In September, 700+ social movement representatives from 100+ countries came together in Sri Lanka for the Third Nyeleni Global Forum, charting a path forward for the next 25 years of food sovereignty and a collective agenda toward broader systemic transformation.

In October, the 6th International Action of the World March of Women culminated with coordinated mobilizations across regions, denouncing rising authoritarianism and militarism and uplifting alternatives grounded in grassroots feminisms.

In November, tens of thousands converged for the People’s Summit Towards COP30 in Brazil’s Amazon region in parallel to the UN climate meetings, calling out corporate greenwashing of the intensifying climate crisis and advancing solutions rooted in territory, sovereignty, and justice.

In Haiti, the Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP) took the momentous step of hosting the Caribbean Regional Secretariat of La Vía Campesina for the first time on Haitian soil, highlighting Haitian movements’ many contributions to building food sovereignty amidst multiple crises.

Across West Africa, the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles – West Africa is breathing new life into the World Social Forum (WSF) process through leading a major regional mobilization in defense of land, water, and peasant seeds in preparation for the WSF to be held in Benin in 2026.

In Puerto Rico, the 1st International Climate Brigade of La Via Campesina took place, a landmark event that inaugurated a new strategy of peasant action and solidarity in response to the global climate emergency.

In Palestine, amidst genocide in Gaza and escalated ethic cleansing across the West Bank, grassroots movements have continued the liberatory work of sustaining life, providing medical care, food, and water to fight starvation as a weapon of war and assert self-determination.

In Honduras, social movements from across the region converged for the Third Mesoamerican Meeting of Social Movements, bringing together 300+ delegates from across the region for reflection, debate, and collective organizing around defense of territory and popular democracy.

In Brazil, the Landless Workers Movement (MST), Rede Social, and others celebrated a victory in the struggle for popular agrarian reform when a judge acquitted a group of rural workers who had been wrongfully prosecuted for occupying land in protest of land grabbing, fueling further resistance and mobilizing.

In the US, dozens of partners and allies are  uniting in response to rising authoritarianism, with campaigns around militarism, deprivation of benefits, immigration crack-downs, and more, together with mutual aid projects grounded in principles of liberation.

In November, grassroots organizers from Guatemala and donor activists from the US came together for a solidarity encounter organized through Grassroots International’s Martín-Baró Initiative to honor and uplift practices of healing justice grounded in Indigenous ancestral knowledge as vital to struggles for liberation.

Social movements and funders alike enthusiastically received the Solidarity Philanthropy framework launched by Grassroots International in September, speaking to a need for tools to transform the sector at this critical juncture. (See related media here.)

This fall Grassroots International reached the milestone of moving more than $100 million to social movements across the globe since our founding! In addition to core flexible long-term funding to our movement partners, our Palestine Emergency Fund, Movement Infrastructure Fund, Crisis Response Fund, and Learning Exchange Fund are vehicles for moving money where it is most needed.