After Elections, MST Will Keep Up the Struggle
In its commitment to social and ecological transformation, our Brazilian partner the MST is clear that the organizing must continue regardless of the administration in place.
In its commitment to social and ecological transformation, our Brazilian partner the MST is clear that the organizing must continue regardless of the administration in place.
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.
This year, we were excited to pilot a new program: Solidarity Encounters. These encounters are virtual engagement spaces for those interested in supporting Grassroots International to learn more about our work and the work of our frontline partners.
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.
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.
We are the Solution is a network of movements across West Africa united by a vision of food sovereignty grounded in women-led, peasant-based agroecology.
We are celebrating the movements, their accomplishments, and their political visions as we publicly announce the formalization of our West Africa program.
A recent OFRANEH delegation discussed their struggle in Honduras. They also shared a new project with us — organizing with the Garifuna community in the US.
For July, we are looking at the ways youth continue to play central roles in communities and social struggles — both through their own independent organizations and in youth sections of broader movements.
Grassroots International is honored to be a supporter of IALA Mexico and to be in long-term accompaniment of the movements behind it.
People’s Dispatch reports on the exciting gathering of over 1,000 young activists. Members of LPJ also reflect on the 10 years since their first national encampment at Rio Grande do Sul.
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.
The CLIMA Fund — of which Grassroots International is a member — recently released both a series of short videos and an impact report on its 5-year anniversary of funding grassroots climate solutions.
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.
This month, we are exploring the connection between popular education and movement building. Without radical education, there can be no radical practice.
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.
In Elegua’s last article, they wrote about the living legacy of Haiti’s struggle for independence and freedom. For Part Two, Elegua looks at Haiti’s ongoing struggle against imperialism.
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.