Healing Minds, Bodies and Mother Earth
We live in a sick system, and people and the planet need healing. Our partners are leading the way with healing justice.
Kebetkache, an eco-feminist movement in Nigeria and Grassroots International grantee, has long waged a struggle to defend water and the communities that depend on it.
After five long years, social movements in Honduras are finally getting closer to bringing some justice to the assassination of beloved movement leader Berta Cáceres. Today, David Castillo sits on trial as a key perpetrator of her murder. But the corruption goes much deeper than Castillo. So movements have encamped outside the Supreme Court.
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.
Longtime activist and Grassroots supporter Nancy Murray believes we should be hopeful for Palestine. More people want to take a stand for justice.
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.
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.
The National Family Farm Coalition's Disparity to Parity campaign is a call for a racially just, economically empowered, and climate resilient food system.
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.
Tim Wise, a former executive director of Grassroots International, critiques the Green Revolution in Africa.
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.
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.
Ayman Nijim, Solidarity Program Officer for the Middle East at Grassroots International, answers questions about what's happening in Palestine.
Our struggles are connected. This Black August, Grassroots International is proud to restate our solidarity with Black lives, here and around the world.
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.
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.
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.
The coronavirus exposes our dysfunctional leadership and sparking new ways of caring for each other and the planet, writes CLIMA Fund director Lindley Mease.
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.