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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Palestine Post-Ceasefire: Update and Call for Continued Solidarity
Even as their own lives have been turned upside down, our partners on the ground have been working tirelessly on emergency response while building toward longer-term change. They assert that now is not the time to return to "normal" in Palestine because normal before the most recent attacks meant ongoing human rights violations, apartheid and settler colonialism. Now is the time to achieve a just peace and Palestinian self-determination.
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Mobilizing People and Moving Money for Palestinian Rights
Now that a ceasefire has thankfully been called, Palestine will once again begin to fade from the headlines, and, unless we are vigilant, it will begin to fade from the collective consciousness until the next round of heightened attacks come. If we’re to break this cycle, Palestinians will need our sustained solidarity.
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This Must End: A Call for Action from Palestine
How long will the world just sit idly by while we here in Gaza suffer like this? The people of Gaza need more than just statements and resolutions, while Israel receives the arms which are killing and terrorizing us.
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Update from the Trenches in Brazil: “one of the worst crises our country has ever seen”
Grassroots International received this first-hand account of the current situation in Brazil from Valdenildo (Nildo) Martins de Souza of MST – Pernambuco and received his permission to post it. He gives a powerful and devastating overview and shares about the...
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International Day of Peasant Struggle: Looking Back to Build Forward
On this April 17th, International Day of Peasant Struggle, Grassroots International joins La Vía Campesina and other movement partners and allies across the globe in commemorating two interlinked anniversaries of great importance to our movements. First, it has been 25...
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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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Sowing a Feminist Future
March is a time in which we focus on women as the beating heart of social change. We joined allies and partners in launching the Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organizing School.
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Keeping Hope Alive in Palestine
Longtime activist and Grassroots supporter Nancy Murray believes we should be hopeful for Palestine. More people want to take a stand for justice.
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An Emergency Acknowledged, Thanks to Grassroots Feminists
After more than two years of struggle, Puerto Rican feminists have won an important victory. Finally, gender-based violence will be treated as the emergency it is.
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A New Year Brings a New Settlement for Landless Families
With the new year comes a new victory from our Brazilian partner the Landless Workers Movement (MST). After three years of occupation on public land, rural families have won a recognized settlement near São Cristóvão do Sul.
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Guatemala’s Movements Shake the System
Since November, a series of mass protests have shaken the streets of Guatemala’s capital. We are sending our solidarity to our partners in the struggle.
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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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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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Social Movements Lead Recovery from Devastating Back-to-back Hurricanes in Central America
What is known at the time of writing is that the death toll from Hurricanes Eta and Iota (currently nearing 200) continues to grow, while more than 200,000 are without homes and millions more are impacted by the combined effects of the hurricanes and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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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.
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A Symbol of Strength in Puerto Rico’s Fields
For International Day of Rural Women, we are celebrating women farmers like Norysell Massanet. Puerto Rico's farmers like her are reconnecting their communities to their food, culture, and land.
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After Decades of Delay, A Step Towards Justice in El Salvador
Justice delayed and deferred is still justice” – colonel involved in 1989 murders of Jesuit peace activists in El Salvador convicted
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MST Resists COVID-19 Clampdown
As the Bolsonaro government lets COVID-19 rip through Brazil, it is cracking down on the Landless Workers Movement (MST). But the MST is resisting.