Our Policy Director Adrien Salazar speaks about the link between militarization and climate change at the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn, Germany. “There’s nothing that the U.S. Government does outside of its borders that it hasn’t done to its people and ...
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Building Climate Justice: A UN Climate Meeting Report from the Frontlines, live from Bonn, Germany GGJ was on the ground with our It Takes Roots (ITR) delegation in Bonn, Germany in June 2023 for the intersessional UNFCCC meeting in the...
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Contact: media@ggjalliance.org
Following passage of dirty debt ceiling legislation in the House, an alliance of 60 U.S.-based frontline organizations demands Senate pass a clean debt ceiling bill.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, an organization representing...
Lawmakers Should Reject Mountain Valley Pipeline, Environmental Law Rollbacks
Credit: Appalachian Voices
Contact:
Jean Su, Center for Biological Diversity, (415) 770-3187, jsu@biologicaldiversity.org
Dr. Crystal Cavalier, 7 Directions of Service, (336) 530-0930, Crystal@crystalcavalier.com
Rev. Michael Malcom, People’s Justice Council, (678) 913-7477,...
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 our work in 2023. From the failed red wave in...
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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. This victory is a result of the organizing and leadership...
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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 and tortuous year of negotiations between Democratic leaders and the...
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[Español abajo] In the wake of the devastating Supreme Court ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion, we affirm that GGJ, along with our international feminist allies, will continue to fight for the bodily autonomy and...
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By Cindy Wiesner, Executive Director
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
A global embarrassment. A squandered opportunity. The headlines describe Biden’s failed Summit of the Americas (SOA), a convening meant for all the countries of the Americas and...
[Español abajo] We are sending our love and solidarity to all the families whose lives are right now being torn apart by the Russian military invasion of Ukraine and join the voices of antimilitarist movements around the world,...
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For Immediate Release Contact: Adrien Salazar, adrien@ggjalliance.org In response to the House passage of the Build Back Better Act, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance issued the following statement: Today the House passed the Build Back Better Act, a bill that reflects critical...
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GLASGOW, Scotland — At the conclusion of the 26th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, dozens of delegates representing workers, frontline climate justice communities, and environmental justice groups who made up...
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Glasgow, Scotland — As negotiations of the UNFCCC COP26 have concluded, the It Takes Roots alliance issues the following statement:
The Glasgow Climate...
Image Credits/Créditos de Imagen: Survival Media Agency This past summer, amidst relentless heat waves and hurricanes, violence against Haitian climate refugees at the border, and repression of water and land protectors, Congress debated an over $700 billion annual budget for ...
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Media Contact: Adrien Salazar, adrien@ggjalliance.org As Congress delayed a vote last night on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, blowing past an artificial deadline set by Democratic leaders, grassroots organizations urge members of Congress to continue to deliver on climate solutions, care...
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[Español abajo] As the last U.S. military planes carrying troops have left Afghanistan, it would be naive to assume that the war is “officially over.” The truth is this decades-long violence is far from over, and its impact...
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Photo by Louiza Vradi, courtesy World March of Women Download the declaration as a PDF We, the women of the World March of Women, a feminist, internationalist and anti-capitalist movement, stand in solidarity and echo our voices in repudiation...
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[Español abajo] “Haiti needs us right now. Communities are running out of water and food, and babies need diapers. People are in urgent need of shelters and blankets as Tropical Storm Grace complicates recovery, and it’s been raining ...
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Español abajo “It is critical that we lend our support to the Cuban people and condemn the immoral tightening of the restrictions on trade during a public health crisis caused by COVID-19. We have to raise our voices even louder...
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Photo credit: Rucha Chitnis Grassroots Global Justice Alliance responds to Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal: Congress Must Go Bigger and Bolder for Care, Racial Justice, and Climate Justice Contact: Rucha Chitnis, rucha [at] ggjalliance [dot] org Yesterday, after weeks of negotiations, senators...
