Lift Sanctions, Save Lives
Grassroots International joined dozens of other civil society groups to demand the United States lift sanctions against other countries amid the pandemic.
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Patriotic Forum Spells Out Challenges and Opportunities for Haiti’s Future
The Patriotic Forum gathered at the Lakay Center in Papaye to discuss the major problems facing Haiti and charted a vision for future organizing.
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Court Suspends Eviction of Landless Workers Movement Encampment
The Court of Justice of São Paulo (TJSP) suspended for 90 days the order of repossession of the area including the Marielle Vive! encampment organized by Grassroots International's Brazilian partner the Landless Workers Movement (MST).
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Garifuna Face Attack, Contact Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
We have been receiving on-the-ground updates from OFRANEH about the most recent wave of violence, oppression and forced eviction they are facing. Narco-traffickers have invaded Vallecito, an important home for many Garifuna.
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Solidarity with Border Agricultural Workers Project
We join our allies in signing-on to this powerful statement around the wave of white supremacist attacks from El Paso to Mississippi. We also lift up the struggles facing our BEAI Fund grantee the Border Agricultural Workers Project as they mourn the loss of loved ones.
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Growing Sustainable Food Systems
Grassroots International supports agroecology (farming methods rooted in traditional food growing knowledge) to counter the global dominance and damage of plantation-style agriculture.
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Building Powerful Movements
Around the world, women, Indigenous People and youth have bravely united in ever-larger and more powerful movements and coalitions.
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What is the Ongoing Nakba?
An educational statement created by the Nakba Day organizing group in Boston (of which Grassroots International was a part) that provides background information to help frame the conditions in Gaza leading up to the protest.
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Honduras: US Outrage Sparked at Risk of Election Theft: Rights groups issue a joint statement; rally to pressure US, Honduras governments for transparency
Outraged at the possibility of the theft of Honduras’ election by the discredited current administration, US rights groups are rallying to urge the US to press Honduras for electoral transparency.
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Honduran Election Must Not Be Stolen, Warns US Human Rights Group: Widespread Violence Feared
Amid initial indications that the Honduran opposition presidential candidate has received enough votes to defeat the ruling National Party candidate, international election monitors and civil society groups are reporting violence and strong indications of fraud during the vote count following the November 26 election.
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National Call to Action for a Just Recovery in Puerto Rico
The Climate Justice Alliance calls for A National Day of Action on Wednesday, October 11th, to demand that Congress pass an immediate federal aid package designed for the Just Recovery and Resilient Rebuild of Puerto Rico. The relief package must include debt relief, the repeal of the Jones Act, transparency in distribution of resources, an assessment of infrastructure, and additional provisions detailed in the online petition that will be delivered to U.S. representatives the day of the mass actions.
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Now the Sioux Must Battle Big Oil
Residents of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North and South Dakota say they were never consulted about an oil pipeline. Now they’re fighting back.
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5 Food Systems Lessons the U.S. Can Learn from Africa
As food activists work to localize food systems in the United States, small farmers who sell their food locally still produce around 80 percent of the food in sub-Saharan Africa. But that does not mean that farmers and food activists on the African continent can be complacent. Quite the opposite.
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Changing Haiti with PAPDA’s Ricot Jean-Pierre
No social and political changes can be achieved without the men and women who dedicate their lives to the improvement of their communities' living conditions. Ricot Jean-Pierre is one of them. As the program director of our partner the Platform to Advocate Alternative Development in Haiti (PAPDA), Ricot works restlessly to better the lives of Haitians and the country itself – a fight he started at a very young age. Ricot lived his early years under the violence of the Duvalier dictatorship. Very close friends of his and family members including his father directly experienced violence and repression.
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Peanuts and Protest in Haiti Minimize US Surplus Dumping Scheme
Our partner PAPDA joined a delegation of organizations for a meeting on June 29, 2016 with high-level members of the Prime Minister Cabinet and the Minister of Agriculture in Haiti. They discussed the reaction to a letter sent by dozens of NGOs, including Grassroots International, on May 27 to the USDA and USAID calling for the cancellation of the planned USDA shipment of 500 metric tons of peanuts to Haiti.