Join Us in Palestine and Learn from the Frontlines! Deepen your solidarity with our Palestinian partners at this critical moment. The delegation will be made up of long-time and new donors, philanthropic advisors, grassroots organizers, and other allies, along with...
Peasant, Indigenous, and feminist movements challenged false solutions and greenwashing at the conference while offering up real solutions coming from those most impacted by the climate crisis.
Following tireless community organizing led by Rise St. James, residents of St. James Parish, Louisiana, have successfully stopped the development of what would have been the largest methanol factory in North America.
For the month of April, we’re looking at the connection between the rights of peasants and the health of Mother Earth.
As we celebrate Earth Day today, let us celebrate the Indigenous movements at the center of defending the Earth — movements like our partner COPINH, The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras.
In an area where air quality are among the worst in the country, RISE St. James is working tirelessly to change the landscape.
Kebetkache, an eco-feminist movement in Nigeria and Grassroots International grantee, has long waged a struggle to defend water and the communities that depend on it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
More than 50 Brazilian organizations and social movements working on issues related to the environment, human rights, workers' rights, indigenous peoples and traditional peoples and communities have filed a "Letter in defense of the historic position of Brazil on forest offsets " with the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is in reaction to an attempt to enable the use of forests in offsets, a measure seen as a false solution to the challenge of climate change.
If you don’t follow investment trends, you may not know that one of the hottest investment opportunities in recent years is land, specifically farmland.
We invite you to join us for an evening with internationally renowned Honduran Indigenous rights leaders Miriam Miranda and Bertha Zúniga Cáceres on Wednesday, July 12 at 6:30 PM at New York University. Please RSVP today. Join Miriam Miranda and Bertha Zúniga...
The Guardian recently reported that international investors plan to pull $44 million in funding from the Agua Zarca dam megaproject in Honduras—a project opposed by Indigenous and social movements for years. According to COPINH, however, investors have not yet withdrawn their funding for the dam.
The Brazilian political crisis and ensuing violence have intensified rapidly since the institutional coup of August 31, 2016. At Grassroots, we are receiving regular reports from our partners in Brazil listing incidents of attacks, arrests and even assassinations of land rights activists in a wave of right-wing aggression
On May 10, hundreds of community members, climate justice supporters, and grassroots organizations gathered with Grassroots International and the Boston Public Library to share stories and hear words of wisdom from international Climate Justice leaders.