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The Feminist Peace Initiative, led by Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, MADRE, and Women Cross DMZ, stands in international solidarity with the people of Palestine. We condemn the forced removal of Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, the desecration of...
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Español abajo Like you, we are witnessing ongoing racial and climate injustice that is met with false solutions, continued undervaluing of care work that sustains our communities, and now a global vaccine apartheid. We are reminded of what our movements...
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Photo: Alisdare Hickson Español abajo “What we’re seeing in Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza is an emboldened settler colonial project, protected by and militarily funded by the U.S. to perpetuate the violent repression, mass displacement and incarceration of Palestinians. When I ...
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Español abajo Grassroots Global Justice Alliance joins Congressmembers and 100 groups to back national effort pushing President Biden and Congress for an equitable and just recovery WASHINGTON, D.C.—Grassroots Global Justice Alliance lauded the introduction of the THRIVE Act by...
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GGJ Members Echo the Call of the Movement for Black Lives to Defund the Police and Pass the Breathe Act. “The verdict is a start, definitely a game changer. It’s bringing us some hope in the moment. And yet, we’ve...
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español abajo From Bangladesh to Brazil to the colonized territories in the U.S., this Earth Day we unite with our powerful members and global allies to say: All workers are essential. Mother Earth, too, is essential and racial justice is ...
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Now Let’s Connect the Dot Between the Forces of Neoliberalism that Stifle Farmers, from India to the U.S. A solidarity statement for the brave and historic protests in India from farmers, agroecology and food justice networks in the U.S. “We are ...
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“Now is the time to be visionary! The implications of climate change are global. The THRIVE Agenda offers the Biden-Harris administration a profound opportunity to take a bold step towards a just economy for people and the planet, one that ...
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We Now Need Accountability and a Bold Vision to Build a People’s Democracy “Real talk. The fanatical expression of white supremacy that you saw at the Capitol is the bedrock of this country. We’ve seen those faces our entire lives ...
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Español abajo This year GGJ turned 15! Fifteen years of radical reimaginations, of birthing movements and alliances, of growing and learning together, of weaving and visioning and building across issues with bold activists, care workers, elders, young people, women, Indigenous...
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Dear Community, The people decided! Our movements won this election. And we will keep winning. This election season has confirmed some fundamental truths—many of which GGJ members have known for the past 15 years, but are even more true today....
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Photo credit: Rucha Chitnis It’s been four long years. We have experienced the devastation of the Trump administration, and this year we have seen the level of deterioration and inadequacy of neoliberal governance under capitalism laid bare in the continued...
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Photo Credit: Margaret Kwateng *español abajo* The 2020 election was historic on many counts: a record number of people exercised their right to vote in the face of a global pandemic and explicit threats from white nationalists; we saw the...
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As GGJ’s members unequivocally condemn the appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, our grassroots feminist movements continue to fight for women’s bodily autonomy and LGBTQ rights. Kitzia Esteva-Martinez, Grassroots Feminisms National Organizer We are in the last push of...
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US Elections Impact the Planet and People Around the World Espanõl abajo “Although Palestinians cannot vote in upcoming US elections, we have a lot at stake,” said Nidaa Nassar, Executive Director of Baladna, an association of Arab youth that builds...
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Photo: Hendrik Voss, Climate Justice Alliance Español abajo GGJ joins peoples’ movements in Bolivia and Chile to celebrate breathtaking victories to defeat right-wing forces of fascism and dictatorship. This month in Bolivia, the Movement for Socialism (MAS), won the first ...
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Español abajo For Immediate Release: September 22, 2020 Washington, D.C– Last week a whistleblower complaint by Dawn Wooten, a nurse employed at a privately owned Irwin County Detention Center, revealed that high rates of hysterectomies were performed, some without...
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On the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, GGJ Stands with our partners at Women Cross DMZ calling for an end to the war, the reunification of separated families, and the establishment of a peace process that...
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International Declaration of People’s Movements and Organizations in solidarity with the Anti-Racist Rebellion in the United States We firmly denounce the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department and demand full and uncompromising justice for his family. We...
