Q+A with Ayman Nijim, Solidarity Program Officer for the Middle East
Ayman Nijim, Solidarity Program Officer for the Middle East at Grassroots International, answers questions about what's happening in Palestine.
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We Denounce the West Bank Annexation
We join our partners and allies to condemn the “Land Theft of the Century” against Palestinians who have lived in the West Bank for generations.
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Seeds of Resistance: Palestinian Farmers Fight Against Annexation and Pandemic
The violent Israeli encroachment and annexation of Palestinian land is putting the future of the West Bank and its residents in an extremely vulnerable position.
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Movement Poem: “the tools that those frogs spoke about by the fire”
In a world where there seems to be infinite peoples reclaiming their rebel dignity, reclaiming their collective agency from a corrosive system, what I felt in writing this piece was that sense of grounding and capturing a convergence of people power in my communities back in California and the joy found in Florida those days.
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Berta Cáceres Murder: Sentencing and Struggle
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.
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VICTORY! Justice Suspends Eviction Order of Paulo Freire Training Center
Judge Manoel Erhardt suspended the eviction order for the Paulo Freire Training Center in the Normandia Landless Workers Movement settlement.
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Amazon Fires are a Crime Against Humanity
The following statement comes from our partner, Via Campesina, speaking out against the deliberate fires set in the Amazon rain forest.
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Court Suspends Eviction of Landless Workers Movement Encampment
The Court of Justice of São Paulo (TJSP) suspended for 90 days the order of repossession of the area including the Marielle Vive! encampment organized by Grassroots International's Brazilian partner the Landless Workers Movement (MST).
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Why the Dangers Facing Our Oceans Go Far Beyond Keeping Them Clean
If we’re serious about protecting our oceans and the life beneath them, our vision needs to expand. As Miriam Miranda, coordinator of OFRANEH, has said, “If the problem is global, we have to have a global response.”
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Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing When Communities Defend Environment
Our allies in MiningWatch Canada released a new report on how corporations are suing communities in Latin America for defending their land and environment against extraction.
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Witnessing Nigeria’s Resilience: Oil’s Attacks on Water, Food, and Family
After graduate fellow Nicholas Johnson and Solidarity Program Officer Mina Remy attended the "Water Is a Human Right" summit, they visited the front lines in Nigeria. Nicholas describes the contamination these grassroots communities are facing, and the resistance they are waging.
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“Our Water, Our Right”: The Struggle for Justice in Nigeria
Our graduate fellow Nicholas Johnson writes about what he witnessed in Nigeria. Nicholas provides context for the current water justice struggles in the country and recounts the national “Human Right to Water” summit.
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Transforming Weapons of Death into Beacons of Life: Reflections this Palestinian Land Day
As we stand in solidarity with Palestinians this Land Day, let’s also hold our own government and industries accountable for the suffering and human rights violations they are enabling. And let's remember the courage and creativity to transform weapons of death into beacons of life, on canister at a time.
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Photo Blog: Environmental Justice in Nigeria
In January 2019, Grassroots International Solidarity Program Officer Mina Remy and our graduate fellow Nicholas Johnson visited Nigeria. The second of the two-part photo-blog series looks at environmental justice struggles at the grassroots.
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World Water Day Stand Out in Boston
March 22 is 'World Water Day.' Join our World Water Day Stand Out to draw attention to the way Israel uses water as a weapon against the Palestinian people. We will have banners and signs - but feel free to bring your own highlighting other issues of water injustice!
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Guatemalan Communities Steadfast in Resistance to Mining Project
We continue to stand in solidarity with the Guatemalan communities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc in their peaceful resistance to the Progreso VII Derivada gold project.
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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.