Mariama Sonko: Our Health Depends on our Food
Mariama Sonko is the National Coordinator for We Are the Solution, a Grassroots International partner, in Senegal. She recently spoke with the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA).
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Elizabeth Mpofu: Agriculture and Advocacy Take Time
Elizabeth Mpofu is a member of the International Coordination Committee (ICC) and serves as the General Coordinator of La Via Campesina (LVC), a Grassroots International global partner. She recently spoke with the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), where she also serves on the executive board.
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Statement from Mexican Social Movement on Secretary of Agriculture Nominee
Statement about Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s nominee for Secretary of Agriculture from The Network in Defense of the Native Corn of Oaxaca, an alliance that includes two of Grassroots International's partners the Mixe Peoples' Services and the Union of Organizations of the Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca.
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Dessalines Brigade: An Activity with Women from MOREPLA & an Agroecology Training with Tet Kole
Last month the Jean -Jacques Brigade of International Solidarity with Haiti held various activities in the women's and production sectors.
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US Food Sovereignty Alliance Organizing Its IV National Assembly
On October 12 – 15, 2018, grassroots organizations, activists, faith-based community, scholars, union members, farmers and fisherfolk, and other food chain workers from around the US and the world will converge on Bellingham, WA, for the IV National Assembly of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA).
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Why We Need Collaborations to Tackle Climate Change
Together, Global Greengrants Fund, Thousand Currents, Grassroots International, and Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights help grassroots organizations working at the intersection of climate resilience and human rights by transforming large amounts of grant capital into strategic investments in effective grassroots climate solutions.
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A Partnership Making the Case for Supporting Grassroots Climate Work
The Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund, a partnership of four grantmakers that have been supporting indigenous rights, climate and economic justice, and women’s rights for more than 100 years combined.
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Family Farmers Applaud Defeat of Regressive House Farm Bill
The National Family Farm Coalition, a Grassroots International partner organization, celebrates the defeat of the regressive farm bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. Last fall, Grassroots signed onto the NFFC's letter to Congress described in the press release linked here.
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What is the Ongoing Nakba?
An educational statement created by the Nakba Day organizing group in Boston (of which Grassroots International was a part) that provides background information to help frame the conditions in Gaza leading up to the protest.
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Social Security Protests in Nicaragua? Hold on a Second…
Jake Johnston from CEPR discusses the recent protests in Nicaragua. Social movements must navigate between the government and the business elite.
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Hands Off African Seeds! – No Intellectual Property on Life
In a recent press release the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) decries the corporate seed grab taking place across the continent.
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VIDEO: Palestinian Center for Human Rights Director on “Great Return March”
Raji Sourani, director of Grassroots International partner the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, spoke to Democracy Now! on April 2, 2018, about the "March of Great Return" protests in Gaza and the aggression and response by the Israeli military.
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April 17th: We Demand that the Peasants Rights are Guaranteed
This 17th April, on the occasion of the International Day of Peasant´s Struggle, the member organisations and allies of La Via Campesina are organizing scores of unified and decentralized actions in a global scale, for the right to land and water, against the Free Trade Agreement and against the criminalization of the social struggle.
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Water is Not a Commodity, Water Belongs to the People
Below is the declaration created from the latest Alternative World Water Forum that occurred on March 17-22, 2018, which several of our partners signed.
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America is Crying – The Struggle for Water in Latin America
On this World Water Day, we want to honor the movements in Latin America struggling for their human right to water.
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Test Shows that People Affected by Hydrodam Disaster are Contaminated with Nickel and Arsenic
Test show that people affected by November 2015 hydrodam disaster in Brazil are contaminated with nickel and arsenic.
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Traversing the Dry Corridor: An Account of the Peasant Women Cooperatives in Honduras
Environmental changes in the Dry Corridor – Corredor Seco – and Atlantic Coast have driven migration in Honduras, one of the countries most affected by climate change. Here, women have gathered together in old and new collectives, as they struggle to create economic opportunities and grow crops against increasing weather variability.
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Security Forces Persecute Peasant Union Leaders in Honduras
Months after the disputed Honduras presidential election, more than 30 people have been assassinated and hundreds more detained. In a recent statement, the Platform of the Social and Popular Movement of Honduras denounces death threats and acts of intimidation made against peasant leaders.
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Murder and Assault Committed Against Evicted Families in Guatemala
The Peasant Unity Committee (CUC), a Grassroots partner, describes the violence and murder committed against indigenous families by private security forces in November.