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Organizations and Global relatives are writing messages of solidarity and support of Black Lives Matter and the current uprisings in the United States: Read them below: Jornada Continental Jornada Continental por la Democracia y Contra el Neoliberalismo– En solidaridad...
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(English below) *Nosotrxs, el pueblo de Venezuela, nos sumamos a la lucha del pueblo de EEUU contra el racismo y la represión del régimen de Trump* Nosotrxs, el pueblo de Venezuela: ✔️ Manifestamos nuestro rotundo apoyo al pueblo de los...
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https://seguimosenlucha.org/ [Español/English] La Jornada Continental por la Democracia y contra el neoliberalismo manifiesta su solidaridad internacionalista con los pueblos de Estados Unidos que hoy resisten y se levantan ante el asesinato de George Floyd a manos de la policía de ese país...
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Grassroots Global Justice Alliance joins community voices from across North America and around the world collectively condemning the murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tony McDade in Tallahassee, Florida, Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and so...
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DONATE HERE “We have to make sure that in this moment of deep trauma and hopelessness, we don’t lose that radical imagination of what is possible.” -Cindy Wiesner, Executive Director, Grassroots Global Justice The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare and...
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This week, we honor the lives and freedom of Indigenous and Black women by fighting towards an economy where currency is the strength of our relationships, the integrity of our communities, the inherent value of individuals, the affirmation of life...
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On May 1st, thousands of people are taking matters into our own hands demanding #NoWorkNoRentNoDebt in hazardous conditions while the rich cash in on taxpayer-funded stimulus money.
The Trump state has shown incompetence and indifference to people’s suffering as over ...
NOTE: In February, three organizations — MADRE, Women Cross DMZ, and Grassroots Global Justice Alliance — convened a group of 23 women and gender nonconforming people from across the United States in order to engage in a cross-movement...
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We step into this moment with the collective and political clarity that no matter how each day unfolds, nothing will ever be the same. Our movements, our communities, our families, our realities, and our work will undoubtedly encounter deep shifts ...
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Español abajo Dear community, GGJ is deeply committed to being a part of the collective response to how we navigate this new terrain and leverage our collective power toward the survival needs of our people and our movements globally. We are in...
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We step into this moment with the collective and political clarity that no matter how each day unfolds, nothing will ever be...
VIRTUAL Feminist Organizing School for Funders: Application Due Date has passed – Friday August 14 (Scroll to the bottom of the page to see Frequently Asked Questions) Throughout history women, gender-oppressed Black, Indigenous & people of color across the...
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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 participated in both, 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...
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In July 2019, Marion Romero and Julio Sanchez participated in the Energy and Society in Contemporary Capitalism course offered by the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) in partnership with the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This...
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español abajo Grassroots Global Justice Alliance stands firmly with the Bolivian people to condemn the recent military and rightwing coup against the Indigenous leadership of President Evo Morales Ayma and the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party. We support the call ...
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español abajo Grassroots Global Justice Alliance stands firmly with the Bolivian people to condemn the recent military and rightwing coup against the Indigenous leadership of President Evo Morales Ayma and the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party. We support the call ...
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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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español abajo Solidarity with the Border Agricultural Workers Project and all of our relatives from El Paso to Mississippi We stand in grief and rage with our sisters, brothers, and familia in all border communities and communities of color facing...
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Today marks the 6th anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh, where over 1,000 people were killed and over 2,500 wounded while working in a textile factory under inhumane conditions. An overwhelming majority of the victims were women. ...
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español abajo Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Statement on Attempted Coup in Venezuela Grassroots Global Justice Alliance strongly condemns the aggression of the US government towards President Nicolas Maduro and the legitimate government of the Bolivarian Republic...
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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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by Keren Soffer Sharon & Zahara Zahav, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (June 13, 2016) Grassroots Internationalism is a core element of JFREJ’s Strategic Vision. This means tying domestic issues to their international causes and effects, starting with the...
