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?
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.
For this World Food Day, we celebrate the 2020 Food Sovereignty Prize winners the Somali Bantu Community Association and All Nepal Peasants Federation.
We need the people in the streets struggling for their rights and humanity that Palestinians are standing strongly with them, we consider their struggles as ours.
In a world where there seems to be infinite peoples reclaiming their rebel dignity, reclaiming their collective agency from a corrosive system, what I felt in writing this piece was that sense of grounding and capturing a convergence of people power in my communities back in California and the joy found in Florida those days.
We call for justice for George Floyd and countless others. We stand in solidarity with the struggle to defend Black lives in the US and around the world.
On May 14 over 110 Grassroots International supporters and activists joined a Zoom call to learn more about how social movements are organizing during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
There is still much to do, especially at a time in which almost everyone is worried about the impending economic fallout of an uncertain political moment. But as the Puerto Rican food movement looks into the future, Comedores Sociales has a slogan that says it all: ‘We don't eat austerity; we cook dignity.’
Join us for a webinar featuring Global South voices from Palestine, Puerto Rico, and the United States. What do frontline communities need for support, and what lessons can they teach?
Milourdes Augustin, Solidarity Program Officer for Haiti and West Africa, shares a poem for Earth Day. The world is on the brink of a necessary revolution and Mother Earth is on our side.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic had hit the U.S., 23 women and gender nonconforming organizers from across the United States laid out feminist, antiwar solutions to the crisis.
The coronavirus exposes our dysfunctional leadership and sparking new ways of caring for each other and the planet, writes CLIMA Fund director Lindley Mease.
In this time of the COVID-19, with all its uncertainty and fear, we offer solidarity — to you, to the afflicted, and to our partners around the world. As we all know, crises like this one make existing inequalities worse....
A new report released during the Environmental Grantmakers Association’s Winter Briefing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, urges U.S. philanthropy to invest in Puerto Rico’s social movements as the best solution to the archipelago’s climate and humanitarian crisis. Many of the...
The report chronicles deep lessons in transformational change, from Puerto Rico’s social movements which are visionary and oppositional, centering sovereignty and self-governance. For funders who are interested in supporting movements who are building a pathway to a decolonized, thriving and resilient Puerto Rico, this report will provide a helpful roadmap.
The earthquakes in Puerto Rico demand support for immediate relief, led by the grassroots, and for long-term organizing to demand a just recovery.
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.
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.
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...
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.
