Grassroots International has heard from our grantee Movimento Quilombola no Maranhão (MOQUIBOM) about a Quilombola territory in Maranhão, Brazil, that's been invaded by armed men. But the community has resisted.
As we reflect, commemorate and take action for Black August, we highlight Black and Palestinian solidarity. This rich history of shared struggle can map the route to freedom ahead.
Black August is a much needed practice to uplift our collective Black humanity. This month, Grassroots International has been deepening our understanding of the revolutionary roots of Black August, as they apply to our work and that of our partners and allies across the globe.
In the days since a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked southern Haiti on August 14, we have been in close communication with our Haitian partners. Their reports convey immeasurable loss, sharp political analysis, and an extraordinary combination of pragmatism and vision regarding the way forward.
There are currently 33 proposed laws in Brazil's National Congress threatening Indigenous rights. But Indigenous people are mobilizing with mass resistance.
Haiti is once again peering over the edge of a political precipice following the news of the assassination of former president Jovenel Moise. In these moments of instability, social movements have continually shown the way forward towards human rights and ecological justice for all Haitians.
Kebetkache, an eco-feminist movement in Nigeria and Grassroots International grantee, has long waged a struggle to defend water and the communities that depend on it.
In his film “L’Eau Est La Vie (Water is Life),” Grassroots International board member Sam Vinal pieces together firsthand accounts from L’Eau Est La Vie camp organizers as they resist the Bayou Bridge Pipeline.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
