The Court of Justice of São Paulo (TJSP) suspended for 90 days the order of repossession of the area including the Marielle Vive! encampment organized by Grassroots International's Brazilian partner the Landless Workers Movement (MST).
Below is a statement from our global partner, La Via Campesina. La Via Campesina (LVC) is an international movement comprised of more than 200 million small farmers and producers across 70-plus countries. LVC defends peasant agriculture for food sovereignty as...
Below is a statement from the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB), first in English then below in Portuguese. A longtime partner of Grassroots International, MAB advocates for the human right to water, land and energy sovereignty, particularly for...
The Garifuna and our partner OFRANEH in Honduras have been facing down armed assaults this month. It's a concrete example of the violence that is driving people north to the U.S.-Mexico border.
In a recent article in Truthout, Yulissa Arce Mendez looks at the recent uprising against Rosselló: a fast-moving fire against long-simmering austerity and colonial violence.
João Pedro Stedile outlines the issues leading up to the Brazilian coup, life under Bolsonaro's rule, and a vision for a new agrarian program in Brazil.
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.
Sandra Morán, a member of the World March of Women, comments on the elections in Guatemala and the current challenges of feminism.
If we’re serious about protecting our oceans and the life beneath them, our vision needs to expand. As Miriam Miranda, coordinator of OFRANEH, has said, “If the problem is global, we have to have a global response.”
Our Honduran partners, including Miriam Miranda of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), participated in a congress of resistance of Black and Indigenous women. The following statement is a product of the discussions there, among grassroots feminists organizing against the dictatorship and deeper oppressions.
This article from Carta Capital reports on the international feminist seminar that took place in June 2019, organized by the World March of Women, which comes out of our collaboration’s work to build feminist strategy and popular education.
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.
