Our Story

NAFTA. WTO. Battle of Seattle.

These are the conditions that birthed Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ). In 2002, after a delegation of U.S. base-building organizers returned from the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, they decided to create an alliance that focused on movement building here in the U.S. while also strengthening international solidarity.

Since then, GGJ has grown to encompass more than 60 U.S.-based grassroots organizing groups comprised of working class communities and communities of color. GGJ brings base-building organizations into a long-term process of relationship building, political alignment, and transformational leadership development. We build a bridge between U.S.-based organizations and global social movements working for climate justice, gender justice, an end to war, and a just transition to a feminist, anti-racist, regenerative economy.

Through all our programs, GGJ aims to strengthen movement building by engaging four meta-strategies:

Political development: Growing our members’ understanding and practice of a shared politic and strengthening the ability to make meaning of this political moment through that conjunctural analysis.

Movement coherence and alignment: Building the ability of the grassroots left to act together and lead in broader social movements in the U.S. and globally.

Testing our ideas and power: Organizing our members to put our shared vision into practice by contending for social, economic, narrative, and governing power.

Resource mobilization: Growing GGJ’s base of resource support from institutional philanthropy, individual donors, and other forms to support our alliance’s powerful work and to move greater resources to the grassroots organizing sector.

Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) is a multiracial, multisectoral alliance of more than 60 member organizations in the grassroots organizing sector building a popular movement for peace, democracy, and a sustainable world. Our work is intergenerational, gender expansive, and visibilizes the leadership of women, gender non-conforming people, LGBTQ+ folks, and historically marginalized people in the U.S.: Black, Latine, Asian Pacific Islander, Arab, and white working class people.