Movements Expose Corporate Power, Not People Power, Behind the UN Food Systems Summit
Despite being touted as a “people’s summit,” the UN Food Systems Summit is the latest attempt at the corporate takeover of the world’s food systems.
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Against CBD’s Outmoded “Conservation”
Grassroots International and 48 other civil society and philanthropic organizations have signed on to a letter to the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD). CBD's use of "conservation" not only will not protect nature. It will lead to more displacement of the very Indigenous communities who are the best stewards for natural land and territory.
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As Key Suspect Tried, Encampment Demands Justice for Berta Cáceres
After five long years, social movements in Honduras are finally getting closer to bringing some justice to the assassination of beloved movement leader Berta Cáceres. Today, David Castillo sits on trial as a key perpetrator of her murder. But the corruption goes much deeper than Castillo. So movements have encamped outside the Supreme Court.
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No Sense of Safety Left in Gaza
Memories of every previous trauma are impossible to forget because all of us in Gaza always live lacking a sense of safety. The Israeli drones have never left the sky over us between 2014 and 2021.
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Guarding the Cracks in Their Apartheid Walls
In the following article from the Palestine Chronicle, Jamal Juma from our partner Stop the Wall calls for solidarity at a critical moment for Palestine.
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The Garifuna Struggle in Honduras: “They are calling us ‘invaders’ of our own land”
On this Earth Day, we recognize the links between human rights and the rights of Mother Earth and we stand with those defending land, water, forests and all forms of territory. The following interview was conducted by Real World Radio...
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Eldorado do Carajás, 25 Years of Impunity: Interview with Ayala Ferreira
In commemoration of International Day of Peasant Struggle, we share this piece by Fernanda Alcântara published by the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil. Eldorado do Carajás, 25 Years of Impunity: Interview with Ayala Ferreira The 17th of April 1996...
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In Guatemala, Resignations are Not Enough
In recent months, mass protests of Indigenous Peoples, youth, peasants and workers in Guatemala have shaken politicians and the undemocratic system they manage. Our partners the Peasant Unity Committee (CUC) and Sector de Mujeres have been at the forefront of the struggle through Asamblea Social y Popular.
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Communicating Food Sovereignty: 10 Years of the Nyéléni Newsletter
In 2007, social movements from across the globe converged in Mali for the Nyéléni Global Forum for Food Sovereignty. In the years since, the Nyéléni Newsletter has helped to continue the momentum for food sovereignty.
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Converging to Overcome Crisis and Change the System
In her powerful and timely article featured in this year’s Right to Food and Nutrition Watch, Grassroots International’s Salena Tramel explores diverse social movements' responses to crisis.
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A Vision for a Feminist Peace
A groundbreaking report from our allies lays out an urgently-needed agenda for US foreign policy based on principles of collective care, reparations, and accountability.
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Agribusiness Replaces Hunger with Malnutrition
Tim Wise, a former executive director of Grassroots International, critiques the Green Revolution in Africa.
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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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No Room for Inaction on Climate: Nnimmo Bassey
In an interview from Greenhouse PR, Nnimmo Bassey speaks on the movement he helps to lead, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in Nigeria. HOMEF is a Grassroots International grantee.
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Report shows Africa’s Green Revolution is Failing
A new report from the Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy exposes the false promises of the so-called Green Revolution in Africa. “Failing Africa’s Farmers: An Impact Assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa,” documents the failure...
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Palestinian Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives
We need the people in the streets struggling for their rights and humanity that Palestinians are standing strongly with them, we consider their struggles as ours.
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Small-scale Agriculture Can Feed Our Countries
As African agriculture faces big challenges, the president of Network of Farmers' Organizations and Agricultural Producers in West Africa (ROPPA) is convinced that the Covid-19 crisis is a window of opportunity.
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Movement Poem: “the tools that those frogs spoke about by the fire”
In a world where there seems to be infinite peoples reclaiming their rebel dignity, reclaiming their collective agency from a corrosive system, what I felt in writing this piece was that sense of grounding and capturing a convergence of people power in my communities back in California and the joy found in Florida those days.
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Africa Says, “I Can’t Breathe”: An African Civil Society Perspective on Systemic Racism
The knee on George Floyd’s neck is the same knee that is on our neck. It is the same knee that justified colonialism in Africa. It is the same knee that sees Africa not for what it has, but for what it's lacking. Those who are putting their knee on our neck look at us as stupid, uncivilized, barbaric, clueless, and disease-ridden, to be controlled and directed by the all-knowing and powerful.