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Grassroots Global Justice Alliance doesn’t normally organize around the electoral process. Our alliance represents a range of perspectives about how to engage in elections. While many of our members do strategic civic engagement work, others prioritize building self-governed community-led alternatives in...
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Black Lives Matter: The #ItTakesRoots #PeoplesCaravan from #RNC2DNC visits Freddie Gray’s community.
By Alberto Saldamando
Photography by Ayse Gursoz
On our way to Philadelphia we stopped for an afternoon at Tubman House, a community center in a burnt out, lowest...
People’s Caravan and the Police State Toby Fatzinger We are gathered in a circle getting to know each other over Mexican food in a one hundred year old Masonic center in Cleveland. It is the second day of the Republican...
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July 23, 2016
Rossmery Zayas, Communities for a Better Environment
“Jerry, Jerry Brown, shut it all down, right now.” These are the words that echoed the streets of Los Angeles on May 14th as I took part of the global...
On the need for grassroots internationalism.
“Everywhere we go/people want to know/ who we are/ so we tell them…”
By: Ronald Flannery, Organizer for the Southern Maine Worker’s Center
23/07/2016
While travelling from the RNC to the DNC on the...
“It is our Duty to take to the Streets & Go Beyond the Ballot Box”
By Leticia Arce
My name is Leticia and I am on the caravan as a delegate from Causa Justa :: Just Cause, a housing and...
“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.”
Macbeth
by Alberto Saldamando, July 23, 2016
I’m on a caravan going from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, and by bus to the Democratic...
7/20/2016
Waiting for the plane to Cleveland…
The first day of another part of my life! Not sure what to expect on all levels : politically, emotionally, socially. The Republican National Convention has been a debacle, thus far, of...
The COP21 Paris Accord failed humanity, and impacted communities must take things into our own hands and push at all levels of government. As impacted communities, we are deeply aware of the imperative of the climate crisis. Our waters are...
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Cancunhagen forces humankind to suicide! (Cancun, Mexico, December 11, 2010) The final outcome of the Cancun climate talks basically reflects the same negative outcome of the Copenhagen Accord in December, 2009. Therefore, it threatens the life of the Kyoto Protocol, but even more importantly, it...
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This past spring I was part of a two person delegation of GGJ members to the first ever International English Language Course on Political Training for Political Educators outside of Sao Paolo, Brazil. The 6-week course was coordinated by the...
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I had the opportunity to participate in the first “International English Language Course on Political Training for Political Educators”. The course was done at the Florestan Fernandes National School in Guararema, Brazil from March 23rd to May 2nd. I never...
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by Maggie Martin, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) I’ve tried, pretty successfully, to live a life without too much fear. Growing up I didn’t follow the rules of stranger danger. I talked to everyone I met, picked up hitchhikers,...
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UP with the People! Yeah, Yeah! And DOWN with Corporate capture! Boom Boom! Keep Our Fossil Fuels In the Earth! Yeah Yeah! And Throw Out False Solutions! Boom Boom! Chanting on that last day of the World Social Forum at...
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By Jessica Guerrero I am not accustomed to needing language interpretation or translation in my community, and it brought up a mixed bag of deep things for me to rely on this so heavily in Tunis. There was something, though,...
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By Claire Flanagan Over the past few days, here at the World Social Forum, many of us on the GGJ delegation have been attending and co-organizing events around the World March of Women. The World March of Women is a...
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by Adofo Minka El-Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) once said that travel helps to broaden one’s scope. I never exactly understood what he meant by that and this is likely attributable to the fact that until now, I had never...
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By Marcia Olivo I attended the Women’s Assembly at the World Social Forum 2015, being held in Tunis, Tunisia. The assembly began with powerful and inspiring speeches of women leaders from different countries. In the auditorium, an audience made of...
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by Sacajawea (Saki) Hall, Cooperation Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement While attending the People’s Summit on Climate Change in Lima, Peru as a member of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance delegation, my mind was focused on the relationship...
