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Join the virtual 2023 Food Sovereignty Prize C

Join the virtual 2023 Food Sovereignty Prize Ceremony on Thursday, December 14 at 3:30pm (PST), 4:30pm (MST), 5:30pm (CST), 6:30pm (EST and Haiti time)

Register here (bit.ly/2023fsp) for the virtual event emceed by Darnella Winston of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives

Now in its 15th year, the Food Sovereignty Prize is given annually near World Food Day to a domestic and international organization advancing food sovereignty – the right of all peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their food, fishery, and farming systems. It stands in contrast to the corporate-funded World Food Prize, which perpetuates the myth that society can produce its way out of hunger and the climate crisis with biotechnology and synthetic inputs.

The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (@usfoodsovalliance) has awarded the Food Sovereignty Prize to two outstanding organizations, the Black Dirt Farm Collective (@b_d_f_c), located in Maryland, and Mouvman Peyizan Papay (@mpp_haiti_), based in Haiti. This award is particularly meaningful for MPP at this time, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary amid ongoing political strife, economic depression, and violence in Haiti, prompting an announcement by the UN Security Council to send armed forces into the country.
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#foodsovereignty #foodjustice #gmofree #farming #homestead

We are joining 1000+ foundations and individual do

We are joining 1000+ 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. The temporary pause was not enough - the Israeli military has resumed its bombing of Gaza. 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 and list of signatories at www.funders4ceasefire.org.

#CeasefireNOW #CeasefireForGaza #funders4ceasefire #freepalestine #palestine

This gut-wrenching update from @palestinianmedical

This gut-wrenching update from @palestinianmedicalreliefsoc is a stirring call to action to do all in our power to demand a #ceasefirenow .

Hear Martha Lidia of @sectordemujeres share about

Hear Martha Lidia of @sectordemujeres share about their partnership with Grassroots International to advance grassroots feminisms, one of six interlinked issue areas that ground our work on the journey towards liberation. Sector de Mujeres, based in Guatemala, is a key member of the @worldmarchofwomen, one of Grassroots International's global movement partners.

Support this critical movement work by making an End-of-Year donation at our link in bio or grassrootsonline.org/we
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#solidarity #transfeminism #internationalism #transnational #feminism #liberation

Here are more glimpses into our recent delegation

Here are more glimpses into our recent delegation to Palestine, from the perspective of some of the participants, through these images and the reflections that follow on our blog.

“I was moved by the openness and generosity of people in Palestine, who shared their stories, their dreams, their anger, their outrage, their resistance, and their humanity while living in an apartheid system that seeks to strip it away, and that has been doing so for 75 years...

I am still in a state of shock and despair over how many people in Gaza have been massacred in the recent Israeli attacks — a young man that I sat next to on a bus while we were touring the old city, the photographer who took pictures at the reception organized by our partners to welcome us, and perhaps — I’ll probably never know — some of the children we met on a visit to the Nuseirat Refugee Camp." — Trina

At Grassroots International, we know that the struggle for justice knows no borders. We answer the call of Palestinian movements and our partners to build the necessary bridges together for long-term solutions that can create the conditions for a just peace – an end to apartheid, and to the processes of settler colonialism and militarized siege.

Read more on our photoblog: grassrootsonline.org/learning-hub
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This past summer, a donor/activist delegation visi

This past summer, a donor/activist delegation visited our partners in Palestine. We shared meals, made friends, and learned from amazing people committed to freedom and justice… some of whom were killed in Israeli attacks over the past two months.

“Having the opportunity to visit Palestine was a life-changing experience for me. Moving through the checkpoints, seeing the destruction of property and farmlands by the colonial settlers and Israeli state, and hearing the stories of resistance, hope, and belief for a better future showed me why my activism and hope for the freedom of Black people is linked to a free Palestine.” — J.C.

For today’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we share a photoblog and some reflections from delegates. See all the photos: grassrootsonline.org/learning-hub
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#PalestineSolidarity #palestinesolidarityday #palestine #FreePalestine #PalestineDay #solidarity

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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#ceasefireNOW #ceasefire #Gaza #funders4ceasefire #FreePalestine #palestine

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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