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The Quiet Coup that Could Devastate Human Rights in Guatemala

By: David Mattingly | febrero 20, 2019

For years Guatemala has been a source of inspiration to the international human rights community – an example of how dedicated human rights activists can build justice even upon the ruins of war and mass atrocities. The past ten years have seen a former dictator found guilty of genocide; high-ranking military officials sentenced to lengthy prison terms for their roles in mass atrocities; and indigenous women winning cases against members of the military who sexually enslaved them and robbed them of their land.
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Climate Action Rooted in People, Soil and Mother Earth: Climate Justice

By: Jonathan Leaning | enero 22, 2019

Rather than offering a “solution” to climate change, big hydro-electric dams are false solutions that endanger the planet with the methane emitted and threaten to destroy local ecosystems and cultures, like the Munduruku in Brazil. Thankfully the Munduruku linked up with the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) to resist.
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Five Ways that Funders Approach Climate Philanthropy

By: Lindley Mease, CLIMA Fund | noviembre 7, 2018

These five narrative frames and their embedded assumptions determine how billions of dollars in climate philanthropy and finance are spent. Without mapping and exposing these frames we cannot engage in honest conversation about the role of philanthropists in supporting transformative change.
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Is the Solution to Climate Change Caring More About People?

By: Lindsey Mease, Thousand Currents | Olivia Trabysh, Urgent Action Fund | Allison Davis, Global Greengrants Fund | noviembre 5, 2018

Solidarity to Solutions was a week of uplifting grassroots climate leadership to counter the narrative of the Global Climate Action Summit that corporations and national leaders will move us towards a climate safe, equitable future. Here are some of our reflections, as funders, on navigating those spaces.
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Grassroots Movements Celebrate Building Solutions to Food and Climate Crises

By: US Food Sovereignty Alliance | octubre 15, 2018

The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) honored Black Mesa Water Coalition and Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico on Sunday, October 14, 2018, at the tenth annual Food Sovereignty Prize ceremony on Lummi and Nooksack land in Coast Salish Territory, in the city now called Bellingham, Washington.
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35th Anniversary Panelists Announced

By: Shannon Duncan Bodwell | septiembre 27, 2018

As part of our 35th Anniversary Celebration, we are bringing three powerful and inspiring women to Boston on October 20 for a pre-event panel to discuss how the social movements they are part of are building resistance, resilience and power in their communities.
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Announcing the 2018 Food Sovereignty Prize Honorees

By: US Food Sovereignty Alliance | septiembre 26, 2018

The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance is delighted to announce Black Mesa Water Coalition and Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico are the 2018 Food Sovereignty Prize recipients.
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Berta Caceres Murder Trial Suspended In Face of Due Process Violations

By: COPINH | septiembre 24, 2018

Below is a report from COPINH, a partner of Grassroots International, whose persistence and organizing clarity have demanded justice for Berta Caceres.
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Statement from Mexican Social Movement on Secretary of Agriculture Nominee

By: The Network in Defense of the Native Corn of Oaxaca | julio 20, 2018

Statement about Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s nominee for Secretary of Agriculture from The Network in Defense of the Native Corn of Oaxaca, an alliance that includes two of Grassroots International's partners the Mixe Peoples' Services and the Union of Organizations of the Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca.
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Standing in Solidarity with the Nicaraguan People

By: Jovanna Garcia Soto | mayo 21, 2018

There is a political crisis happening in Nicaragua. Its spark was a set of reforms to social security that President Daniel Ortega’s government put in place to address the budget shortfall facing the country’s social security system, though, at this point, there is a broader set of concerns and threats.
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Illuminated Legacy: Celebrating 500 Years of African & Native People’s Resistance

In celebration of 516th anniversary of Native and African anti-colonial resistance in the Americas, CLACS is hosting a presentation and conversation by notable and renowned leaders Miriam Miranda and Tom Goldtooth. About the speakers: Miriam Miranda is the General Coordinator...
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Imprisoned: Inside the Politics of Control and Resistance

By: Salena Tramel | enero 24, 2018

From Brazilian mass movement building to pinpoint alternatives and retain the countryside, to Honduran reclamation of natural resources through food sovereignty, agroecology, and climate justice, to relentless Palestinian efforts of upholding international law and defending human rights, people are challenging destructive political orders. Doing so is a collective act of resilience and resistance, ‘grabbing back’ in order to move forward in uncertain times.
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Photo Blog: Agroecology Practices and Product Fair

By: Opal Mita | enero 22, 2018

A photo blog of the Agroecology Practices and Product Fair of the “Buen Vivir with Respect” international learning exchange in Chiapas, Mexico.
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Honduras Solidarity Network Responds to US Recognition of Fraudulently Elected Hernandez as President of Honduras

By: Honduras Solidarity Network of North America | diciembre 23, 2017

We reject the deceitful and arrogant position of the US government which ignores the clamor of the Honduran people for democracy and the ongoing deadly violence by the Honduran government against the people.
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During Honduras’ Crisis of Democracy, Celebrating Women’s Leadership There

By: Jonathan Leaning | diciembre 12, 2017

In this short video, you can hear the words of three important leaders from Honduras speaking about the situation facing Indigenous peoples and their environments in Honduras: Berta Cáceres (via recorded video), renowned Indigenous rights and environmental leader who was assassinated last year; Miriam Miranda, the well-known Garifuna (Afro-Honduran) leader and advocate; and Bertha Z. Cáceres, daughter of Berta who is herself an outspoken advocate for indigenous and environmental justice.
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Connecting the Local and Global: Lessons in Movement Building from Massachusetts to El Salvador

By: Chris Morrill | noviembre 28, 2017

Social movement activists from El Salvador, Honduras, and the United States gathered in Chelsea, MA November 8th to share lessons amid rising right-wing repression. The event featured Gaspar Sánchez from COPINH, a Grassroots International Partner.
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Honduran Leaders Miriam Miranda and Berta Zúñiga Cáceres Speak Out

By: Carol Schachet | noviembre 27, 2017

Earlier this year, two powerful women shared their stories of struggle, community and resistance to violence, repression and injustice. The video below features their conversation with Grassroots International’s Solidarity Program Officer for Latin America, Jovanna Garcia Soto, during a standing room only event at NYU in July 2017.
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Lessons from the Grassroots of Honduras & El Salvador

Join us as we welcome Gaspar Sánchez and Norma Romas for a discussion on «Resisting the Right-Wing Offensice against Land and Identity: Lessons from the Grassroots of Honduras and El Salvador.» Gaspar Sánchez has served as the Sexual Diversity &...
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Honduran Activists Speak at New York City Event

By: Hilda Vega | julio 31, 2017

For Miranda and Zúñiga, we can reconnect and advance the legitimacy of human rights by identifying the ‘monster’ created by the collaboration of power-holders such as the military, corporations, governments, and organized crime entities (especially those involved in perpetuating the drug war). They said we must call these threats by name, and work together across issues, movements, and spaces.
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VIIth International Conference, La Via Campesina: Euskal Herria Declaration

By: La Via Campesina | julio 25, 2017

The Euskal Herria Declaration, created by delegates of La Via Campesina at the VIIth International Conference, outlines three points of organizing of the global peasant movement.
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