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.
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Climate Action Rooted in People, Soil and Mother Earth: Climate Justice
Rather than offering a “solution” to climate change, big hydro-electric dams are false solutions that endanger the planet with the methane emitted and threaten to destroy local ecosystems and cultures, like the Munduruku in Brazil. Thankfully the Munduruku linked up with the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) to resist.
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Tell TIAA to Get Out of the Land Grabbing Business
The major agent of global land grabbing is TIAA (formerly TIAA-CREF), a giant investment firm that manages pension funds for public employees of many respected institutions – municipalities, universities, museums, hospitals, even National Public Radio.
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Haiti’s Social Movements Chart Path for Nation’s Future
In response to government inaction and ineffectiveness, Haiti’s largest social movements have banded together to take command of the nation’s future. Haiti’s social movements recently joined hands in a historic show of unity and people power, putting the final touches...
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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.
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Water is Not a Commodity, Water Belongs to the People
Below is the declaration created from the latest Alternative World Water Forum that occurred on March 17-22, 2018, which several of our partners signed.
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America is Crying – The Struggle for Water in Latin America
On this World Water Day, we want to honor the movements in Latin America struggling for their human right to water.
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Donor-Activist Solidarity Group for Palestine
Are you looking to engage more directly in supporting frontline movements in Palestine? Are you outraged by the atrocities and violence funded by the US government in its support of Israeli settlements and military operations? Do you want to be...