Grassroots International has long funded and supported the Landless Workers Movement's Paulo Freire Training Center in Pernambuco, Brazil. The Landless Workers Movement is now opening up the center as a field hospital for coronavirus patients.
Judge Manoel Erhardt suspended the eviction order for the Paulo Freire Training Center in the Normandia Landless Workers Movement settlement.
Brazil agribusinesses' use of pesticides, genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) and Amazon fires are driving climate change. Agroecology is the alternative.
The following statement comes from our partner, Via Campesina, speaking out against the deliberate fires set in the Amazon rain forest.
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).
João Pedro Stedile outlines the issues leading up to the Brazilian coup, life under Bolsonaro's rule, and a vision for a new agrarian program in Brazil.
Grassroots International supports agroecology (farming methods rooted in traditional food growing knowledge) to counter the global dominance and damage of plantation-style agriculture.
Piper Carter, a member of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and photographer, joined our delegation to Brazil. Her photoblog shows off our partners' joy, hope, and strength amid dark times.
Tarso Ramos, a member of our recent Brazil delegation, reports back from witnessing the ongoing resilience and resistance of social movements amid dark times.
With a broken heart but whole spirit, I remember the names of some of our friends, colleagues, allies and partners who have left us all too soon. They join the host of ancestors urging me onward, because the journey toward justice is not yet finished.
We received the following letter from our partner the Landless Workers Movement (MST) as they reflect on their 35-year history and their commitment to continuing the struggle for justice in Brazil.
A look at the successes Grassroots International and our partners have had in 2018 — including a dramatic increase in our solidarity and impact.
Grassroots International signed onto the following statement, joining 45 other environmental, human rights, labor and civil society organizations. We stand in solidarity with our partners, and all people and grassroots movements, facing down threats.
Grassroots International joins our partners in Brazil and people of conscience worldwide in condemning the brutal murders of two leaders of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in the Dom José Maria Pires agrarian reform encampment, in Alhandra County, Paraiba, Brazil.
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.
Movement leaders in Brazil, including Grassroots International partner the Landless Workers Movement, are conducting a hunger strike to defend democracy. Volunteer Leonie Rauls writes about the struggle to release former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from prison so he can stand in the upcoming national elections.
Grassroots International and the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil are supporting new projects to develop independent news sources that tell the workers’ and peasants’ side of the story.