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Conferencia Internacional de Sistemas de Produccion Ecologica y Cambio Climatico by Arturo Trejo, Southwest Workers’ Union When I was introduced to agroecologia by the Roots of Change Cooperative in San Antonio, the concept seemed very simple; a discipline of climate...
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by Diana Lopez, Southwest Workers Union The Cumbre de los Pueblos in coordination with COP20 took place in Lima, Peru the second week of December. The summit split into 5 tracks which all addressed a piece of climate change, from...
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Part 1 of a series by Dania Flores – Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island Dania Flores is one of 12 members on the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance delegation to Lima, Peru for the People’s Summit on Climate Change. Monday...
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by Matt Feinstein, Worcester Roots Project COP 20, the Conference Of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is meeting in Lima, Peru to advance false solutions to climate change. These solutions are market-based...
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Summary, Analysis and Media by GGJ Delegate Members
By Ashley Franklin, Labor/Community Strategy Center, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) Ashley was one of two GGJ members who participated in the Grassroots International Travel for Change delegation to Palestine, from October 27-November 6, 2014. Delegates participated in the...
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By Rodrigo Rodriguez, SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP), Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) Rodrigo was one of two GGJ members who participated in the Grassroots International Travel for Change delegation to Palestine, from October 27-November 6, 2014. Delegates participated in the...
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by Sha Grogan-Brown, Grassroots Global Justice You probably heard this many times last week, but it’s worth saying again—the People’s Climate March on Sunday September 21, 2014 was a major historic event. It was historic because of the sheer numbers...
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by Matt Feinstein, Worcester Roots Project It takes roots to weather the storm, and these roots stretched across most of Manhattan on Sunday for the People’s Climate March (#PeoplesClimate). They then filled Wall Street with creative action and connected globally...
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by John Tieu: CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities The Our Power National Convening kicked off on August 6th, 2014 in Richmond CA, a diverse city that houses the Chevron Richmond refinery. This refinery is also one of the larger greenhouse gas...
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by Tom BK Goldtooth, Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network, and member of the GGJ Coordinating Committee As a delegate of GGJ to the International Preparatory Meeting for the Social PreCOP on Climate Change, held on the Isle of Margarita, Venezuela,...
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by Diana Lopez, Southwest Workers Union Recently I was selected to be part of a delegation attending a preparation meeting for the Social PreCOP scheduled for November in Venezuela. I was part of the Grassroots Global Justice delegation along with...
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Submitted by Ife Kilimanjaro, Co-Director of East Michigan Environmental Action Council Climate change is a geo-physical reality, the evidence of which is captured in numerous geologic formations around the world. The destabilization of natural climate and ecological systems that we...
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Tom BK Goldtooth, GGJ delegate, and Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network was a presenter on the thematic topic on Item III. Social Participation in Decision Making. This was part of the Mesa process on the second day of...
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The International Preparatory Meeting for the Social PreCOP on Climate Change taking
place July 15 to July 18 will basically discuss the effects and causes of climate change but mainly its to create solutions though unity and education. Social Movements...
As one of GGJ’s three delegates to the social pre-COP on climate change sponsored by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, i am glad to be part of the process of shaping, with others, the country’s official statement on climate change...
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GGJ members and allies have been arriving in Detroit since yesterday for our 6th Membership Assembly, hosted by East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC)! As an alliance, we look to Detroit for inspiring examples of how communities have responded...
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“Some of the most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time. And I think that’s where we are.” — The Honorable Chokwe Lumumba, Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, speaking ...
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By Sunyoung Yang I arrived last Wednesday in Caracas, during the peak of Venezuela’s right wing protests. Responding to the call for a “salida” by the opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, right wing students took to the streets burning educational and...
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by Edgar Franks, Community to Community Development, Bellingham, WA Food Sovereignty is the right for everyone to have access to healthy, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food. It is a human right that should not be commodified. The people’s right...
