In Louisiana, Justice Means Fighting for Every Breath
In an area where air quality are among the worst in the country, RISE St. James is working tirelessly to change the landscape.
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2021 in Review and Resistance
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.
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Rooting Climate Justice in Indigenous Resistance
Grassroots International stands with Indigenous movements at the forefront of the global climate justice movement. They are building upon centuries-long struggles for Indigenous sovereignty over land, water and other forms of territory.
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On Heels of Failed UN Food Systems Summit, Food Sovereignty Prize Highlights Transformative Solutions
On September 23, social movements and scientists across the world boycotted the United Nations Food Systems Summit for undermining effective efforts to address hunger. These same groups are raising up the Food Sovereignty Prize, which will be awarded this October 16, as championing real solutions to the mounting global hunger crisis.
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Reflections on Food Sovereignty and Black Liberation
A rich conversation about land rights and land sovereignty for Black liberation sparked up some of the following reflections.
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Food Sovereignty Prize Winners Announced
Now in its 13th year, the Food Sovereignty Prize is given annually on or around World Food Day to grassroots organizations advancing food sovereignty. It stands in contrast to the World Food Prize, which perpetuates the myth that we can produce our way out of hunger.
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The Shared Suns of Solidarity: Palestinian and Black Struggles
As we reflect, commemorate and take action for Black August, we highlight Black and Palestinian solidarity. This rich history of shared struggle can map the route to freedom ahead.
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Black August: Roots, Resistance and Global Solidarity
Black August is a much needed practice to uplift our collective Black humanity. This month, Grassroots International has been deepening our understanding of the revolutionary roots of Black August, as they apply to our work and that of our partners and allies across the globe.
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Streaming Resistance: “L’Eau Est La Vie (Water is Life)”
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.
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Defending the World’s Oceans, Water, and People
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.
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Empire, Anti-Asian Violence and the Challenge of Democracy
The horrifying violence we witnessed against Asian women in Atlanta has its roots in empire, land and labor. Solidarity voices have risen loudly and broadly in the wake of the murders, calling for an end to systems and structures responsible.
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2020 in Review: Response, Recovery and Transformation
Through the immeasurable challenges of 2020, our partners persisted and advanced long-term transformative solutions. With your help, Grassroots International increased our support to unprecedented levels required to meet the challenges of these extraordinary times.
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From Disparity to Parity: For an Equitable Food System Now!
The National Family Farm Coalition's Disparity to Parity campaign is a call for a racially just, economically empowered, and climate resilient food system.
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Food as Control, Food as Resistance
How do Indigenous and Black struggles around food sovereignty in the US intersect with those in Palestine, in terms of both the violence and trauma out of which they emerged and the forms of resistance they have generated?
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Activists Speak Out on Carbon Pricing, Highlight Life-Sustaining Climate Solutions
Activists, including Indigenous leaders from Brazil and Minnesota, spoke out against carbon pricing at an Environmental Grantmakers Association fall meeting. Against carbon pricing they offered life-sustaining climate solutions.