Defending the World’s Oceans, Water, and People
For World Oceans Day, we are taking a look at the ways movements are defending water, oceans and people from the various threats they face.
Chris Morrill, Author at Grassroots International
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Keeping Hope Alive in Palestine
Longtime activist and Grassroots supporter Nancy Murray believes we should be hopeful for Palestine. More people want to take a stand for justice.
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An Emergency Acknowledged, Thanks to Grassroots Feminists
After more than two years of struggle, Puerto Rican feminists have won an important victory. Finally, gender-based violence will be treated as the emergency it is.
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A New Year Brings a New Settlement for Landless Families
With the new year comes a new victory from our Brazilian partner the Landless Workers Movement (MST). After three years of occupation on public land, rural families have won a recognized settlement near São Cristóvão do Sul.
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From Disparity to Parity: For an Equitable Food System Now!
The National Family Farm Coalition's Disparity to Parity campaign is a call for a racially just, economically empowered, and climate resilient food system.
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A Symbol of Strength in Puerto Rico’s Fields
For International Day of Rural Women, we are celebrating women farmers like Norysell Massanet. Puerto Rico's farmers like her are reconnecting their communities to their food, culture, and land.
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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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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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MST Resists COVID-19 Clampdown
As the Bolsonaro government lets COVID-19 rip through Brazil, it is cracking down on the Landless Workers Movement (MST). But the MST is resisting.
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Q+A with Ayman Nijim, Solidarity Program Officer for the Middle East
Ayman Nijim, Solidarity Program Officer for the Middle East at Grassroots International, answers questions about what's happening in Palestine.
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Defending Black Lives Around the World
Our struggles are connected. This Black August, Grassroots International is proud to restate our solidarity with Black lives, here and around the world.
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Prevent Agribusiness’s Pandemics with Food Sovereignty
April 17th is the International Day of Food sovereignty matters for not only farmers, but for preventing pandemics. Corporate agriculture for profit is putting our health and planet at risk.
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For Coronavirus Patients, MST Offers Training Center as a Field Hospital
Grassroots International has long funded and supported the Landless Workers Movement's Paulo Freire Training Center in Pernambuco, Brazil. The Landless Workers Movement is now opening up the center as a field hospital for coronavirus patients.
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Confront the Pandemic with a Feminist Foreign Policy
Before the COVID-19 pandemic had hit the U.S., 23 women and gender nonconforming organizers from across the United States laid out feminist, antiwar solutions to the crisis.
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Coronavirus: how to care for the Earth and each other
The coronavirus exposes our dysfunctional leadership and sparking new ways of caring for each other and the planet, writes CLIMA Fund director Lindley Mease.
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Amid COVID-19, Via Campesina says stay home but not silent
COVID-19 has crippled the world. But a moment of crisis like this reveals that we are all interrelated as humans, writes our partner La Via Campesina.
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10 Years After Haiti’s Earthquake, A Crossroads
January 12 marked the 10th anniversary of a devastating earthquake in Haiti. But its aftershocks can still be felt today, in the mass protests against corruption and cutbacks.
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Standing Up for Free Speech in Guatemala
An Indigenous small farmer and movement leader in Guatemala is facing legal attacks on his free speech. Our partner is asking for solidarity.
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Impeachment by Protest: “Renuncia!”
Puerto Ricans led one of the dozen revolts that took place in 2019, toppling their corrupt governor. Learn the lessons from their struggle straight from the voice of a leading activist, Shariana Ferrer-Núñez of Colectiva.