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By Jose Bravo, Just Transition Alliance and Sha Grogan-Brown, GGJ The week of action to End the WTO in Bali was truly a historical moment; we were up against the pillars of rampant greed and destruction. It had been 14...
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by Donna Truong, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities As someone still learning about our own movement in the United States, how we may increasingly strengthen our inter organizational networks, develop political analyses, and support our respective organizational efforts, I feel extremely...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 6, 2013
Reject carbon trading with food
Contacts: Indra Lubis, Via Campesina, SPI, +6281266660561 (Bahasa and English)
Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network, +62 812 3724 2271 – Indonesia
+ 1 218 760 0442 – USA
Denpasar,...
No WTO! No REDD!
No to using Rice for Carbon Markets!
December 6, 2013 ● Bali, Indonesia
We, the undersigned Indigenous Peoples, peasants, fisherfolks, immigrants, women, youth, cooks and civil society of the world gathered in Bali to protest the...
by Edgar Franks, Community to Community Many times we are asked about what does an alternative to capitalism and free trade look like? Trade has been part of our history and contributes to our human interaction. To be clear, the...
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By: Edgar Franks, Community to Community Development Solidarity between different fronts of struggle was apparent at the opening day of the #EndWTO Bali Week of Action. From the Philippines to Thailand to Korea to Africa, every speaker called out that...
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They say WTO! We Say Hell No! Bali here we come. GGJ is about to be on its way to Bali, Indonesia to support the Asian Social Movements in challenging the corporate guardian World Trade Organization (WTO). For this exciting...
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Erin Byrd, Black Workers for Justice “No there is no racism in Tunis. If they tell you there is they are lying. I have friends that are black, and they don’t mind when I call them n*gger”. This is a...
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by Kali Akuno, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement The World Social Forum (WSF) in Tunisia marked a critical turning point in the Social Forum Process. Throughout its history, the World Social Forum has gathered under the auspices of progressive governments, buttressed...
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by Rafael Hurtado, Little Village Environmental Organization (LVEJO), Chicago IL We come across problems each day of our lives. Sometimes we find the answer for these issues. Other times, we react by tending to our problems with false solutions,...
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“We will not stand idle. We will not allow the capitalist system to burn us all. We will take action and address the root causes of climate change by changing the system. The time has come to stop talking and...
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by Laura Muraida, Southwest Workers Union The series of bombings that rocked communities in Iraq and the U.S. recently have served as a reminder about the devastation of senseless attacks on civil society anywhere. In the wake of these horrific...
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By Elizabeth Jesdale, President of UE Local 255, the unionized workers at Hunger Mt Coop, member of UE General Executive Board, Steering committee member UE United Coop Workers, and member of GGJ delegation to WSF Abbreviations: GGJ – Grassroots Global ...
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Hiba Laameri is a 15-year-old Tunisian girl who attended the World Social Forum. Below is the lightly edited transcript of a short conversation with her after she participated in one of the sessions. I am 15 years old I am...
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Below is a lightly edited excerpt from a conversation with Marxist Economist Samir Amin during the World Social Forum in Tunisia. He answered questions about the continued relevance of the World Social Forum, and the current state of the Arab ...
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Wednesday kicked off the WSF Climate Space anchored by GGJ and framed by organizers, trade unions, faith communities, indigenous people, women, and others. The morning’s first session set the tone for connecting environmental struggles to the siloed social struggles we...
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Click here to check out the GGJ delegation in action in Tunisia...
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By GGJ WSF delegates Erin Byrd, Black Workers for Justice, and Miya Yoshitani, Asian Pacific Environmental Network “Sol-Sol-Sol – Solidarité!” was the chant from the crowd as the GGJ delegation squeezed into the packed amphitheater for the World Social...
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Tuesday March 26 GGJ joined tens of thousands in the streets of Tunis to mark the opening of the World Social Forum 2013. In this video, GGJ chants “Free, Free, Free Palestine! End, End, the Occupation” and is joined by...
