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Grassroots International Rated 4-Stars by Charity Navigator for Second Consecutive Year

By: Carol Schachet | August 5, 2008

Grassroots International is delighted to announce that we have earned across-the-board top ratings from Charity Navigator, America's leading independent charity evaluator, for a second consecutive year.
This 4-Star distinction, along with the coveted seal from the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance, recognize Grassroots as a top performer among non-profit organizations. The Better Business Bureau is a well-known and highly respected monitor of business practices, while Charity Navigator is a widely relied-upon source of information for potential donors, providing objective evaluations of the financial health of U.S. non-profits.
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Playing the Blame Game: Who is Behind the Food Crisis?

By: Carol Schachet | July 25, 2008

Research presented in the Oakland Institute's recent publication "The Blame Game: Who is behind the World Food Crisis?" pokes holes through the myth that the "economic prosperity" experienced by an emerging minority in India has been a major contributor to the dramatic increase in global food prices.
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Rocks in the Sun

By: Carol Schachet | July 21, 2008

Haiti's fight for basic human rights often finds its way into the Kreyol language's vivid and plentiful proverbs. Sak vid pa kanpe means that a hungry person cannot do anything – literally, an empty sack cannot stand up. Of the many root causes of the current food crisis that is rendering the poor majority of Haitians unable to feed them themselves, the lack of water rights is of utmost significance.

A focus group of Haitian woman in Port-de-Paix concluded that the water problem is what often causes massive hunger. They reported that the water problem is causing "people to die in its hands."
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West Bank Wall Elevates Barrier to Water Access for Palestinians

By: Carol Schachet | July 20, 2008

The construction of the Wall by the Israeli government in the West Bank is viewed by many as the third and final wave of expulsion of the Palestinian people, following the forced Palestinian exodus in 1948 in the wake of Israel's independence, and then the 1967 Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. Perhaps, more than any other element of the occupation, the Wall illustrates the severity of the Palestinian situation and the urgency for access to resources, including water.
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Americas Farm Bill

By: Carol Schachet | July 1, 2008

The tidal wave of American interest in local, sustainable agriculture, and the waves of protest around the world over staggering food prices, seem to have washed over the heads of most members of Congress without them even noticing. The 2008 Farm Bill proves it.
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The Hidden Face of the Global Food Crisis

By: Carol Schachet | June 25, 2008

About 1000 small farmers of the International movement Via Campesina, men and women from 25 different countries and 12 Indonesian provinces gathered today in Jakarta to claim the right to farm their land, the right to eat and to feed their families and communities.
They opened a five-day International Conference on Peasant Rights aiming at attracting world attention to the fate of small producers. Peasants represent almost half of the world population and are the backbone of the food system. However, their rights are systematically violated.
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Speculators and Traders Gambling on Food

By: Carol Schachet | June 5, 2008

There's a scary betting game going on. Here's how it goes: Speculators bet that food prices go up (and drive them up in the process). If they're right, they reap a profit. If they're right, the price of food for families skyrockets.
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The World Food Crisis in the Palestinian Context: Rising Prices under Occupation and a Call to Action

By: Carol Schachet | June 5, 2008

As the heads of states meet with the Secretary General in Rome this week to discuss world food security in the light of climate change and bioenergy, Palestinians are experiencing a different dimension of the food crisis. Food is of the most basic of all human rights, and in much of the Palestinian context, is being systematically denied to civilians.
Our partners in the West Bank and Gaza recently released a call to action, which we have reproduced here. We have also posted a copy of the open letter to the conference organizers referenced below.
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International Water Warrior Maude Barlow Receives Canada’s Highest Environmental Acheivement Award

By: Carol Schachet | May 29, 2008

Maude Barlow – world-renowned water activist and author of Blue Gold – was recently awarded the Citation of Lifetime Achievement by the Canadian Environment Awards. Grassroots International was honored to have her as our keynote speaker for our 20th anniversary celebration, at which time we awarded her a global activist prize.
I'd like to take a minute to congratulate Maude, and to encourage you to read about her achievements over the past two decades. Thank you Maude for your inspiring leadership in the water justice movement and for struggling tirelessly (and joyfully) for water for all!
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Gaza from Below

By: Carol Schachet | May 2, 2008

No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.
- Fourth Geneva Convention, article 33
Nonviolence. Opportunity. Innovation. In the wake of the recent escalating violence and food insecurity in Gaza, our grassroots partners have redoubled their quest for social change and sustainability in one of the most troubled places in the world. We are humbled by their laudable tenacity in the face of massive obstacles.
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Call to Action: Oppose Massive Increase In Military Aid to Israel

By: Carol Schachet | April 9, 2008

President Bush's FY2009 budget request to Congress includes $2.55 billion in military aid to Israel, a 9% increase from 2007. This increase is the first installment of a ten-year plan to increase military aid to Israel by 25%, totaling $30 billion over the next decade.
Call the Senate Appropriations Committee today, April 9, at 202-224-7363 and let them know that you oppose this budget request. It violates the U.S. Arms Export Control and Foreign Assistance Acts. Click here to act now.
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Agribusinesses Abandon Agricultural Pact, Hurting Small Farmers

By: Carol Schachet | April 7, 2008

Food activists, scientists, and representatives from governments and corporations around the world will begin meeting in Johannesburg on Monday, April 7th, to finalize a report on how the world can tackle the deeply interrelated issues of hunger, poverty, power, and global agriculture.

