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.
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Teaching Dissent, Building Mass Movements
This month, we are exploring the connection between popular education and movement building. Without radical education, there can be no radical practice.
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Land, Resistance, and Liberation: Agricultural Cooperatives as a Vital Piece of Black History in the U.S.
When we talk about Black history, we must recognize and pay homage to this rich history of resistance around food and land that is an essential part of it.
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Grassroots International Commends Amnesty International Report on Israeli Apartheid Against Palestinians
We commend Amnesty International on the launch of its report condemning Israel's apartheid system against Palestinians. The report details how Israeli authorities impose a system of domination and oppression against the Palestinian people.
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In 2022, Solidarity Remains Our Way Forward
For January 2022, Grassroots is looking at the year ahead, the social conditions impacting our and our partners’ work, and the stories of resistance and solution-building we’ll be sharing with our supporters.
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The Truth is Revolutionary: New Colonialisms, Continuing Resistance
In Elegua’s last article, they wrote about the living legacy of Haiti’s struggle for independence and freedom. For Part Two, Elegua looks at Haiti’s ongoing struggle against imperialism.
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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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The Truth is Revolutionary: Haitian Independence, Black Liberation, and a Legacy of Transnational Solidarity
January marks a key moment in Black liberation, the Haitian Revolution's 1804 victory. The first of a two-part article looks at its global, ongoing impact.
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In Memory of Janet Axelrod
Our board member and long-time activist and philanthropic organizer Janet Axelrod died Sunday, 12/26, at her home in Cambridge, after a fierce 3-round battle with cancer... Somehow it also feels meaningful that Janet died the same day as Desmond Tutu, a giant of the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa, a struggle so central in Janet’s own work.
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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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Defending Haitian Human Rights in an Era of Instability
On December 10 we celebrated International Human Rights Day, the anniversary of our partner, and their efforts to advance human rights and social change in Haiti.
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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.