Knowing their Audience: Popular Media and Education for Movement Building in Haiti
From radio to popular education, our partners like Haiti's Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP) use methods that are sensitive to the people they’re reaching.
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Black August: Local Struggles, Global Solidarity
BOLD program-alum Natasha Soto discusses building a local organization in the Movement for Black Lives, and what she learned from our delegation to Haiti. Natasha organizes in Just Resisting Buffalo and Black Love Resists in the Rust.
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Black August: Resistance Shared Across Borders and Time
We're continuing our Black August series of Haitian delegation members. In this installment, Grassroots board member Ninaj Raoul discusses the importance of sharing history and resistance across borders.
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Black August: A Lesson in Solidarity in Practice
Grassroots International is commemorating Black August with a series of reflections from our recent delegation to Haiti. Gina Athena Ulysse is a feminist artist-anthropologist-activist and self-described Post-Zora Interventionist, and she currently teaches anthropology at Wesleyan University.
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Black August: Seeing Hope and Sticking to It
Grassroots International is commemorating Black August with a series of reflections from our recent delegation to Haiti. Marie Helene Fabien Hall lives in Jackson, Mississippi and supports Cooperation Jackson, a Black and Latinx cooperative economics movement and fellow member of the Climate Justice Alliance.
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Sharing Lessons in the Black Diaspora: Black Women Lead Delegation to Haiti
This week, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) and Grassroots International are leading a delegation in Haiti. A group of U.S.-based Black female organizers and activists are travelling the country, meeting with Grassroots International partners and sharing lessons of resistance.
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Solidarity, not Charity: Caribbean Emergency Fund Update
The Caribbean is still picking up the pieces from last year's hurricane season. Thanks to your support for our Caribbean Hurricane Emergency Fund, we raised over $185,000 for recovery, resilience, and resistance. Read more about some of the amazing work you supported.
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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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Photo Blog: Agroecology Practices and Product Fair
A photo blog of the Agroecology Practices and Product Fair of the “Buen Vivir with Respect” international learning exchange in Chiapas, Mexico.
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Haitian Independence Day: Land, Human Rights and Labor
Far from hapless victims, Haitians have a vibrant history of resistance. On January 1st, 1804 Haiti won its independence and was the first to defeat the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. As Grassroots celebrates this movement and the victories it won, this history remains relevant for organizing around the world today.
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Black Lives and Climate Justice: Courage and Power
Grassroots staff member Sara Mersha shares examples of the leadership of Black communities and social movements in the struggle for climate justice, in a recent article published in Third World Quarterly.
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Shared Injustice, Shared Struggle on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
November 29th is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. These days, the global Palestinian solidarity movement has deepened and grown with powerful expressions of joint struggle with other movements around the world.
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Movement Building at the Heart of Haitian Peasants’ Response to Climate Change
The Peasant Movement of Papaye is leading the way towards a new Haiti centered on food sovereignty and climate justice.
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Agroecology and Why We Should Care About It
We are learning from our partners that there's another way to produce food that can heal and restore communities and the planet – agroecology.
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Emergency Fund for Haiti Hurricane Relief and Rebuilding
Hurricane Matthew made a direct hit on Haiti on October 4, pounding the island nation with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph. The first Category 4 storm to hit Haiti in more than 50 years, the cyclone assaulted the precarious infrastructure and flooded the denuded countryside. As Rosnel Jean Baptiste from Tet Kole explains: "Haiti is a very vulnerable country -- and because of our vulnerability hurricanes do not pass by without doing terrible damage."
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Sustainable Livelihoods
Haiti’s Peasant Movement of Papaye are building solutions to food and water crises in Haiti’s embattled Central Plateau, and expanding agroecological farming methods.
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Celebrating Mothers from the Movements
This Mother’s Day we celebrate three women who find the courage to overcome the great adversity they face as they work to improve the lives of their families and of their communities. Juslene, Esperanza and Samiha are three inspiring mothers who, working with Grassroots International’s partners in Haiti, Honduras and Palestine, are key leaders within their communities.
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Supporting Water Rights Around the World
March 22nd is International World Water Day and it serves as a reminder that water has not yet become a human right, and that millions continue to be denied access to water or have difficulty obtaining a fresh supply on a daily basis.
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Climate Solutions from the Ground Up
For small farmers, climate change feels like “the sun is getting closer.” That’s what Ginette Hilaire says, and she goes on to describe the escalating droughts, floods and other climate events that she and her community are experiencing with new intensity. “The seasons have completely changed,” she added.
But Ginette and others in her Haitian community are not merely enduring these hardships. They are working to address the root causes, adapt to the changes and put forward workable solutions.
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Black Lives & Climate Justice: From Haiti to New Orleans to Boston
Scores of people – showing a great diversity of races, ages and backgrounds – packed into the room to look together at the connections between climate justice and Black Lives Matter, and how these movements present themselves in the experiences of Haiti, New Orleans and elsewhere. More people spilled out into the hallway, illustrating how ready people were to hear the powerful words coming from inside: everyone matters and has a role in the struggle for human rights and the survival of the planet.