Defending the Amazon Against Destructive Dams
As movements like the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) fight for the future of the Amazon basin, they are fighting for the future of all of us.
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The Frontlines Are at the Grassroots
We are the Solution is a network of movements across West Africa united by a vision of food sovereignty grounded in women-led, peasant-based agroecology.
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Grassroots International Formalizes West Africa Program
We are celebrating the movements, their accomplishments, and their political visions as we publicly announce the formalization of our West Africa program.
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A Movement Exchange for Healing and Justice
In May, Grassroots International, Move to End Violence (MEV), and several of our partners met in Puerto Rico for healing, reflection, and resistance.
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Fighting for the Garifuna, in Honduras and the US
A recent OFRANEH delegation discussed their struggle in Honduras. They also shared a new project with us — organizing with the Garifuna community in the US.
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Planting Seeds by Building Youth Leadership
For July, we are looking at the ways youth continue to play central roles in communities and social struggles — both through their own independent organizations and in youth sections of broader movements.
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Mexico’s New Movement Institute for Indigenous and Peasant Youth
Grassroots International is honored to be a supporter of IALA Mexico and to be in long-term accompaniment of the movements behind it.
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Celebrating Global Trans Resistance
Movements around the world are showing why gender and sexual freedom is necessary for struggles for the planet, people, and global social justice.
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Grassroots Intermediaries Shift Philanthropy Towards Climate Justice
Grassroots International is profiled in a new report on climate philanthropy highlighting the critical role of grassroots intermediaries in moving funds to movements on the front lines of the climate crisis.
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Expanding Economic Justice
For May, we’re examining how important economic justice is for the struggle for liberation — and broadening our understanding of economic justice, based on learnings from our social movement partners.
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Who Owes Whom? Puerto Rican Feminists Speak Out on Debt
Grassroots International’s partner La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, La Cole, speaks truth to power on the topic of debt.
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Rest in Power: Jean Entine, Presente!
While we deeply miss her presence, Jean’s legacy and inspiration power onward, in the many lives she touched (including mine) and the many organizations she founded, cared for, contributed to and sustained to create a world that centered on justice and dignity.
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Grassroots Climate Justice Movements Get Results
New briefs by the CLIMA Fund highlight how grassroots climate justice movements are advancing systemic and policy change.
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Feeding the World, Cooling the Planet
For the month of April, we’re looking at the connection between the rights of peasants and the health of Mother Earth.
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Raising a United Voice for Indigenous Lives and Mother Earth
As we celebrate Earth Day today, let us celebrate the Indigenous movements at the center of defending the Earth — movements like our partner COPINH, The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras.
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Rob Wallace: Agroecology is Key for Stopping the Next COVID
Epidemiologist Rob Wallace speaks with Grassroots’s Chris Morrill. He argues that agroecology and food sovereignty, like our partner La Via Campesina promotes, are key for stopping the next pandemics.
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International Working Women’s Day: Against War, For the Planet, For a Different World
Today we are celebrating International Working Women’s Day. This day is rooted in global solidarity and in economic justice, as working-class and peasant women struggle against multiple systems of oppression.
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Advancing Together Toward Food Sovereignty in 2022
Amidst intersecting crises, movements are putting the principles of food sovereignty into practice on the ground, and they are launching a process toward a major global convergence.