Testimonials

Siwatu – demilitaRISE

“The transformation of our communities today are birthed from our abolitionist dreams! So having a world free from prisons, police and poverty is a dream I know we will one day see.”...

Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organizing School

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“I stand with survivors and vehemently stand against the appointment of a sexual predator to the Supreme Court. Everything Brett Kavanaugh stands for is in direct contradiction with gender justice, women’s rights, and reproductive justice. He has fought women every...

Rachel Vernon on Standing Rock

“Pam’s reflection just made me thinking about the 1920’s oil extractions from Indian country, in particular in this section of the country. Which caused all sorts of issues, in reference to checker-boarding of reservations (privatization), increased violence, for some wealth,...

Pam Tau Lee on Standing Rock

“My big takeaway from Standing Rock is how to challenge the theme JOBS VERSUS ENVIRONMENT. As I was leaving Bismarck for home, I was struck by the local pride in oil drilling.  “Drill Baby Drill!” and “North Dakota Oil Country”...

Derek Mathews on Militarism

“The US military, and militaries across the world, help enforce extractive economies. When people in local communities and frontline communities are trying to build movements to keep extractive corporations from taking the resources out of their lands, it is the...

Linda Lee – Standing Rock & Berta

“We arrived Tuesday evening to Standing Rock where we met up with folks from the Indigenous Environmental Network. On Wednesday, we supported cooking and food prep for the hundreds of folks camping, as well as the rebuilding the kitchen of...

Kitzia E – Movement Building

“Inside the belly of the beast we have a specific role to play because we are inside the country that is making the big moves across the globe – really the leader in pushing the neoliberalist agenda and destroying the ...

Pam Tau Lee on Movement Building

“Movement building aims to form authentic, lasting solidarity across race, class, gender, sector and place through shared practice, study, reflection and visionary leadership. Intentional movement building work that ties all our fights and energies together is what will win victories...

Cindy W – Now is Our Time

“…to be unapologetically Left, to capture hearts and minds with a political program of alternatives. It’s our time to win.”...

Ana Orozco

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 not...

Tom Goldtooth

“The struggle for the well-being and future of our local communities is also linked to a global scale of grassroots organizing and alignment in all places, particularly in frontline battlegrounds where the stakes are the highest. We are taking action...

Grassroots Feminism

“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 not...

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“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.”...