Expanding Economic Justice
For May, we’re examining how important economic justice is for the struggle for liberation — and broadening our understanding of economic justice, based on learnings from our social movement partners.
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Who Owes Whom? Puerto Rican Feminists Speak Out on Debt
Grassroots International’s partner La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, La Cole, speaks truth to power on the topic of debt.
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Rest in Power: Jean Entine, Presente!
While we deeply miss her presence, Jean’s legacy and inspiration power onward, in the many lives she touched (including mine) and the many organizations she founded, cared for, contributed to and sustained to create a world that centered on justice and dignity.
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Grassroots Climate Justice Movements Get Results
New briefs by the CLIMA Fund highlight how grassroots climate justice movements are advancing systemic and policy change.
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Via Campesina Releases Booklet on Economic Justice
This month, our partner La Via Campesina has released a new booklet on economic justice for rural peoples. Movements are demanding access to resources and the means of production.
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Feeding the World, Cooling the Planet
For the month of April, we’re looking at the connection between the rights of peasants and the health of Mother Earth.
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New Resources on Building Grassroots Power for Climate Justice
The CLIMA Fund — of which Grassroots International is a member — recently released both a series of short videos and an impact report on its 5-year anniversary of funding grassroots climate solutions.
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Raising a United Voice for Indigenous Lives and Mother Earth
As we celebrate Earth Day today, let us celebrate the Indigenous movements at the center of defending the Earth — movements like our partner COPINH, The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras.
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Rob Wallace: Agroecology is Key for Stopping the Next COVID
Epidemiologist Rob Wallace speaks with Grassroots’s Chris Morrill. He argues that agroecology and food sovereignty, like our partner La Via Campesina promotes, are key for stopping the next pandemics.
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Global Solidarity Beats Back Evictions in Brazil
An international campaign led by the Landless Workers Movement, Grassroots International and Friends of the MST extended the eviction moratorium in Brazil, protecting over 500,000 people.
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Human Rights Funders Must Support Civil Society in Palestine
Alice Rothchild, a longtime donor, expresses her deep concern over a series of developments that signal danger for the human rights sector globally.
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In Defense of Rivers, Water and Life
Today, March 14, is the International Day of Struggle Against Dams, and For Rivers, Water and Life. We are sharing a video from our grantee the Movement of People Affected by Dams in Latin America (Movimiento de Afectados por Represas, MAR) as well as their statement for the day.
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International Working Women’s Day: Against War, For the Planet, For a Different World
Today we are celebrating International Working Women’s Day. This day is rooted in global solidarity and in economic justice, as working-class and peasant women struggle against multiple systems of oppression.
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Advancing Together Toward Food Sovereignty in 2022
Amidst intersecting crises, movements are putting the principles of food sovereignty into practice on the ground, and they are launching a process toward a major global convergence.
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Teaching Dissent, Building Mass Movements
This month, we are exploring the connection between popular education and movement building. Without radical education, there can be no radical practice.
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Land, Resistance, and Liberation: Agricultural Cooperatives as a Vital Piece of Black History in the U.S.
When we talk about Black history, we must recognize and pay homage to this rich history of resistance around food and land that is an essential part of it.
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Grassroots International Commends Amnesty International Report on Israeli Apartheid Against Palestinians
We commend Amnesty International on the launch of its report condemning Israel's apartheid system against Palestinians. The report details how Israeli authorities impose a system of domination and oppression against the Palestinian people.
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In 2022, Solidarity Remains Our Way Forward
For January 2022, Grassroots is looking at the year ahead, the social conditions impacting our and our partners’ work, and the stories of resistance and solution-building we’ll be sharing with our supporters.
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Families in Brazil Face Devastating Floods; Social Movements Respond
Given the hardship these families are going through now and for months to come, we are calling upon all people of conscience to take action in solidarity.