Defending Black Lives Globally — $2.8 million in grants
Grassroots International links the struggle to defend Black lives in the US with the struggles of Black and Afro-descendant peoples around the world.
Our Impact
Our grantmaking supports deep transformations in unjust systems by advancing social movements. Thanks to our supporters, we've had many recent successes including:
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Confronting the Pandemic — $695,000 in emergency grants
Grassroots International has supported our partners to confront the COVID-19 pandemic through combining emergency response and transformative solutions.
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Advancing Grassroots Feminism
As the pandemic sheds light on the critical yet largely invisible role of women as food producers, care workers, and other essential/frontline workers, Grassroots International has supported grassroots feminist organizing in response to multiple crises.
News and Updates
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Movements Expose Corporate Power, Not People Power, Behind the UN Food Systems Summit
Despite being touted as a “people’s summit,” the UN Food Systems Summit is the latest attempt at the corporate takeover of the world’s food systems.
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Quilombola Communities Defend Territory Against Invasion in Brazil’s Cerrado
Grassroots International has heard from our grantee Movimento Quilombola no Maranhão (MOQUIBOM) about a Quilombola territory in Maranhão, Brazil, that's been invaded by armed men. But the community has resisted.
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Today, we join millions of small farmers, fisherfolk and Indigenous Peoples to boycott and expose the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021. We must defend the planet and people at the heart of healthy and sustainable #FoodSystems4All. But why oppose the summit?Despite claiming to include “all voices,” billionaires and the top 1000 corps in the Davos World Economic Forum are actually behind the #UNFSS2021. They are going behind the backs of established global governance structures. We say #NotInOurNames
These corporations and billionaires are peddling climate-killing, land-grabbing, and livelihood-destroying agribusiness, dressing it up as achieving “food security.” But peasants are exposing the truth. We need #FoodSystems4People.
Learn more how you can join the efforts to build real popular control of our food and our planet: grassrootsonline.org/foodsov + unfss2021.org + viacampesina.org
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(6/6) Learn more how you can join the efforts to build real popular control of our food and our planet:… https://t.co/9pIsLyDIJK
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(5/6) Now’s the time to step up. Reshare content on the hashtags #FoodSystems4All and #NotInOurNames from… https://t.co/b9IEy2bil2
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(4/6) As @via_campesina says, “The real solution to climate crises, hunger, distress migration and extreme poverty… https://t.co/vlSzCASXyO
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(3/6) These corporations and billionaires are peddling climate-killing, land-grabbing, and livelihood-destroying ag… https://t.co/c6nDa31Lsr
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(2/6) Despite claiming to include “all voices,” billionaires and the top 1000 corps in the Davos World Economic For… https://t.co/jdKbSIetuL
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(1/6) Today, we join millions of small farmers, fisherfolk and Indigenous Peoples to boycott and expose the UN Food… https://t.co/0uZBjvNWqq
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The @FoodSystems Summit is yet another attempt of billionaires and their corporations to capture and reshape food s… https://t.co/OJgnQOSUfo
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Join us and @USCPR_ to demand that Congress block the $735 million in missile sales to Israel. No U.S. tax money fo… https://t.co/BjBhI2ydDX
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To address climate change, we need *real*, not false solutions. But the Paris climate agreement is dominated by cor… https://t.co/hdHO3WxU6F
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On Saturday night, 9/11, ten armed men invaded the #quilombola territory Tanque da Rodagem and São João in #Brazil.… https://t.co/gd6jCF3mAA
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