Celebrating left victories from California to Pennsylvania to Brazil
Election Defenders turning out the midterm vote. Photo by The Frontline As we approach the end of the year, we are reflecting on the midterm elections and its implications for…
Updates & Analysis
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Statement on the Removal of Manchin’s Dirty Energy Permitting Bill from Government Spending Package
A Victory For and By the Frontlines Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, Senator Chuck Schumer removed Senator Joe Manchin’s dirty energy permitting bill from the Continuing Resolution in the U.S. Senate.…
GGJ statement in response to the Inflation Reduction Act: This is not a climate justice bill
Washington, D.C. – The Inflation Reduction Act introduced by Senate Democrats in a deal with coal baron Senator Joe Manchin is a bad deal for frontline communities. After a long…
Our Work
Global Wellbeing
Buenvivir (or “well-being” / “living well”) is an age-old concept that became more globally popularized after the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in April 2010. Members of Grassroots Global Justice felt a deep...
Grassroots Feminism
BUILD A JUST TRANSITION TO A FEMINIST ECONOMY What is Grassroots Feminism? Grassroots feminism is a worldview and political practice rooted in the realities and interests of women, queer, trans, and non binary people who have been harmed by the...
demilitaRISE
DemilitaRISE is a working group bringing together GGJ members who are involved in grassroots organizing or people impacted by U.S. militarism, both at home through police and ICE violence, occupied Indigenous lands, racial profiling, mass incarcerations and detention, and globally...
Movement Building
Building the Bigger WE GGJ is committed to engaging in grassroots movement building to strengthen collective alignment and power. While we remain rooted in the critical organizing happening at the local level, given the scope of the challenges we face, ...
Testimonials
"GGJ offers the opportunity for a platform of a transnational and global character that is not just about one movement, but many struggles that are part of one."
— Isabel Vinent Grimany, Deputy Director, Florida Immigrant Coalition
Featured Programs
Care jobs are green jobs video
[Español abajo] On July 13, 2021, care workers marched in Washington, D.C. to demand Congress pass a budget that invests in care workers and climate. #CareIsEssential #CareCantWait #TimeToTHRIVE “Care work…
GREEN NEW DEAL
A GREEN NEW DEAL FROM THE FRONTLINES Frontline communities have long held solutions to the climate crisis. Black, Brown, API, Indigenous, and working class communities in the United States and…
Featured Resources
Just Transition Primer
We are releasing From Crisis to Transformation: A Just Transition Primer in collaboration with the Transnational Institute, co-authored by Kali Akuno, Katie Sandwell, Lyda Fernanda Forero, and Jaron Browne. We are excited to share this report in Arabic, Spanish...
‘CHASING CARBON UNICORNS’ REPORT
Powerful actors are using “net zero” pledges to hide their climate inaction. Stopping the climate crisis requires us to stop burning fossil fuels – no magical thinking will solve this problem, just immediate action and system change. But transnational...
A PEOPLE’S ORIENTATION TO A REGENERATIVE ECONOMY
PROTECT, REPAIR, INVEST, TRANSFORM The intersecting crises of income and wealth inequality and climate change, driven by systemic white supremacy and gender inequality, has exposed the frailty of the U.S. economy and democracy. This document was prepared during the COVID-19...