Defending the Amazon Against Destructive Dams
As movements like the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) fight for the future of the Amazon basin, they are fighting for the future of all of us.
As movements like the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) fight for the future of the Amazon basin, they are fighting for the future of all of us.
We are celebrating the movements, their accomplishments, and their political visions as we publicly announce the formalization of our West Africa program.
For the month of April, we’re looking at the connection between the rights of peasants and the health of Mother Earth.
Today, March 14, is the International Day of Struggle Against Dams, and For Rivers, Water and Life. We are sharing a video from our grantee the Movement of People Affected by Dams in Latin America (Movimiento de Afectados por Represas, MAR) as well as their statement for the day.
For January 2022, Grassroots is looking at the year ahead, the social conditions impacting our and our partners’ work, and the stories of resistance and solution-building we’ll be sharing with our supporters.
In an area where air quality are among the worst in the country, RISE St. James is working tirelessly to change the landscape.
While recognizing that with every victory comes a new front of struggle in collective efforts to transform the world, we cap off 2021 with twelve movement successes involving our partners and allies whom we have been honored to accompany.
We’re so grateful for your continued commitment to grassroots movements over the past year. As a token of appreciation, please enjoy this documentary from our board member Sam Vinal. LA LUCHA SIGUE (The Struggle Continues) ~ English Public Screener ~...
Grassroots International partner Comité de Unidad Campesina/the Peasant Unity Committee (CUC) is calling for international solidarity as Maya Q’eqchi’ communities face violent repression following peaceful protests of a mining operation.
Grassroots International has heard from our grantee Movimento Quilombola no Maranhão (MOQUIBOM) about a Quilombola territory in Maranhão, Brazil, that's been invaded by armed men. But the community has resisted.
There are currently 33 proposed laws in Brazil's National Congress threatening Indigenous rights. But Indigenous people are mobilizing with mass resistance.
Grassroots International and 48 other civil society and philanthropic organizations have signed on to a letter to the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD). CBD's use of "conservation" not only will not protect nature. It will lead to more displacement of the very Indigenous communities who are the best stewards for natural land and territory.
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.
In his film “L’Eau Est La Vie (Water is Life),” Grassroots International board member Sam Vinal pieces together firsthand accounts from L’Eau Est La Vie camp organizers as they resist the Bayou Bridge Pipeline.
After five long years, social movements in Honduras are finally getting closer to bringing some justice to the assassination of beloved movement leader Berta Cáceres. Today, David Castillo sits on trial as a key perpetrator of her murder. But the corruption goes much deeper than Castillo. So movements have encamped outside the Supreme Court.
For World Oceans Day, we are taking a look at the ways movements are defending water, oceans and people from the various threats they face.
On this Earth Day, we recognize the links between human rights and the rights of Mother Earth and we stand with those defending land, water, forests and all forms of territory. The following interview was conducted by Real World Radio...