We Denounce the West Bank Annexation
We join our partners and allies to condemn the “Land Theft of the Century” against Palestinians who have lived in the West Bank for generations.
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Palestinian Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives
We need the people in the streets struggling for their rights and humanity that Palestinians are standing strongly with them, we consider their struggles as ours.
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Seeds of Resistance: Palestinian Farmers Fight Against Annexation and Pandemic
The violent Israeli encroachment and annexation of Palestinian land is putting the future of the West Bank and its residents in an extremely vulnerable position.
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Small-scale Agriculture Can Feed Our Countries
As African agriculture faces big challenges, the president of Network of Farmers' Organizations and Agricultural Producers in West Africa (ROPPA) is convinced that the Covid-19 crisis is a window of opportunity.
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Movement Poem: « the tools that those frogs spoke about by the fire »
In a world where there seems to be infinite peoples reclaiming their rebel dignity, reclaiming their collective agency from a corrosive system, what I felt in writing this piece was that sense of grounding and capturing a convergence of people power in my communities back in California and the joy found in Florida those days.
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Africa Says, « I Can’t Breathe »: An African Civil Society Perspective on Systemic Racism
The knee on George Floyd’s neck is the same knee that is on our neck. It is the same knee that justified colonialism in Africa. It is the same knee that sees Africa not for what it has, but for what it's lacking. Those who are putting their knee on our neck look at us as stupid, uncivilized, barbaric, clueless, and disease-ridden, to be controlled and directed by the all-knowing and powerful.
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MST Demands COVID-19 Agrarian Reform
Brazil is facing one of the deadliest and most mismanaged COVID-19 crises in the world. But the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) is demanding emergency reforms to end government inaction and to protect lives, land and communities.
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Black Lives in The Netherlands and Europe
As I watch from here in The Hague everything that is happening in Minneapolis and across the U.S. in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd (and many other Black people), I wanted to express my solidarity, and also...
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Justice for George Floyd and Solidarity in Defense of Black Life
We call for justice for George Floyd and countless others. We stand in solidarity with the struggle to defend Black lives in the US and around the world.
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Webinar Discusses Root Causes, COVID-19 Responses and Next Steps for Social Movements
On May 14 over 110 Grassroots International supporters and activists joined a Zoom call to learn more about how social movements are organizing during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
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Environmental Defender Murdered in Honduras
Presente Edwin Fernández! Edwin provided security in a community where our partner, the Black Fraternal Organization of Hondurans (OFRANEH), is doing COVID relief. He is just one of the many environmental, land and Indigenous rights defenders who have been killed in recent years.
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Dignity over Austerity in Puerto Rico’s Food Sovereignty Movement
There is still much to do, especially at a time in which almost everyone is worried about the impending economic fallout of an uncertain political moment. But as the Puerto Rican food movement looks into the future, Comedores Sociales has a slogan that says it all: ‘We don't eat austerity; we cook dignity.’
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Supporting Community Solutions During Pandemic
We have been awestruck by the generosity of our community of donor-activists and by the resilience of our partners. Together, we are picking up the slack where governments and policies have failed during this pandemic.
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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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An Earth Day Poem: « Her Fire »
Milourdes Augustin, Solidarity Program Officer for Haiti and West Africa, shares a poem for Earth Day. The world is on the brink of a necessary revolution and Mother Earth is on our side.
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Prevent Agribusiness’s Pandemics with Food Sovereignty
April 17th is the International Day of Food sovereignty matters for not only farmers, but for preventing pandemics. Corporate agriculture for profit is putting our health and planet at risk.
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For Coronavirus Patients, MST Offers Training Center as a Field Hospital
Grassroots International has long funded and supported the Landless Workers Movement's Paulo Freire Training Center in Pernambuco, Brazil. The Landless Workers Movement is now opening up the center as a field hospital for coronavirus patients.
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Confront the Pandemic with a Feminist Foreign Policy
Before the COVID-19 pandemic had hit the U.S., 23 women and gender nonconforming organizers from across the United States laid out feminist, antiwar solutions to the crisis.