After graduate fellow Nicholas Johnson and Solidarity Program Officer Mina Remy attended the "Water Is a Human Right" summit, they visited the front lines in Nigeria. Nicholas describes the contamination these grassroots communities are facing, and the resistance they are waging.
With a broken heart but whole spirit, I remember the names of some of our friends, colleagues, allies and partners who have left us all too soon. They join the host of ancestors urging me onward, because the journey toward justice is not yet finished.
Our graduate fellow Nicholas Johnson writes about what he witnessed in Nigeria. Nicholas provides context for the current water justice struggles in the country and recounts the national “Human Right to Water” summit.
A philanthropic friend of Grassroots International, the Swift Foundation published an open letter that brings both clarity and depth in speaking out against the underlying problems driving the commodification of nature and the displacement of Indigenous Peoples.
As we stand in solidarity with Palestinians this Land Day, let’s also hold our own government and industries accountable for the suffering and human rights violations they are enabling. And let's remember the courage and creativity to transform weapons of death into beacons of life, on canister at a time.
In January 2019, Grassroots International Solidarity Program Officer Mina Remy and our graduate fellow Nicholas Johnson visited Nigeria. The second of the two-part photo-blog series looks at environmental justice struggles at the grassroots.
On January 25, 2019, the second largest collapse of tailings dams in the world devastated Brumadinho, Brazil. This was a tragedy that didn’t have to happen.
The fact that it was International Women's Day when someone chose to break into the offices of Sector de Mujeres is not lost on anyone who is paying attention. The women consider the office break-in to be an intimidation attempt.
A new report from the CLIMA Fund uplifts the solutions that have too often been excluded from climate philanthropy, yet have great potential for scaled impact on the most urgent crisis of our time.
Around the world, these women are taking the patriarchy to task, while healing the environment – all the time building the movement for grassroots feminism. Today, International Women’s Day, is a time for protest, organizing, and celebration.
Just like the World March of Women's contingent in January's Women's March, you can build grassroots feminism in your community this March 8th. Watch this video to learn more.
We continue to stand in solidarity with the Guatemalan communities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc in their peaceful resistance to the Progreso VII Derivada gold project.
In January 2019, Grassroots International attended Nigeria’s National Summit on Water as a Human Right, and spent a few extra days witnessing grassroots resistance. This photoblog, the first in a two-part series, looks at the first half of our trip: the summit itself.
An analysis of the current crisis in Haiti written by our very own supporter in the struggle, Gina Athena Ulysse.
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.
We received the following letter from our partner the Landless Workers Movement (MST) as they reflect on their 35-year history and their commitment to continuing the struggle for justice in Brazil.
A Brazilian babaçu nut harvester and community leader told us about some of the accomplishments of her community and big challenges.
A look at the successes Grassroots International and our partners have had in 2018 — including a dramatic increase in our solidarity and impact.
The Women's March, #MeToo, and Time's Up movements have grown in the United States over the last few years. Grassroots International partner the World March of Women is in complete solidarity with these movements — while seeking to bring in a deep, global vision.
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.
