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Somber Commemorations in Gaza Fuel Movement Building

By: Salena Tramel | June 23, 2017

In Palestine, the 50-year anniversary of Israeli occupation and decade of near-total blockade in Gaza is a time of looking back on difficult historical moments in which rights enjoyed in most parts of the world vanished. At the same time, it is an opportunity to look forward to a future in which they will be restored and advanced. Even though states and political parties have continually neglected such a political project, social justice movements inside and outside of Palestine are acting as its guardians.
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Hunger Strike Over, the Work to Free Palestinian Prisoners Continues

By: Christy Pardew | June 1, 2017

Abdul-Razeq is the Administrative Director of Grassroots International's partner organization, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees. He was arrested by Israeli forces at midnight on May 24 from his home, in front of his family. Abdul-Razeq was brought to an Israeli jail where he is still being held under administrative detention.
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VIDEO: Settlements Dumping Toxic Waste in the Jordan Valley

By: Christy Pardew | May 16, 2017

MA’AN Development Center details in their latest video (below) how an Israeli company is dumping toxic waste from Israeli settlements into Jordan Valley and turning it into compost which it then sells to unsuspecting Palestinian farmers. The toxic compost damages crops and poisons the soil.
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TIAA Campaign Update: Momentum Builds Towards a Land Grab-Free Policy Shift

By: Grassroots Staff | April 24, 2017

Over 100,000 people, including thousands of TIAA holders, have taken action demanding that TIAA respect small farmers as part of our Campaign to Get TIAA Out of Forests and Farmland. Learn how you can take action today!
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Commemoration of Palestinian Land Day

By: Eric Niermeyer | March 30, 2017

Palestinian Land Day serves both to commemorate the historical events of March 30, 1976 and to draw attention to the struggles that Palestinians still face because of Israeli aggression. After the calamitous wars of 1948 and 1967 robbed Palestinians of...
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Celebrating and Funding Women’s Leadership Around the World

By: Lydia Simas | March 10, 2017

We support projects that promote women’s leadership and that lift up the struggles of indigenous and peasant women around the world. In celebration of International Women’s Day (and every day!), here are some of the projects we are proud to have supported recently…
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Climate Change and Economic Challenges in Palestine

By: Alice Rothchild | January 31, 2017

Food sovereignty is the major challenge in Palestine. The movement and export restrictions, the long waits while tomatoes and strawberries sour in the hot sun, is 70% better in the West Bank [than in Gaza].
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Demand Justice for Palestinian Human Rights Defender

By: Shannon Duncan Bodwell | January 28, 2017

Salah is a 46-year-old human rights defender who was arrested in the middle of the night on October 26, 2016, and remains in prison to this day. We need you to let the Israeli Minister of Justice and the US Human Rights Commission know that the world condemns the ongoing repression of Palestinian human rights defenders and Israel’s use of illegal practices, including the use of administrative detentions and "secret files."
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For the Love of the Land: Building Food Sovereignty in Palestine

By: Alice Rothchild | January 27, 2017

We are meeting with a longtime Grassroots International partner organization, the Union of Agricultural Workers Committee (UAWC). UAWC focuses on building sovereignty for men, women and youth, farmers and the poor.
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Results to Celebrate in 2016

By: Jonathan Leaning | December 28, 2016

With the generous support of our donors, Grassroots International feels honored to have bolstered hands-on solutions to some of the most critical challenges we face: hunger, violations of human rights, climate change and economic disparity. At this moment, we take a moment to applaud some of the exceptional achievements from the past year.
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Palestinian Women Develop Cooperatives and Self-Determination

By: Christina Obolenskaya | December 5, 2016

The Women's Empowerment Project is focused on solving the issues of poverty in Palestine by providing women with the proper resources that are necessary to produce and market goods through the formation of local cooperatives.
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Insights Fall 2016: Creole Seeds, School Lunches and A Farmers Market

The MCP’s Creole Seeds Project seeks to rescue, reproduce and distribute heirloom (aka Creole) bean, corn and rice seeds that have been locally cultivated by generations of farmers for resiliency, adaptability, taste and appearance.
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Take Action

Knowing the truth is one thing. Doing something about it is another. We invite you to do something by becoming an activist for food sovereignty and the human right to land, water and food. Current actions: Defend Indigenous Activist and...
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Divestment an Appropriate Response to Israel’s Treatment of Palestinians

By: Alice Rothchild | May 24, 2016

Portland is hosting an event [the week of May 9, 2016] that could have a significant impact on the search for Middle East peace. If the United Methodist Church General Conference votes to divest from companies that profit from Israel's occupation, all the mainstream Protestant churches in the U.S. will have taken a principled stand for Palestinian freedom through boycott and divestment, joining the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the United Church of Christ and others.
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Celebrating Mothers from the Movements

By: Johanna Kougbeadjo | May 6, 2016

This Mother’s Day we celebrate three women who find the courage to overcome the great adversity they face as they work to improve the lives of their families and of their communities. Juslene, Esperanza and Samiha are three inspiring mothers who, working with Grassroots International’s partners in Haiti, Honduras and Palestine, are key leaders within their communities.
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Troubled Waters: Fact Sheet on Water Grabs in Palestine

Land and water are at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories are portrayed as a region where water is scarce and where innovation has enabled Israelis to “turn the desert green,” the truth is far...
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Stolen Harvest: Occupation and Palestinian Olive Trees

Olives and olive oil are fundamental to Palestinian history, economy, subsistence, and culture. Olive trees symbolize Palestinian steadfastness and are deeply valued for their ability to thrive and send down deep roots in land where water is hard to come...
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Fishing for Justice: A Fact Sheet About Fishing in the Gaza Strip

Imagine fishers heading out to sea on a beautiful day, ready for a hard day of work to support their families. They might face challenges – a poor catch, storms, not enough buyers – but ordinarily their job is fairly straightforward. Now...
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Gaza Redux: Déjà vu in Occupied Palestinian Territory

By: Salena Tramel | July 21, 2014

The names of four children jutted out from my computer’s screen like daggers on the list of the dead by name as I refreshed it. Memories of children laughing while flying kites on a beach in Gaza flooded my mind. Are these the same Bakr children I knew, and are they now among the 211 dead in Gaza?

Of course it doesn’t matter if I heard the laughter of Ahed (10), Zakaria (10), Mohammed (11), and Ismail (9) when I spent time with the Bakr family known so well in Gaza’s fishing community. It matters that their parents and loved ones knew their laughter by heart, and will likely spend a lifetime trying to recall the innocent ring of it.
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Homes and Lives Shattered in Palestine – the story of Mahmoud Nimer al-Bahtetee

By: Claire Gilbert | October 29, 2013

The narrative below is the second in a series of three stories documented by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), a Grassroots International partner since 1996.
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