Press releases from Grassroots International, our partners and our allies.
A new report released during the Environmental Grantmakers Association’s Winter Briefing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, urges U.S. philanthropy to invest in Puerto Rico’s social movements as the best solution to the archipelago’s climate and humanitarian crisis. Many of the...
Berta Cáceres and others were murdered for their activism defending the Lenca people and their land in Honduras. A trial recently sentenced some of her killers, but for her organization COPINH, the struggle for justice must continue.
The Patriotic Forum gathered at the Lakay Center in Papaye to discuss the major problems facing Haiti and charted a vision for future organizing.
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.
The Movement Affected by Dams (MAB) gained a new ally in the Attorney General in the struggle for justice for the families affected by the Brumadinho dam collapse disaster.
The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) honored Black Mesa Water Coalition and Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico on Sunday, October 14, 2018, at the tenth annual Food Sovereignty Prize ceremony on Lummi and Nooksack land in Coast Salish Territory, in the city now called Bellingham, Washington.
The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) condemns the Trump Administration's recent trade and agricultural policies. These measures will not return prosperity to rural America.
Statement about Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s nominee for Secretary of Agriculture from The Network in Defense of the Native Corn of Oaxaca, an alliance that includes two of Grassroots International's partners the Mixe Peoples' Services and the Union of Organizations of the Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca.
The National Family Farm Coalition, a Grassroots International partner organization, celebrates the defeat of the regressive farm bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. Last fall, Grassroots signed onto the NFFC's letter to Congress described in the press release linked here.
In a recent press release the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) decries the corporate seed grab taking place across the continent.
This 17th April, on the occasion of the International Day of Peasant´s Struggle, the member organisations and allies of La Via Campesina are organizing scores of unified and decentralized actions in a global scale, for the right to land and water, against the Free Trade Agreement and against the criminalization of the social struggle.
On the heels of the announcement of the election win by Honduras’ globally discredited Electoral Tribunal amidst turmoil, violence, and mounting evidence of fraud, US rights and civil society groups called on the US Congress and the State Department to halt military aid to Honduras, and not recognize the announced results until a credible, independent investigation into the election has been conducted which addresses all claims of fraud and political violence.
Outraged at the possibility of the theft of Honduras’ election by the discredited current administration, US rights groups are rallying to urge the US to press Honduras for electoral transparency.
Amid initial indications that the Honduran opposition presidential candidate has received enough votes to defeat the ruling National Party candidate, international election monitors and civil society groups are reporting violence and strong indications of fraud during the vote count following the November 26 election.
La Via Campesina officially launches its new publication “Struggles of La Vía Campesina for Agrarian Reform and the Defense of life, Land and Territories” that argues for a massive change in the current agro-food system.
The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) has announced the recipients of its ninth annual Food Sovereignty Prize. A ceremony for the honorees will be live streamed on Tuesday, October 17th.
The Climate Justice Alliance calls for A National Day of Action on Wednesday, October 11th, to demand that Congress pass an immediate federal aid package designed for the Just Recovery and Resilient Rebuild of Puerto Rico. The relief package must include debt relief, the repeal of the Jones Act, transparency in distribution of resources, an assessment of infrastructure, and additional provisions detailed in the online petition that will be delivered to U.S. representatives the day of the mass actions.
Grassroots International joins over 100 organizations and 200 individuals in calling the Department of Homeland Security to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to nearly 50,000 Haitians living in the U.S. since the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti.
On the seventh anniversary of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, we honor those who lost their lives in the earthquake, as well as those who lost their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew.
