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Nov. 02, 2023

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For over 40 years, Grassroots International has ac

For over 40 years, Grassroots International has accompanied social movements for systems change.

Join us as we launch our 2023 End of Year Fundraising Campaign, #WeShowUp.

Our partners across the globe have been working on six interlinked thematic areas on the journey towards liberation: healing and wellbeing, human rights defense, ecological justice, food sovereignty, grassroots feminisms, and defense of territory. Given the breadth and scale of these issues, we make long-term partnership with social movements core to this work to create the sustained change that is needed.

Our goal is to raise $1.5M for our movement accompaniment work by December 31, 2023.

Support this critical work by making a donation using the donate button in our link in bio or at https://grassrootsonline.org/we-show-up/

Coming up on Wednesday: Stop Land Grabs seminar 11

Coming up on Wednesday: Stop Land Grabs seminar 11am-1pm Eastern (both in person at Harvard University and online via Zoom).

Activists and researchers from across the country and the world are coming together to discuss the key role that Harvard and other universities play in the financial speculation and theft of farmland. Learn more how an international movement of students, farmers, and human rights activists is defending rural peoples' communities in the US, Brazil and beyond.

Join in-person: http://tinyurl.com/LandSeminar or on Zoom: http://tinyurl.com/LandSeminarZoom

We’re joining hundreds of foundations and indivi

We’re joining hundreds of foundations and individual donors around the world who have signed onto the Philanthropy Open Letter for Humanity and Justice in Palestine and Israel demanding an immediate ceasefire.

In the face of so much pain and suffering, we call forth our deepest sense of humanity and justice, because we know that none of us are free until all of us are free. Read the full letter at the link in bio!
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Tomorrow at 11 AM Eastern. Register at https://bit

Tomorrow at 11 AM Eastern. Register at https://bit.ly/3Qwc50f

Between October 7th and 28th, more than 7,703 Palestinians in Gaza and 1,400 Israelis have been killed. In Gaza, this includes 3,500 children killed and 45 families who have been wiped out entirely. The current situation demands a prompt response from philanthropy. Since November of 2021, after the designations against Palestinian organizations, funders and donors have gathered to build collective actions in solidarity with Palestine through the ad-hoc group — Funders for Palestine.

We invite those in philanthropy to join us for this webinar to learn from movement partners in Palestine about the challenges on the ground and priorities for our solidarity.

Wednesday, November 1 | 8 – 9:30 am PT | 11 am – 12:30 pm ET | 16 – 17:30 CEST

Sponsored by:

Grassroots International, Justice Funders, EDGE Funders Alliance, Neighborhood Funders Group, Funders for Justice, CLIMA Fund, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Women Donors Network, Human Rights Funders Network, Purposeful, Resource Generation, Prospera, Funding Freedom.
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In an update this week, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, fro

In an update this week, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, from our grantee @palestinianmedicalreliefsoc, lays out the level of devastation the Israeli military has enacted: without fuel, all hospitals in Gaza will no longer operate.

This compounds upon other grave facts of the current moment: more than 51% of homes have been completely destroyed. Over 7,028 Palestinians have been murdered — including more than 2,704 children.

The PMRS is taking heroic actions in Gaza, the West Bank, and across Palestine to center life — running community paramedic teams into destroyed buildings, driving ambulances to hospitals to save lives, and speaking out internationally to show the reality on the ground.
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In a follow-up from our previous post, we want to

In a follow-up from our previous post, we want to further reflect on the work of groups like the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (@gcmhpmedia).

For almost two decades we’ve accompanied the work of GCMHP in Palestine, as they’ve supported Palestinians navigating the ongoing trauma of occupation and settler-colonial violence.

They’ve run 24-hour mental health hotlines during past Israeli assaults. They run three community mental health centers. And they see more than 50,000 patients every year, with particular support to women and people with disabilities (disabilities often caused by Israeli military violence).

The World Health Organization had estimated that 20 percent of Gazans may have developed mental health conditions from Israel’s 2014 assault. Gazans have also dealt with more persistent stressors — weekly sniper fire near the wall, 20-hour rolling blackouts, lack of water and sanitation, and a 60-percent unemployment rate for 15- to 29-year-olds.

Back in 2018, Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei visited our offices and told us: “We have a proverb, ‘when you’re in hard times, a good friend is there’ Really, that’s how we feel about Grassroots.”

GCMHP and all Palestinians are facing some of their most difficult and traumatic times in years. Let’s come together to stand with them, as they address the trauma and heal with justice.

Donate now: grassrootsonline.org/palestine
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We met Aisha from the Gaza Community Mental Health

Over 2 million Palestinian people trapped in Gaza

Over 2 million Palestinian people trapped in Gaza are facing genocide in real time, as the Israeli government bombs them and uses starvation as a weapon of war. Your solidarity is vital.

Take action by calling your Congressperson to demand a ceasefire, humanitarian aid, and a stop to US military aid to Israel: act.uscpr.org/a/callforgaza

Check out this toolkit for other ways to stop the genocide: bit.ly/StopGazaGenocide
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Dr. Raji Sourani, from our partner @pchrgaza, spok

Dr. Raji Sourani, from our partner @pchrgaza, spoke to @democracynow last week about the current situation in Gaza.

We haven't heard from PCHR in two days. We are hoping they and our other partners in Gaza are safe and we hear from them soon.

Paul Murphy from Ireland’s @people_before_profit

Paul Murphy from Ireland’s @people_before_profit makes it plain. The context is the occupation, the apartheid state, the colonization of Palestinian lands. The ending of the violence can only mean the ending of these things.

See our past posts and our linktree for ways to take action.

Today is World Food Day, and in Gaza, starvation i

Today is World Food Day, and in Gaza, starvation is being used as a weapon against a whole population. And it’s not just Israel’s complete and total blockade, preventing food and water from getting in.

Some of the first bombs Israel launched last week struck Gaza’s beaches, decimating fleets of fishing boats in one fell swoop.

This summer, our staff visited fisherfolk on the coast of Gaza. We have supported them over the years as they and their boats have continually been attacked by the Israeli navy. Now, they are facing total devastation.

As one fisherfolk organizer messaged us, struggling to find Internet service amid the bombs, “The smell of death is omnipresent.”

Donate now to our Palestine Emergency Fund to support organizations of fisherfolk, medical providers, and human rights workers in Palestine: grassrootsonline.org/palestine
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Time is running out on the Palestinian people in G

Time is running out on the Palestinian people in Gaza, and we need to take action to stop the bombardment.

Our allies in @USCPR have put out this call to action to demand that the US stops arming Israel. Write to your Congresspeople, organize or attend protests locally, and get the word out.

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"Time is running out for the Palestinian people in Gaza.

No fuel.
No power.
No water or food.
Nowhere to escape.

They are living through their own genocide in real time, while the world watches and further dehumanizes them to justify their killings.

Israel's total bombardment of Gaza is directly funded and rubber-stamped by the U.S. government. Billions of our U.S. tax dollars are funding these massacres, and the Biden administration wants to send more weapons and military funding for genocide.

We must do everything in our power to stop it. The U.S. government must #StopArmingIsrael.

Keep your eyes on Gaza. Center the voices of Palestinian people in Gaza. Raise the demand to #StopArmingIsrael.

TAKE ACTION: uscpr.org/StopMassacres
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