Solidarity Notes May 2022: Solidarity Knows No Borders
The stories in this issue of Solidarity Notes illustrate a tenet central to all of Grassroots International’s work: true solidarity knows no borders.
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Solidarity Notes (formerly named Insights), the print newsletter of Grassroots International, features stories, photos and analysis from Grassroots and our partners in the global movement for social justice. Solidarity Notes is printed twice each year.
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Solidarity Notes, October 2021: Food Sovereignty
We are pleased to share this issue of Solidarity Notes featuring some of the courageous work of our partners to bring food sovereignty from vision to reality.
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Solidarity Notes, April 2021: Just Recovery and Grassroots Feminisms
While the transition from 2020 to 2021 may show some glimmers of hope, the issues defining 2020 have not gone anywhere. No one knows that better than the social movements who are consistently the first responders to crisis while continuously pushing forward their transformative visions.
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Solidarity Notes, October 2020: COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter
In this issue of Solidarity Notes, you can find stories of Grassroots International partners facing down disasters and building real solutions.
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Solidarity Notes, March 2020: Thirsting for Justice and Water Rights
In this issue, you’ll read about how our partners in Haiti and Palestine have built water cisterns, wells and pipelines—addressing the needs of the people that local governments have failed to meet—and how Garifuna communities in Honduras are winning back...
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Solidarity Notes, October 2019: Creating Alternatives
In this issue of Solidarity Notes you’ll learn about how Grassroots International’s partners and the movements they are part of are creating alternatives to combat injustice around the world.
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Solidarity Notes, Spring 2019: Grassroots Feminisms
In this issue of the newly named newsletter, Solidarity Notes, we feature a few examples of grassroots feminisms from the Caribbean.
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Insights Fall 2018: The Migration Issue
This issue of Insights celebrates the grassroots movements and organizations engaged in claiming their rights to land and home, as well as the communities and movements working every day to tear down walls — both physical and political.
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Insights Fall 2017: Bolstering Human Rights and Recovery Efforts
In this issue of Insights, you will read stories of women on the frontlines of protecting people and the planet and how disaster relief and recovery efforts must come from the ground-up.
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Insights Spring 2017: Stepping Up Support for Climate Justice, Initial Grants, Seeds of Hope
Through the Climate Justice Initiative campaign (CJI), Grassroots International is raising money to invest in community-led programs that boost climate resilience and provide critical support to movements that are leading the charge for climate justice. Learn more about what the CJI supports!
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Insights Fall 2016: Creole Seeds, School Lunches and A Farmers Market
The MCP’s Creole Seeds Project seeks to rescue, reproduce and distribute heirloom (aka Creole) bean, corn and rice seeds that have been locally cultivated by generations of farmers for resiliency, adaptability, taste and appearance.
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Insights Spring 2016: Women in West Africa say «We are the Solution!»
Insights Spring 2016: Women in West Africa say «We are the Solution!» A new colonization is afoot in Africa. It’s a violent usurpation of lands and livelihoods, being perpetrated under the guise of agricultural development….Yet the people of these nations...
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Insights Fall 2015: A Voice from Honduras Cries Out for a Better Future, Climate Justice
Last year, thousands gathered in New York City for the People’s Climate Justice Summit. Crowds swelled with energized, committed people, ready for action. One of those people was Miriam Miranda, whose words rang out over the murmuring masses: “What responsibility...
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Insights Spring 2015: Farmers Share Knowledge, Seeds, Experience for Sustainable Agriculture
“Peasant farmers don’t produce commodities, they produce food. Peasant farming is the farming of hope.” That’s what Grassroots International’s partner in Brazil, Valdir Misnerovicz recently told us during a learning exchange. Grassroots International has played a critical role in standing...
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Insights Fall 2014: Exposing the «Green Revolution» in West Africa
Farmers have worked the rugged land in Western Africa for generations, moving seasonally from field to forest for food and livelihood. While life was never easy, the community worked together, in harmony with their surroundings, to provide for themselves and...
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Insights Winter 2014: Promoting Seeds Sovereignty; Fighting for the Right to Seeds
As people who care about the planet and about those most vulnerable to hunger, we need to ask some serious questions: What is the most effective, ecological and humane way to feed the world? How can farmers sustain themselves, their...