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GGJ members took to the streets of Tunis today with tens of thousands from movements across the world to mark the beginning of the World Social Forum 2013! For many of us, it’s the first time we’ve been to Africa,...
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Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown Tunis on Tuesday in a spirited march celebrating the beginning the 13th World Social Forum – the first to be held in an Arab country. The majority of marchers were from Tunisia...
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Today marks the first full-day in Tunis for the GGJ delegation to the 2013 World Social Forum. Our delegation is made up of thirteen GGJ member organizations are represented by 22 individuals, and 5 allies, coming from 12 different cities...
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Reflections on internationalist solidarity, in preparation for the 2013 World Social Forum in Tunisia originally published on Organizing Upgrade by Maria Poblet “Hijab is part of our culture!” yelled a young woman in a gold and yellow “hijab” Muslim headscarf,...
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People’s Summit at Rio+20 for Social and Environmental Justice against Commodification of Life and in Defense of the Commons LET’S MOBILIZE IN RIO, IN YOUR REGION, IN YOUR CITY, IN YOUR COMMUNITY We, the movements and social organizations, must mobilize...
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SWOPista Marisol Archuleta recently sat down for an interview with her friend Walda Katz-Fishman, who just returned from the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal last week. Walda is a long-time activist and teacher, and founder of Project South, an...
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GGJ Members led a jam-packed interactive workshop at the Nato-Free Summit in Chicago on May 19th, the day before the NATO summit. The workshop kicked off with discussions of how immigration patterns around the world often follow war timelines, creating...
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As visitors to Brazil, because of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio +20, that took place in Rio de Janeiro, and as active participants in the discussions on sustainable development, as well as, in the activities planned...
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On the morning of the June 20th Global Day of Action, GGJ members joined La Vía Campesina and other social movements in a solidarity march through the Autódromo community of Rio de Janeiro to Rio Centro, the site of the...
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by Sha Grogan-Brown, for Grassroots Global Justice Alliance As the GGJ delegation returns back from Brazil this week, most reports on the unveiling of the “Green Economy” at Rio+20 are calling the UN conference at best a stalemate, if not ...
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Thousands of people were at the Cúpula dos Povos (People's Summit) for the opening of today's People's Assembly for Our Solutions with a "mystica" theater piece by La Vía Campesina depicting a victory for people and the planet.
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Grassroots Global Justice Alliance joined the MST (Landless Movement), La Vía Campesina, and other social movements from Brazil and across the world in the streets of Rio de Janeiro yesterday to protest the theatrics of the UN Rio+20 Summit that...
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At the People’s Summit in Rio, Brazil, I attended a very powerful and informative session on Women, Feminism, and Agroecology. Women had gathered from places such as Ecuador, Columbia, Brazil, Agentina, Costa Rica, Buenos Aires, and Morocco to discuss their...
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TOXIC TOUR: The Santa Cruz Steel Plant built by ThyssenKrupp is much more than a government handout of public funds to a private enterprise. During a Toxic tour offered by the “Mais Demodracia Institute”, in the town of Sao Fernando...
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RÍO+20: INCAPACIDAD POLÍTICA PARA ENFRENTARSE A LA CRISIS La Conferencia de Río+20 que hoy comienza no viene acompañada del cambio estructural en el modelo depredador actual. Al contrario, profundiza la crisis global y coloca a la humanidad al borde del ...
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The Grassroots Global Justice delegation hit the ground running this week in Rio de Janeiro. Corporations and government representatives from around the world have started to arrive, and thousands of civil society groups have made their way to Rio for...
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On Saturday March 15, the World March of Women coordinated a workshop on feminism, food and agroecology. Several women activists from around the world interwove these concepts with concrete experiences of their lives and the communities they represented. Several important...
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Buen Vivir! from Women, Feminism, and Agroecology session. “Nature is the mother of everything, its no coincidence She’s referred to as Mother. Earth gives life, Women give life. We are seeking complimentarity, our work is not valued as highly as...
