2018 in Review: Growth of Resistance, Impact
A look at the successes Grassroots International and our partners have had in 2018 — including a dramatic increase in our solidarity and impact.
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Climate Action Rooted in People, Soil and Mother Earth: Climate Justice
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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Tell TIAA to Get Out of the Land Grabbing Business
The major agent of global land grabbing is TIAA (formerly TIAA-CREF), a giant investment firm that manages pension funds for public employees of many respected institutions – municipalities, universities, museums, hospitals, even National Public Radio.
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Five Ways that Funders Approach Climate Philanthropy
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?
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
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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Announcing the 2018 Food Sovereignty Prize Honorees
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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Interview with Ramata Ouedraogo, Farmer with We Are the Solution
Interview with Ramata Ouedraogo, a farmer with Grassroots International partner We Are the Solution.
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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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This Ramadan Season and Beyond, Holding Gaza Close
There are things we can do to support Gaza. We can invest in Palestinian-led sustainable development, and when necessary, humanitarian relief. We can divest from those who profit from Israeli militarization and occupation. We can educate ourselves, and then others, and we can take it to the streets.
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Land Day Marked by Israel’s Killing of Unarmed Palestinians
Grassroots International joins our partners in Palestine and people of conscience around the world in condemning the recent killings and ongoing brutal attacks on unarmed Palestinian protesters by the Israeli military.
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France Declares New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition Failed in Burkina Faso
France declared New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa a failure in Burkina Faso and announced it would withdraw from the Alliance.
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Brazil at the Crossroads: Organizing for Land and Water Rights in Dangerous Times
The second year under Brazil’s parliamentary coup is now underway. Despite the political corruption and backlash against social movements, Grassroots International partners refuse to accept the dismantling of previous gains and are creating new systems to survive.
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Donor-Activist Solidarity Group for Palestine
Are you looking to engage more directly in supporting frontline movements in Palestine? Are you outraged by the atrocities and violence funded by the US government in its support of Israeli settlements and military operations? Do you want to be...
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Imprisoned: Inside the Politics of Control and Resistance
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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Honduras Solidarity Network Responds to US Recognition of Fraudulently Elected Hernandez as President of Honduras
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.