by Patrick Bigger and Lorah Steichen
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Warmaking, and the industries that supply and profit from it, fuels the climate crisis. Only a reparative approach can begin to reverse militarization and environmental breakdown. War and militarism are...
Israel, with the U.S.ʼs financial and military support, is subjecting Palestinians in Gaza to apocalyptic conditions on top of the
worst bombardment in their history, with a daily death rate that is higher than any war of the 21st century....
Resist False Solutions to Climate Change THIRD EDITION 2021 In the 12 years since the second edition of Hoodwinked in the Hothouse was released as a pop-ed zine, practices and policies to address climate change have expanded and deepened false...
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Solidarity in the Time of Coronavirus Emerging Community Priorities from Florida Grassroots Organizations, Most accurate number of infections and deaths (CDC) Demands from Grassroots Organizers Concerning COVID-19 Stopping evictions and price-gouging in the coronavirus crisis Italy Suspending Mortgage Payments ...
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By the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) VOLUME 1: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance VOLUME II: A Popular Education Toolkit for Community Resistance...
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This May Day, It Takes Roots is honored to share our newest video- Venceremos: One Struggle, Many Fronts-highlighting movement leaders from Brazil, Nigeria, Mozambique, Haiti, Mexico, Ecuador, and more in our shared struggles in defense of life and Mother Earth....
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We, the people of the GGJ Delegation to Durban 2017, as members of climate-impacted communities in the United States, condemn the Durban delay as a disaster for all people and the planet. We bear witness to the fact that what...
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Grassroots Global Justice was honored to help coordinate an incredible delegation of grassroots leaders to COP23. Click here to see the powerful wrap up video made by Indigenous Rising Media. Here are a few highlights: We overshadowed the White House...
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There will be A Climate Change by Michael Leon Guerrero Being in South Africa for the COP 17 feels like home field advantage for those who fight for justice. I along with some of my colleagues from GGJ attended the...
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Video about the Detroit Just Transition Assembly hosted by East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC). Featuring brief interviews with Community to Community Development in Bellingham WA, Southwest Workers Union in San Antonio TX, and Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, MS. Produced...
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Quick Facts About the Dakota Access Pipeline:
Watch this video of Kandi Mossett, Indigenous Environmental Network, sharing the impact on the local communities of the “Man Camps” — camps of hundreds and sometimes thousands of men from the oil industry living in camps around the area....
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The Paris Climate Agreement of December 2015 is a dangerous distraction that threatens all of us. Marked by the heavy influence of the fossil fuel industry, the deal reached at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) never...
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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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GGJ Prepares for People’s Summit on Climate Change, Lima Peru December 2014 Check out outcomes, updates and more about the Cumbre, Road to Paris and Beyond. Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) is sending a delegation of 12 GGJ leaders ...
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The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) along with its staff, members, and allies served on the leadership team that helped organize the historic People’s Climate March and a series of other events during the People’s Climate Week, September 20-23, 2014. Several...
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From July 15 to July 18, 2014 the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela hosted social movement leaders and civil society members from around the world at La Isla Margarita for the International Preparatory Meeting for the Social PreCOP on Climate Change. “The...
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Two years ago on Dec. 18 in Tunisia the symbolic beginning of the Arab Uprising made its mark on the global stage; as the world witnessed a prairie fire of masses in the streets denouncing corruption in government, austerity cuts...
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Check out GGJ and ally-related post Rio media: Information on Summits The People’s Summit website offers a wealth of information about the Summit, organizing themes, events, and materials to prepare you for participation. Main themes include:
Solidarity statement on the murder of the human rights defenders in Brazil. Blogs and Social Media
La Minga Informativa, conjuntamente con la Convergencia de Comunicación de los Movimientos, está cubriendo la Cumbre de los Pueblos Rio+20 que inició el 15 de junio y que se extenderá hasta el 23 de junio. Entre los últimos ingresos en...
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COP17 succumbs to Climate Apartheid Antidote is Cochabamba Peoples’ Agreement Durban, S. Africa, 11 December, 2011 – Decisions resulting from the UN COP17 climate summit in Durban constitute a crime against humanity, according to Climate Justice Now! a broad coalition of...
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Within GGJ we’ve made the commitment to increase our own education on the politics of climate change disruption and the need for climate justice. At our February membership assembly and again at our September coordinating committee, GGJ members and leaders...
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