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Here in Rio at the People’s Summit, I have been moved to tears several times this week. My mind is trying desperately to wrap itself around the contradictions it is experiencing, needing a logical resting place. I’m not sure that...
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Check out the video: Vandana Shiva – “The Earth is the Biggest Employer” I was inspired yesterday by Vandana Shiva at the People Summit. I only caught part of her speech where she states that “the earth is the...
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The US State Department needs to hear from you today! The global 1% is converging in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this June at the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to unveil their “Green Economy” strategy—but we know that...
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Just returning home from an impressive array of activities in response to the NATO Summit. The Coalition for a NATO-Free Future organized a counter-summit with some amazing speakers and workshops. The Iraq Veterans Against the War moved us all with...
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there are several things that i was deeply inspired by. namely, the work that local organizers did in Little Village to shut down 2 coal burning plants in the area. but there was also local youth working to shut down...
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so tired. my lungs still hurt from today’s industrial corridor trip. i’m fluctuating between being so sad i can hardly get out of bed, and inspired… fighting so fucking hard cuz we know we deserve more…little village activists shut down...
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the really great thing about this past week was the discussions that happened with other people of color organizers. one particularly important discussion happened around the oft cited logic by communities of color in the US that we have to...
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this past week, several of us went to chicago to participate in the No NATO/No Warming organizing leading up to the march on sunday. vijay prashad gave an excellent speech to open up the No NATO counter summit. a...
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Thanks to the chant team, participants in the IVAW/CAN-G8 march on Sunday May 20 had plenty to add to the thousands of other voices. Below are just a few of them. Chant 1 No War! No Warming! Build the People’s...
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Grassroots Global Justice Alliance has brought a delegation of organizers, activists and community members to participate in the Counter Summit for Peace and Economic Justice, a counterpole to the convergence of the G8 and NATO summits being held at Camp...
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The opening plenary of the Counter Summit for Peace and Economic Justice underscored not only that we must, as a country, shift our priorities away from war and militarism and towards peace, justice, and whole and thriving communities–it also highlighted...
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Today GGJ delegates joined hundreds of nurses, Iraq war veterans, Chicago community members and members of the international labor community to say “We want our money back!” In a spirited rally at Daley Plaza today, the energy was high as...
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The Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) is a national alliance of grassroots organizations building a popular movement for peace, democracy and a sustainable world. We support each other’s local struggles and collaborate with international allies who share our vision and...
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Report by Cindy Wiesner In July of 2012 GGJ participated in a delegation organized by Engaged Donors for Global Equity (EDGE Funder Alliance, formerly known as FNTG) to the preparatory assembly and WSF (World Social Forum) International Council meeting in...
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Katu Arkonada esp- El recientemente finalizado Foro Social Mundial nos ha dejado, una vez más, sensaciones agridulces. Probablemente como nunca antes se han visibilizado los límites y contradicciones del sistema foro, de un proceso en crisis tratando de encontrar su...
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by Michael Leon Guerrero, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance I attended four sessions related to the future of the World Social Forum process. The first two were organized by Jai Sen of the India Institute for Critical Action: Centre in Movement...
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Report by Cindy Wiesner In July of 2012 GGJ participated in a delegation organized by Engaged Donors for Global Equity (EDGE Funder Alliance, formerly known as FNTG) to the preparatory assembly and WSF (World Social Forum) International Council meeting in...
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COP 16 ends: Cancun climate change talks disappoint global expectations* In the early morning hours of December 11, 2010 a COP 16 Accord was announced. However the text of this Accord did not represent an advance on what came out of...
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No agreement is better than a bad agreement: The people hold thousands of solutions in their hands Global Forum for Life, Environmental and Social Justice (December 4-10, 2010) (Photos, videos, news at www.viacampesina.org) Members of La Vía Campesina from more...
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Statement by the Indigenous Environmental Network
Cancún Betrayal: UNFCCC Unmasked as WTO of the Sky
Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis Will Come From Grassroots Movements
Cancún, Mexico — As representatives of Indigenous peoples and communities already suffering the immediate...
