Families in Brazil Face Devastating Floods; Social Movements Respond
Given the hardship these families are going through now and for months to come, we are calling upon all people of conscience to take action in solidarity.
Climate Change
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Rooting Climate Justice in Indigenous Resistance
Grassroots International stands with Indigenous movements at the forefront of the global climate justice movement. They are building upon centuries-long struggles for Indigenous sovereignty over land, water and other forms of territory.
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Real Solutions, Not Net Zero: A Global Call for Climate Action
Grassroots International joined over 700 other organizations and movements to call for real solutions to solve climate change — not a continuation of harm dressed up as « net zero » carbon budgeting. Unfortunately, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland...
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Climate Solutions from Soil to Seed
This World Food Day, we uplift the work of social movements to end hunger and cool the planet through agroecology and food sovereignty. We commit to standing with them for the long haul and invite other funders to join us.
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Social Movements Lead Recovery from Devastating Back-to-back Hurricanes in Central America
What is known at the time of writing is that the death toll from Hurricanes Eta and Iota (currently nearing 200) continues to grow, while more than 200,000 are without homes and millions more are impacted by the combined effects of the hurricanes and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Two Hurricanes Hit Mesoamerica — Solidarity Needed!
Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and peasant/small-scale farming communities in Honduras and Guatemala are facing devastating floods from Hurricane Eta and Iota. They’re now losing their homes and hundreds of hectares of crops after an already difficult year. Climate change has driven the...
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New Report Urges U.S. Philanthropy to Invest in Puerto Rico’s Social Movements
The report chronicles deep lessons in transformational change, from Puerto Rico’s social movements which are visionary and oppositional, centering sovereignty and self-governance. For funders who are interested in supporting movements who are building a pathway to a decolonized, thriving and resilient Puerto Rico, this report will provide a helpful roadmap.
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We’re All in the Same Lifeboat Now: Climate Change Comes for Farmers, from Mozambique to Iowa
As Iowa’s own farmers are realizing, climate change rains on them too, in torrents, and it’s only going to get worse. They have a lot to gain by listening to what their fellow flood victims from Mozambique are telling them: Diversify. For our sake and your own.
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Movement in Brazil Speaks out against Amazon Forest Burning
Below is a statement from the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB), first in English then below in Portuguese. A longtime partner of Grassroots International, MAB advocates for the human right to water, land and energy sovereignty, particularly for...
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Contemporary Challenges for the Working Class & Peasantry in Brazil
João Pedro Stedile outlines the issues leading up to the Brazilian coup, life under Bolsonaro's rule, and a vision for a new agrarian program in Brazil.
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Swift Foundation Open Letter: Support for Land Rights Means Support for Grassroots Leadership
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.
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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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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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Corporate Pitches or Real Solutions?: Solidarity 2 Solutions Challenges GCAS
Climate change is disrupting our world and our lives. "Conscientious capitalists" assembled in San Francisco in September to offer false solutions. The grassroots answered on the streets with real ones.
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Agroecology as a Tool of Sovereignty and Resilience in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria
Civil Eats spoke to two Organización Boricuá members—Dalma Cartagena and Jesús Vázquez—at last week’s U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance national assembly in Bellingham, Washington, where the group won the Food Sovereignty Prize.
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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.