We Are All Affected: Aftermath of Brumadinho Disaster
On January 25, 2019, the second largest collapse of tailings dams in the world devastated Brumadinho, Brazil. This was a tragedy that didn’t have to happen.
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Sector de Mujeres Office Raided on International Women’s Day
The fact that it was International Women's Day when someone chose to break into the offices of Sector de Mujeres is not lost on anyone who is paying attention. The women consider the office break-in to be an intimidation attempt.
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Soil to Sky: Climate Solutions That Work
A new report from the CLIMA Fund uplifts the solutions that have too often been excluded from climate philanthropy, yet have great potential for scaled impact on the most urgent crisis of our time.
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VIDEO: Building Grassroots Feminism on Women’s Day
Just like the World March of Women's contingent in January's Women's March, you can build grassroots feminism in your community this March 8th. Watch this video to learn more.
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Guatemalan Communities Steadfast in Resistance to Mining Project
We continue to stand in solidarity with the Guatemalan communities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc in their peaceful resistance to the Progreso VII Derivada gold project.
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Photo Blog: Water Justice in Nigeria
In January 2019, Grassroots International attended Nigeria’s National Summit on Water as a Human Right, and spent a few extra days witnessing grassroots resistance. This photoblog, the first in a two-part series, looks at the first half of our trip: the summit itself.
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Babaçu Nut Harvesters Organize for Land and Livelihoods in Brazil
A Brazilian babaçu nut harvester and community leader told us about some of the accomplishments of her community and big challenges.
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2018 in Review: Growth of Resistance, Impact
A look at the successes Grassroots International and our partners have had in 2018 — including a dramatic increase in our solidarity and impact.
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From the Women’s March to the World March of Women: Grassroots Solutions to Root Causes
The Women's March, #MeToo, and Time's Up movements have grown in the United States over the last few years. Grassroots International partner the World March of Women is in complete solidarity with these movements — while seeking to bring in a deep, global vision.
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The Green New Deal: Fulcrum for the Farm and Food Justice Movement?
Over eight decades ago, the Dust Bowl devastated over 100,000,000 acres of agricultural land and the Great Depression threw 15 million Americans out of work. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted The New Deal with sweeping national programs for work, agriculture,...
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Pushed, Pulled — and Exploited
If you listen to the people who are forced to flee their homes, they want an end to violence. They want land reform. They want their human rights. Rather than building walls, we need to build a safer, more prosperous world for all.
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Peasants’ Rights are Human Rights
Grassroots International volunteer Emma George writes about new steps forward for an international Declaration of Peasants and Rural Workers Rights. After almost two decades of negotiations, peasants and other rural workers are finally about to receive formal recognition of their struggles — and their basic human rights.
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Statement in Solidarity with the MST
Grassroots International joins our partners in Brazil and people of conscience worldwide in condemning the brutal murders of two leaders of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in the Dom José Maria Pires agrarian reform encampment, in Alhandra County, Paraiba, Brazil.
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Demanding the Human Right to Mental Health in Gaza
December 10th is International Human Rights Day. For the Gaza Community Mental Health Program (GCMHP), a long-standing Grassroots International partner, mental health is a crucial part of human rights.
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Solidarity Shields Human Rights Workers from Bombs
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights moved its office with an emergency grant from Grassroots International — just months before an airstrike destroyed their former headquarters. PCHR's own tenacity, with solidarity from Grassroots, allowed the human rights monitoring organization to continue its important work.
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Solidarity after Shooting in Pittsburgh
This weekend, in an explosion of antisemitism and nationalism, a gunman killed 11 Jewish congregants gathered for worship in their Pittsburgh synagogue. The Tree of Life became the latest venue of mass murder, leaving us with devastating horror and sadness...
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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...