VIDEO: 35 Years of Resistance Resilience and Power
Check out this video from our 35th anniversary gala. Look back on the stories of our partners and allies, and look forward to the future world we're building together.
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Corporate Pitches or Real Solutions?: Solidarity 2 Solutions Challenges GCAS
Climate change is disrupting our world and our lives. "Conscientious capitalists" assembled in San Francisco in September to offer false solutions. The grassroots answered on the streets with real ones.
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35th Anniversary Message from Dan Connell, Founder
In the early 1980s, famine loomed in Eritrea and Ethiopia, but no one was talking about it. Nor was anyone outside a small circle of activists talking sense about the Middle East. And if they tried, they were hammered. Enter...
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Black August: Local Struggles, Global Solidarity
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.
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Black August: Resistance Shared Across Borders and Time
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.
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Building International Solidarity
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.
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Black August: A Lesson in Solidarity in Practice
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.
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A Hunger Strike for Judicial Justice
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.
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Sharpening Communication: Harnessing the Media to Build Solidarity
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.
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Black August: Seeing Hope and Sticking to It
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.
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VIDEO: A Conversation with Flavio Barbosa, MST
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.
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Interview with Ramata Ouedraogo, Farmer with We Are the Solution
Interview with Ramata Ouedraogo, a farmer with Grassroots International partner We Are the Solution.
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Haitian Uprising in the Wake of Gas Hikes, Neocolonialism
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.
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VIDEO: Landless Workers Movement in Solidarity with Immigrants
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."
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Rooting the Movement: The Importance of Political Education/Formation
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.