We have been receiving on-the-ground updates from OFRANEH about the most recent wave of violence, oppression and forced eviction they are facing. Narco-traffickers have invaded Vallecito, an important home for many Garifuna.
We join our allies in signing-on to this powerful statement around the wave of white supremacist attacks from El Paso to Mississippi. We also lift up the struggles facing our BEAI Fund grantee the Border Agricultural Workers Project as they mourn the loss of loved ones.
August 9th is the United Nations’ International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Grassroots International supports Indigenous social movements around the world. This blog looks at the threats facing these communities, and the resistance they’re waging.
Carol Schachet, Director of Development and Communications for Grassroots International, writes about the U.S.'s strong-arm extortion of Guatemala. In a new agreement, Guatemala will be its remote enforcer against asylum seekers.
Our Haitian partner Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA) expresses their solidarity with the people of Puerto Rico in the streets, protesting corruption and disaster capitalism, and calling on the governor to resign.
Grassroots International supports agroecology (farming methods rooted in traditional food growing knowledge) to counter the global dominance and damage of plantation-style agriculture.
Around the world, women, Indigenous People and youth have bravely united in ever-larger and more powerful movements and coalitions.
Piper Carter, a member of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and photographer, joined our delegation to Brazil. Her photoblog shows off our partners' joy, hope, and strength amid dark times.
Tarso Ramos, a member of our recent Brazil delegation, reports back from witnessing the ongoing resilience and resistance of social movements amid dark times.
From radio to popular education, our partners like Haiti's Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP) use methods that are sensitive to the people they’re reaching.
After graduate fellow Nicholas Johnson and Solidarity Program Officer Mina Remy attended the "Water Is a Human Right" summit, they visited the front lines in Nigeria. Nicholas describes the contamination these grassroots communities are facing, and the resistance they are waging.
With a broken heart but whole spirit, I remember the names of some of our friends, colleagues, allies and partners who have left us all too soon. They join the host of ancestors urging me onward, because the journey toward justice is not yet finished.
Our graduate fellow Nicholas Johnson writes about what he witnessed in Nigeria. Nicholas provides context for the current water justice struggles in the country and recounts the national “Human Right to Water” summit.
A philanthropic friend of Grassroots International, the Swift Foundation published an open letter that brings both clarity and depth in speaking out against the underlying problems driving the commodification of nature and the displacement of Indigenous Peoples.
As we stand in solidarity with Palestinians this Land Day, let’s also hold our own government and industries accountable for the suffering and human rights violations they are enabling. And let's remember the courage and creativity to transform weapons of death into beacons of life, on canister at a time.
In January 2019, Grassroots International Solidarity Program Officer Mina Remy and our graduate fellow Nicholas Johnson visited Nigeria. The second of the two-part photo-blog series looks at environmental justice struggles at the grassroots.
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.