But global agribusinesses Monsanto, Syngenta, and BASF have refused to participate. They complained recently that genetic modification of agriculture was under-valued by the 4,000 scientists and experts working on the report, and that the report should not have stated that biotechnology in agriculture poses risks.
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A Plan for a New Food and Agriculture Agenda in 2008

By: Carol Schachet | April 2, 2008

ETC Group, a Grassroots International ally based in Canada, has released a report highlighting the failure of governments to manage their multilateral food and agriculture agencies.

ETC is calling on the United Nations to gather the leaders of such agencies to hammer out a plan for the future. It says the meeting is necessary because of numerous threats facing the world's agricultural systems:
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A Message for Monsanto: Beet It!

By: Carol Schachet | March 18, 2008

It's safe to say that beets have never been a hot topic in the U.S. financial world.
But now a group of more than 300 socially-concerned institutional investors is asking consumers to urge major food corporations not to buy genetically engineered sugar beets. The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) has launched a web site that helps consumers write effective letters to corporations like Kraft and Heinz about their desire not to see Monsanto's soon-to-be-released "Roundup Ready" sugar beets used in food products.
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Biofuels in Brazil: A Trojan Horse and a Rallying Cry

By: Carol Schachet | March 10, 2008

Biofuels can be effective disguises. They disguise the unseemly profiteering of agribusinesses that earn millions from corn- and sugarcane-based ethanol. They disguise the power-grabbing of governments that use biofuels as political pawns. And they disguise the suffering of land and people in the Global South whenever they are touted as "safe green technologies."

A new report from the Oakland Institute and Terra de Direitos lifts these disguises and documents how sugarcane grown for ethanol in Brazil has become the country's international bargaining chip, yet has also mobilized millions of Brazilians--and people throughout Latin America--against the growth of monocultures for export as fuel.
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Brazilian Peasant Women Embody the Spirit of International Women’s Day

By: Carol Schachet | March 7, 2008

In celebration of International Womens Day on Saturday, we at Grassroots would like to honor 900 peasant women who bravely seized and occupied a vast corporate tree farm in southern Brazil that they believe symbolizes the type of development that is destroying their communities and Mother Earth itself.
It could not have been easy.
The women, members of the Via Campesina, staged thetakeover just before dawn on Tuesday, then proceeded to cut down the corporations trees and plant native trees in their place. At least 50 women were injured by rubber bullets and other material when police forcefully removed them from the 5,200-acre farm. Hundreds of them were reportedly arrested.
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Free-Trade Failures from Canada to Colombia

By: Carol Schachet | March 3, 2008

Free-Trade Failures from Canada to Colombia: Stop SPP and the Colombia FTA
Learn about the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, a "super-NAFTA" package of trade and security initiatives organized behind closed doors between corporate leadership and the Mexican, Canadian, and US governments, and the Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (Colombia FTA), a "free-trade" deal built on a history of neoliberal repression of workers rights.
Find out how you can stop these undemocratic pro-corporate giveaways, and protect the rights of people, communities, and ecosystems threatened by "free trade."
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A Response to the Global Food Prices Crisis

By: Carol Schachet | February 29, 2008

Consumers around the world have seen the prices of staple food dramatically increasing over the past months, creating extreme hardship especially for the poorest communities. Over a year, wheat has doubled in price, maize is nearly 50% higher than a year ago. However, there is no crisis of production. Statistics show that cereals' production has never been as high as in 2007 (1).
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El Salvador Drops Charges Against “Terrorists” Fighting for Water Rights

By: Carol Schachet | February 29, 2008

They were peacefully protesting water privatization in a corner of their home country, El Salvador -- until the Salvadoran government arrested them and labeled them "terrorists."

Now, the 13 protestors from Suchitoto are free, following a recent decision by El Salvador's attorney general to drop the terrorism charges. Prosecutors were unable to substantiate the charges under the "Special Law Against Acts of Terrorism" -- a 2006 law that the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador strongly supported. (The ruling party in El Salvador is a close ally of the U.S.)
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Who Owns The Water?

By: Carol Schachet | February 26, 2008

Please join Grassroots International, the Jamaica Plain Forum and Food and Water Watch for a conversation with special guest Maude Barlow, a leading global water activist, and author of Blue Covenant.

Please join us for this free community event!

Location:
First Church in Jamaica Plain
6 Eliot St.
Jamaica Plain, MA
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