Longtime GGJ member, Migrant Justice, has been running their powerful Milk with Dignity Campaign since 2014 after Vermont dairy workers conducted an in-depth survey to document the top workplace and housing issues in the industry. Workers then converted these ...
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Today, we hold close to our hearts the memories and lives of the 1,100 women garment workers who died in the collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh in 2013. In their honor, we continue to struggle for dignified lives and...
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Racial Justice Has No Borders – Militarization in a time of Pandemic Town Hall Webinar
“From California to NY, we’ve already seen actions to advance the release of many people. It’s a good start, but we want to release everyone....
Dear GGJ Members and Supporters, GGJ is a member of this new coalition of communities impacted by war and militarization. Several of our members and close allies will present on this Town Hall on the eve of the Wisconsin Primary...
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español abajo Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) joins with our members and allies from racial justice and migrant rights, climate and gender justice movements calling for – NO WAR ON IRAN AND IRAQ! Trump’s actions have placed us all in...
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It Takes Roots participates in Santiago to support the Chilean social movements and uprisings throughout Chile and in Madrid, Spain for the UN Climate Talks- the UN COP25 The 25th annual UN Conference of Parties (COP25) to the United Nations...
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Grassroots Global Justice Alliance strongly condemns the October 12th killing of Atatiana Jefferson by Officer Aaron Dean, a member of the Fort Worth, TX police department. Atatiana, who was 28 years old, was at home playing video games with her...
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From November 22-26, 2016 a multiracial national delegation of over 100 representatives from 20 movement organizations for social, economic, climate and environmental justice went to Standing Rock in a show of solidarity for indigenous survival and sovereignty as leaders on...
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On March 2nd 2016, people around the world grieved the loss of social movement leader Berta Cáceres. Berta co-founded COPINH (Civic Council of Grassroots and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras). Her assassination was a direct result of her organizing to defend...
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Rio+20 UN Conference a Failure, People’s Summit a Step Forward June 15-23, 2012: GGJ brought a delegation of 16 people to Rio de Janeiro for the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, the Rio+20 Cúpula dos Povos (People’s Summit), and...
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“This is a turning point, and this is a real victory, for us as Native people that have lived through genocide. And we’re still here! And we’ve never changed our story over 500 years: that you have to take care...
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GGJ Prepares for People’s Summit on Climate Change, Lima Peru December 2014 Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) is sending a delegation of 12 GGJ leaders to the People’s Summit on Climate Change COP 20 in Lima, Peru from December 8–11, ...
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Our duty is to organize the whole population affected by dams in Brazil while exposing the contradictions of this society. If from one side, the companies and the governments choose to follow a principle of commodification of water, energy, and...
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Starting October 12, following the release of Donald Trump’s 2005 interview with Billy Bush of “Access Hollywood” where he brags about grabbing women “by the pussy” without consent, women of color and their allies across the country started a wave...
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January 19, 2019 marked the third annual Women’s March. Once again, GGJ led a grassroots feminist contingent representing the US chapter of the World March of Women. The organizations that made up the delegation were: Activist San Diego, Causa Justa::Just...
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On March 2nd 2016, people around the world grieved the loss of social movement leader Berta Cáceres. Berta co-founded COPINH (Civic Council of Grassroots and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras). Her assassination was a direct result of her organizing to defend...
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“At this moment of growing feminist resistance, we are unapologetically left, and insist on grassroots feminism. A new generation of women of color and gender non-conforming leaders is stepping forward to defend our dignity and our future. We are ...
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The Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Right to the City Alliance, which together form the It Takes Roots Coalition, travelled from the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Mozambique, the Philippines,...
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