La Via Campesina officially launches its new publication “Struggles of La Vía Campesina for Agrarian Reform and the Defense of life, Land and Territories” that argues for a massive change in the current agro-food system.
Grassroots International, along with our allies in the fight for a fair and just food system, have signed a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee, led by Chair Conoway (R-TX). We are asking them to reconsider the current state of our food system and to take steps to address its problems, rather than write policies that condone them.
The new government in Brazil is unrolling austerity policies that are eroding working families’ political gains. In this interview, a member of the MST reflects on the danger and potential of this current moment, highlighting opportunities to build alternatives to capitalism as the current economic system flounders.
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.
In VIIth International Conference of La Via Campesina, built on decades of organizing, offered insight and response to contemporary resource grabs, authoritarian power grabs, violence against women, and the climate and migration crises. By going home to work the land, peasants know they are engaging in one of the most political acts of all: agriculture.
Grassroots International was honored to be in attendance at the VIIth International Conference of La Via Campesina and gathered some of our partners' perspectives and thoughts about the conference and their work in the below photo blog.
A version of this piece originally appeared on the Landless Workers Movement’s website. English translation was done by Grassroots International. Peasants from more than 70 countries will gather in Derio, in the Basque Country, between July 16 and 24, where the...
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.
Over 450 peasant movement representatives from all over the world will gather at the VIIth International Conference of La Via Campesina to continue the struggle against capitalism and to propose concrete ways to build an alternative world based on dignity and Food Sovereignty.
The Peasant Movement of Papaye is leading the way towards a new Haiti centered on food sovereignty and climate justice.
Video about why the US Congress must pass the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act (H.R. 1299)
This interview with Rosalinda Guillen highlights the interlocking destinies of farmers and farmworkers.
Following the brazen murder of activist Berta Cáceres, Grassroots International created an emergency fund and was able to raise over $50,000 for activist movements in Honduras.
Food sovereignty is the major challenge in Palestine. The movement and export restrictions, the long waits while tomatoes and strawberries sour in the hot sun, is 70% better in the West Bank [than in Gaza].
Salah is a 46-year-old human rights defender who was arrested in the middle of the night on October 26, 2016, and remains in prison to this day. We need you to let the Israeli Minister of Justice and the US Human Rights Commission know that the world condemns the ongoing repression of Palestinian human rights defenders and Israel’s use of illegal practices, including the use of administrative detentions and "secret files."
We are meeting with a longtime Grassroots International partner organization, the Union of Agricultural Workers Committee (UAWC). UAWC focuses on building sovereignty for men, women and youth, farmers and the poor.
On the seventh anniversary of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, we honor those who lost their lives in the earthquake, as well as those who lost their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew.
The Women's Empowerment Project is focused on solving the issues of poverty in Palestine by providing women with the proper resources that are necessary to produce and market goods through the formation of local cooperatives.
Some of our partners and allies from Oaxaca, Mexico have written a letter of solidarity addressing the struggles happening here in the United States in the Sioux Nation's territories at Standing Rock, ND. Below is the full letter. The original version of this piece appeared in Espacio Estatal en Defensa del Maíz Nativo de Oaxaca.
“In the end we succeeded. But it cost us six years in jail, and five of my colleagues were assassinated. However we are still here, working, and pushing forward,” said Alfredo Lopez. Alfredo, a well-known and respected community leader, is the vice-president of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), a partner of Grassroots International. OFRANEH organizes with indigenous, Afro-descendant Hondurans (known as Garifunas), whose ancestral territory contains some of the most breathtaking and fertile areas along the Atlantic coast of Honduras.
