #solidarity #arrestnetanyahu

“If you ask an agribusiness person what land is,

“If you ask an agribusiness person what land is, it’s a space for production. If you ask a family farmer, it’s home. It's where life happens.”

Our Brazil delegation ended with a bang, with three deeply impactful days with another of our amazing Brazilian partners, @mcpbrasil (Movimento Camponês Popular, Popular Peasant Movement). From within the belly of the beast of Brazil’s agricultural and mining industrial complex, the family farmers of MCP are saving and reproducing creole (peasant) seeds, creating agroecological corridors, standing up to extractive megaprojects, and advocating for the rights of peasants to grow safe and healthy food to feed the population.

Our final day was particularly moving as we heard directly from communities resisting the devastating impacts of mining projects, who are seeking international solidarity to amplify their struggles.

Stay tuned for more to come and visit grassrootsonline.org/regions-partners/ to learn more about partners like MCP.
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#brazil #foodsovereignty #MCPbrasil #solidarity #internationalism #peasants #foodjustice

This week we met up with many of our movement part

This week we met up with many of our movement partners in Brazil — including
@levantedajuventude (Popular Youth Uprising, LPJ). These dynamic youth organizers had a lot to say about their work, so we're just going to let them speak for themselves:

"Neoliberal ideology individualizes a lot. It’s hard to convince the youth to organize collectively.

We see our task today as building popular strength so we can not only defend democracy but dispute the agenda at the national level and raise the demands of youth...

We have been moving forward building bonds of solidarity with both national and international allies, including Grassroots International, to whom we are grateful for helping us to strengthen."

It was so great to meet with this dynamic youth movement!

Land that sustains livelihoods, livelihoods that s

Land that sustains livelihoods, livelihoods that sustain land... no to agribusiness land grabs!

In the eyes of Brazilian and foreign agribusiness elite, Brazil's highly diverse and extremely vulnerable Cerrado savannah is of little value in its natural state, making it a prime zone for land grabbing for industrial monocrop production. But members of @movimentosemterra's Pequeno William settlement in the Federal District have a different take: "If you look at the Cerrado as a source of income, you can see money everywhere without needing to cut it down."

Through agroecology, they are bringing Cerrado land once devastated by industrial agriculture back to life. This includes preserving and propagating native trees and plants adapted to the Cerrado's dry climate and acidic soils and restoring damaged soil through nutrient- dense ground cover. As they recover the land and its biodiversity, they are recovering ancestral knowledge on uses of native vegetation, from food to medicine to liquor to natural dyes and perfumes. And they are exploring ways to make Cerrado-based products accessible to consumers as a form of sustainable livelihood generation.

"We need to generate income through using and preserving at the same time. Our efforts are to keep the Cerrado standing."

Follow along this week for more from our Brazil delegation!
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#GRIDelegation #Brazil #Solidarity #ClimateJustice #FoodSovereignty #MSTBrasil

Food sovereignty and popular agrarian reform are r

Food sovereignty and popular agrarian reform are rooted in community and land!

The 8 de Março encampment and Pequeno William settlement of @movimentosemterra graciously hosted Grassroots International donors and supporters and taught us more about their work. Thank you!!

For decades, the MST has organized hundreds of thousands of members to move people from landless and impoverished conditions to homes, communal farming, and dignity. We are honored to have accompanied them as partners for over 25 years — supporting their human rights defense, agroecology trainings, and other efforts.

Stay tuned for another report from our Brazil solidarity delegation!
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#brazil #GRIDelegation #MST #mstbrasil #foodsovereignty