Support Earthquake Recovery in Puerto Rico
The earthquakes in Puerto Rico demand support for immediate relief, led by the grassroots, and for long-term organizing to demand a just recovery.
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Impeachment by Protest: “Renuncia!”
Puerto Ricans led one of the dozen revolts that took place in 2019, toppling their corrupt governor. Learn the lessons from their struggle straight from the voice of a leading activist, Shariana Ferrer-Núñez of Colectiva.
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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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BEAI Fund Grantees
Since 2017, Grassroots International has been honored to host and manage the BEAI Fund, working closely with the BEAI Fund Advisory Board. The fund supports organizations with approaches that include: mutual aid to meet community needs; addressing impacts of pollution...
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Puerto Rican Resistance Began Long Before Rosselló
In a recent article in Truthout, Yulissa Arce Mendez looks at the recent uprising against Rosselló: a fast-moving fire against long-simmering austerity and colonial violence.
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Solidarity with Border Agricultural Workers Project
We join our allies in signing-on to this powerful statement around the wave of white supremacist attacks from El Paso to Mississippi. We also lift up the struggles facing our BEAI Fund grantee the Border Agricultural Workers Project as they mourn the loss of loved ones.
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World Indigenous People’s Day: Supporting Defense and Dignity
August 9th is the United Nations’ International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Grassroots International supports Indigenous social movements around the world. This blog looks at the threats facing these communities, and the resistance they’re waging.
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Guatemala a “Safe Third Country?” Puh-leeze!
Carol Schachet, Director of Development and Communications for Grassroots International, writes about the U.S.'s strong-arm extortion of Guatemala. In a new agreement, Guatemala will be its remote enforcer against asylum seekers.
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Haiti Stands in Solidarity with Puerto Rico
Our Haitian partner Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA) expresses their solidarity with the people of Puerto Rico in the streets, protesting corruption and disaster capitalism, and calling on the governor to resign.
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Feminism in Authoritarian Times in the Voice of Five International Activists
This article from Carta Capital reports on the international feminist seminar that took place in June 2019, organized by the World March of Women, which comes out of our collaboration’s work to build feminist strategy and popular education.
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VIDEO: Building Grassroots Feminism on Women’s Day
Just like the World March of Women's contingent in January's Women's March, you can build grassroots feminism in your community this March 8th. Watch this video to learn more.
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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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From the Women’s March to the World March of Women: Grassroots Solutions to Root Causes
The Women's March, #MeToo, and Time's Up movements have grown in the United States over the last few years. Grassroots International partner the World March of Women is in complete solidarity with these movements — while seeking to bring in a deep, global vision.
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USFA Declares Food Sovereignty and Cross-Border Solidarity
The US Food Sovereignty Alliance held its fourth national assembly in Bellingham, Washington in October. In the statement below, the alliance expresses its solidarity with migrants and movements as they face attacks around the world. At the same time, it puts forward a vision for a different food system.
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Hazards at the Fenceline: Report from BEAI Fund Grantee
Coming Clean, a BEAI Fund grantee, surveyed nine communities across the United States for their study Life at the Fenceline. Their report reveals how impoverished communities, especially Black and Latinx ones, have borne the brunt of health hazards from toxic pollution.
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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.