The Power and Beauty of Shared Food
Food is a right, a responsibility, a gift, a life, a mystery, a puzzle of unequal distribution of resources which must be solved right now.
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Resource Rights and Wrongs
An article on the connections between water, resource rights and social justice in a special issue on Water and Social Justice for Progressive Planning, the magazine of the
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Farm to Table in Palestine
Interview with Ahmed Sourani, PARC-Gaza
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An Open Letter to the Consul General of Israel to New England
We are here to denounce the continuing war crimes perpetrated by the Israel government against the million and a half residents of the Gaza Strip, and to demand that your government cease its mili
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Building Community: Building Global Justice
Grassroots International has developed a program of grantmaking that is designed to provide critical support to the most exciting social change organizations in the global south, par
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Gaza Since the Election of Hamas
Many things have changed in the Gaza Strip since Hamas won the elections in January 2006 according to the public will. The E.U. and U.S.
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Family Farmers and Food Sovereignty Global Struggles for the Future of Food and Family Farming
Everyday more than 800 million people go hungry. Many of the hungry are family farmers or landless farm workers in the Global South. In the U.S., family farmers are struggling to stay in business and fighting for a cleaner environment and for a food system that will protect rural livelihoods and provide consumers with safe, delicious, local food. To face these daunting challenges, family farmers from around the world are organizing themselves into a global movement for social justice.
In Washington D.C., Grassroots and the National Family Farm Coalition organized a public forum for farmers movements, academics and activists from around the nation and around the world to share theirglobal vision for food and farming.
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Lila Downs Benefit Concert for Grassroots International and Circulo de Mujeres
Grassroots International and the Circle of Women/Círculo de Mujeres were honored to welcome acclaimed singer Lila Downs for a special benefit concert. Lila Downs's deep commitment to indigneous and women’s rights is woven throughout her music.
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At the 214th Anniversary of the Ceremony of Bois Caiman, Haiti
More than 300 peasants from the departments of the South, the West, the Center and the Artibonite were assembled the 22 of August, 2005, in Petite Rive, Artibonite for the 214th anniversary
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A Tribute to Jacques Roche, Haiti’s Tireless Defender of the Poorest
We, representatives of the organizations signing this note, wish to draw the attention of the Haitian population and of the world’s social movements in general to the fact that Jacques Roc
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Africa’s Debt Cancellation
As the G-8 countries meet in Edinburgh, Scotland, to discuss debt cancellation for Africa there is much buzz in the media and elsewhere on transparency and reform.
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Gaza, the Day After Disengagement
On the 24th of February I traveled to Gaza to meet with Grassroots International’s partners, the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC). The entrance into Gaza was not easy.
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Rural Women’s Development Society: Women’s Empowerment and the Building of Democracy in Palestine
On Friday, January 14, Ghada Zughayar, the director of Rural Women’s Development Society (RWDS), joined a Grantmakers Without Borders
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Humanitarian Crises: What is a Progressive to do?
Tim Wise, former Executive Director of Grassroots International elaborated on this based on Grassroots' principles back in 2005 shortly after the Asian tsunami. Those pointers are just as relevant today. Progressive-minded people who want to contribute to humanitarian aid efforts too often abandon their progressive principles, particularly in crisis situations. Why? They want to help, and they want to do so quickly. And they focus on the service-delivery – food rations, medicines, shelter – rather than the service deliverers. -
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Bush, the Pentagon and the Tsunami
After Secretary of State Colin Powell surveyed the devastated coast of Aceh in Indonesia from a military helicopter, he proclaimed at a press conference that Americans “care about the dign
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Via Campesina Tsunami Relief and Reconstruction Fund
Via Campesina Tsunami Relief and Reconstruction Fund
WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN No. 2, January 12, 2005 -
The Tsunamis’ Aftermath: Need for Urgent Responses
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) shares the grief of those faced with one of the worst natural catastrophes of recent times by way of