On April 17, Peasant Struggles Continue
April 17, International Day of Peasant Struggle, is an important day for global justice — reminding us of the powerful acts of resistance around the world that have gotten us this far.
Cross-border Work
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Celebrating, and Expanding, Grassroots Feminist Education
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.
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Converging with Urgency at the COP27 Climate Summit
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.
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Reuniting with Partners and Allies
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.
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Defending the Amazon Against Destructive Dams
As movements like the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) fight for the future of the Amazon basin, they are fighting for the future of all of us.
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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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Violence Against Indigenous Hondurans Shows Us What Fuels Migration
The Garifuna and our partner OFRANEH in Honduras have been facing down armed assaults this month. It's a concrete example of the violence that is driving people north to the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Guatemala a “Safe Third Country?” Puh-leeze!
Carol Schachet, Director of Development and Communications for Grassroots International, writes about the U.S.'s strong-arm extortion of Guatemala. In a new agreement, Guatemala will be its remote enforcer against asylum seekers.
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Haiti Stands in Solidarity with Puerto Rico
Our Haitian partner Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA) expresses their solidarity with the people of Puerto Rico in the streets, protesting corruption and disaster capitalism, and calling on the governor to resign.
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Photo Blog: Water Justice in Nigeria
In January 2019, Grassroots International attended Nigeria’s National Summit on Water as a Human Right, and spent a few extra days witnessing grassroots resistance. This photoblog, the first in a two-part series, looks at the first half of our trip: the summit itself.
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Pushed, Pulled — and Exploited
If you listen to the people who are forced to flee their homes, they want an end to violence. They want land reform. They want their human rights. Rather than building walls, we need to build a safer, more prosperous world for all.
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Five Ways that Funders Approach Climate Philanthropy
These five narrative frames and their embedded assumptions determine how billions of dollars in climate philanthropy and finance are spent. Without mapping and exposing these frames we cannot engage in honest conversation about the role of philanthropists in supporting transformative change.
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Building International Solidarity
The international training courses created as part of the Global Peasant Solidarity Movement Building Initiative provide the foundation for the intellectual, technical, and cultural exchange that takes place during these brigades.
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Dessalines Brigade: An Activity with Women from MOREPLA & an Agroecology Training with Tet Kole
Last month the Jean -Jacques Brigade of International Solidarity with Haiti held various activities in the women's and production sectors.
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A Partnership Making the Case for Supporting Grassroots Climate Work
The Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund, a partnership of four grantmakers that have been supporting indigenous rights, climate and economic justice, and women’s rights for more than 100 years combined.
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Sharing Lessons in the Black Diaspora: Black Women Lead Delegation to Haiti
This week, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) and Grassroots International are leading a delegation in Haiti. A group of U.S.-based Black female organizers and activists are travelling the country, meeting with Grassroots International partners and sharing lessons of resistance.
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What is the Ongoing Nakba?
An educational statement created by the Nakba Day organizing group in Boston (of which Grassroots International was a part) that provides background information to help frame the conditions in Gaza leading up to the protest.