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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The Frontlines Are at the Grassroots
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.
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Grassroots International Formalizes West Africa Program
We are celebrating the movements, their accomplishments, and their political visions as we publicly announce the formalization of our West Africa program.
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Fighting for the Garifuna, in Honduras and the US
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.
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Planting Seeds by Building Youth Leadership
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.
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Mexico’s New Movement Institute for Indigenous and Peasant Youth
Grassroots International is honored to be a supporter of IALA Mexico and to be in long-term accompaniment of the movements behind it.
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Brazil’s Youth are Fighting for Their Lives
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.
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LGBTQIA+ Peasants in Struggle: Free Our Land, Free Our Bodies
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.
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New Resources on Building Grassroots Power for Climate Justice
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.
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Advancing Together Toward Food Sovereignty in 2022
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.
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Teaching Dissent, Building Mass Movements
This month, we are exploring the connection between popular education and movement building. Without radical education, there can be no radical practice.
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In 2022, Solidarity Remains Our Way Forward
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.
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The Truth is Revolutionary: New Colonialisms, Continuing Resistance
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.
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2021 in Review and Resistance
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.
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Rooting Climate Justice in Indigenous Resistance
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.
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Mobilizing People and Moving Money for Palestinian Rights
Now that a ceasefire has thankfully been called, Palestine will once again begin to fade from the headlines, and, unless we are vigilant, it will begin to fade from the collective consciousness until the next round of heightened attacks come. If we’re to break this cycle, Palestinians will need our sustained solidarity.
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Sowing a Feminist Future
March is a time in which we focus on women as the beating heart of social change. We joined allies and partners in launching the Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organizing School.
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Palestinian Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives
We need the people in the streets struggling for their rights and humanity that Palestinians are standing strongly with them, we consider their struggles as ours.
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COVID-19: Global Solidarity Across Movements
Join us for a webinar featuring Global South voices from Palestine, Puerto Rico, and the United States. What do frontline communities need for support, and what lessons can they teach?