On March 10th, just two days after International Women’s Day, grassroots feminist organizers from around the globe gathered virtually to celebrate the launch of the Decolonial Feminist Popular Education facilitator’s guidebook.
Although 2022 has been tumultuous in many ways, it has been a year of steadfast building, deepening, and growth – for social movements, and for us as a movement support organization.
Peasant, Indigenous, and feminist movements challenged false solutions and greenwashing at the conference while offering up real solutions coming from those most impacted by the climate crisis.
As social movements are increasingly reconvening in person, so are movement allies. This past month, Grassroots International staff dusted off their luggage to take part in several major gatherings, and we’re now packing our bags for more.
With recent spikes in food, fuel, and fertilizer prices raising alarms of intensifying hunger globally, food and farm advocates are calling for lasting solutions to a food system in crisis.
As part of uplifting queer and trans liberation for June, we are reposting this piece from 2021 from Capire, a publication of the World March of Women.
Movements around the world are showing why gender and sexual freedom is necessary for struggles for the planet, people, and global social 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.
For the month of April, we’re looking at the connection between the rights of peasants and the health of Mother Earth.
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.
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.
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.
While recognizing that with every victory comes a new front of struggle in collective efforts to transform the world, we cap off 2021 with twelve movement successes involving our partners and allies whom we have been honored to accompany.
Grassroots International stands with Indigenous movements at the forefront of the global climate justice movement. They are building upon centuries-long struggles for Indigenous sovereignty over land, water and other forms of territory.
Our partner La Via Campesina shares the history and continued importance of Food Sovereignty for the 25th anniversary of the concept's founding.
On September 23, social movements and scientists across the world boycotted the United Nations Food Systems Summit for undermining effective efforts to address hunger. These same groups are raising up the Food Sovereignty Prize, which will be awarded this October 16, as championing real solutions to the mounting global hunger crisis.
25 years ago, united by the conviction “not about us without us,” peasant farmers from around the globe converged on the World Food Summit uninvited. In the years since, food sovereignty and the movements around it have grown in visibility, power and impact.
Sustaining the Struggle: Celebrate 25 Years of Food Sovereignty! “We, the Via Campesina, reject the economic and political conditions which destroy our livelihoods, our communities, our cultures and our natural environment.” — 1996 Via Campesina Declaration “Food Sovereignty: A Future...
