BOLD program-alum Natasha Soto discusses building a local organization in the Movement for Black Lives, and what she learned from our delegation to Haiti. Natasha organizes in Just Resisting Buffalo and Black Love Resists in the Rust.
We're continuing our Black August series of Haitian delegation members. In this installment, Grassroots board member Ninaj Raoul discusses the importance of sharing history and resistance across borders.
The international training courses created as part of the Global Peasant Solidarity Movement Building Initiative provide the foundation for the intellectual, technical, and cultural exchange that takes place during these brigades.
Grassroots International is commemorating Black August with a series of reflections from our recent delegation to Haiti. Gina Athena Ulysse is a feminist artist-anthropologist-activist and self-described Post-Zora Interventionist, and she currently teaches anthropology at Wesleyan University.
Movement leaders in Brazil, including Grassroots International partner the Landless Workers Movement, are conducting a hunger strike to defend democracy. Volunteer Leonie Rauls writes about the struggle to release former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from prison so he can stand in the upcoming national elections.
Grassroots International and the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil are supporting new projects to develop independent news sources that tell the workers’ and peasants’ side of the story.
Grassroots International is commemorating Black August with a series of reflections from our recent delegation to Haiti. Marie Helene Fabien Hall lives in Jackson, Mississippi and supports Cooperation Jackson, a Black and Latinx cooperative economics movement and fellow member of the Climate Justice Alliance.
On June 20th, Flavio Barbosa visited Grassroots International's office in Boston. Flavio is an activist in Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST) in the state of Ceará. He discussed past and present struggles in the region, and how the MST has organized an effective movement to defend land, rivers, and people.
Interview with Ouedraogo Ramata, a farmer with Grassroots International partner We Are the Solution.
On Friday, July 6, Haitian protesters took to the streets in widespread demonstrations against proposed cost hike in gas (and gas products) in the country.
Flavio Barbosa, who organizes with Grassroots International partner the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Ceará, Brazil, stopped by our offices in Boston last week. He shared a solidarity message from the MST to immigrants and refugees facing persecution in the United States and at the border. As he states in the video, "People should be free to live and choose a place where they can be well with their family."
In 2017 Grassroots International launched the Global Peasant Solidarity Movement Building Initiative, a series of projects coordinated in collaboration with our partner the Landless Workers Movement/ Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST). This initiative, now in its second year, supports international social movements as they strengthen the infrastructure of regional learning centers, independent media production and popular communications trainings, political education, and global solidarity.
The Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund is not built on merely an idealistic, aspirational perspective, but on conviction grounded in many decades of walking alongside “bucket brigade grandmothers” and supporting many more of the fiercest community-led actions in the world.
This week, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) and Grassroots International are leading a delegation in Haiti. A group of U.S.-based Black female organizers and activists are travelling the country, meeting with Grassroots International partners and sharing lessons of resistance.
The Caribbean is still picking up the pieces from last year's hurricane season. Thanks to your support for our Caribbean Hurricane Emergency Fund, we raised over $185,000 for recovery, resilience, and resistance. Read more about some of the amazing work you supported.
In response to government inaction and ineffectiveness, Haiti’s largest social movements have banded together to take command of the nation’s future. Haiti’s social movements recently joined hands in a historic show of unity and people power, putting the final touches...
There is a political crisis happening in Nicaragua. Its spark was a set of reforms to social security that President Daniel Ortega’s government put in place to address the budget shortfall facing the country’s social security system, though, at this point, there is a broader set of concerns and threats.
There are things we can do to support Gaza. We can invest in Palestinian-led sustainable development, and when necessary, humanitarian relief. We can divest from those who profit from Israeli militarization and occupation. We can educate ourselves, and then others, and we can take it to the streets.
Grassroots International joins our partners in Palestine and people of conscience around the world in condemning the recent killings and ongoing brutal attacks on unarmed Palestinian protesters by the Israeli military.
Jovana Garcia Soto witnessed the ongoing resistance of ordinary Puerto Ricans against disaster capitalism, and the ongoing solidarity efforts by U.S. climate justice activists.