On the road to our May 2020 convening, It Takes Roots launched an ITR political education online training series focused on ITR alliances’ core political frameworks and theories of change.
GGJ’s Grassroots Feminisms organizers led us in discussing Grassroots Feminism....
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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Ni golpe a las mujeres, ni golpe imperialista al pueblo
La Red de colectivos La Araña Feminista- MMM Venezuela manifiesta su apoyo al hilo constitucional en Venezuela, representado en el Presidente Nicolás Maduro Moros, elegido el 20...
español abajo Donald Trump is a racist, misogynist and a sexual predator who is using the power of his office to nominate another misogynist and sexual predator, Brett Kavanaugh, to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh is a virulent opponent of reproductive...
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español abajo Thank you for joining us at our March 20th Webinar to hear from social movement leaders from Haiti, Honduras, Miami, and Venezuela on their ongoing struggles against US intervention and organizing Afro-descendant and Feminist resistance. GGJ will continue...
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Piper Carters Reflection on Women’s March Delegation DC 2019 Gender equity and racial justice are tightly interwoven historically, and currently Black, Brown, & Indigenous Women’s bodies, livelihoods, and opportunities have been and are heavily policed. Women of color are at...
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Maggie Martin of About Face: Iraq Veterans Against the War shares with us how even US military CAN resist militarization of the border and join the long tradition of #conscientiousobjectors by refusing to be deployed on an immoral mission that ...
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From December 16-22, 2018, a small group of It Takes Roots members took part in a delegation to Tijuana, Mexico to visit with members of the exodo (caravan) and allies on the ground. We spent a week relationship-building, helping strengthen...
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Hear about plans for the It Takes Roots Solidarity to Solutions Week (Sol2Sol) from September 8-14, 2018 to spotlight frontline community solutions parallel to the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS). Moderated by It Takes Roots Coordinator Maya Bhardwaj. Speakers include:...
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On Wednesday, September 12, 2018 as part of its Solidarity to Solutions Week, It Takes Roots- together with the funder-allies from the Funders Support Circle hosted the People’s Orientation to the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) at the International Hotel...
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We, the people of the Grassroots Global Justice Delegation to COP17, 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...
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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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In this age of the global rise of the right wing, misogyny is being normalized, reproductive rights are being threatened, and hate crimes are increasing. The Feminist Organizing School provides a space for grassroots leaders to create a shared vision...
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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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The first hour is GGJ National Coordinator Cindy Wiesner interviewing Sophie Ogutu, leader of the World March of Women-Kenya chapter and member of the International Committee, about Building an Internationalist Feminist Movement. During the last half hour, three GGJ members...
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It Takes Roots to Grow the Resistance is a multiracial effort led by women & gender oppressed people of color and Indigenous peoples on the frontlines of racial, housing and climate justice across the country. Coming out of our arc...
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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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In 2016, Got Green and Front and Centered hosted a Just Transition Assembly. Check out the program below as a toolkit for organizing Just Transition Assemblies as vehicles for organizing towards systems change!...
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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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Posted on Mon, 03/12/2012 – 9:16pm NATO & G8 Meet in the United States in May 2012 2012 is the first time since 1977 and the crises of the 1970s that NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and G8 (Group of...
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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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Below is a sample of some of the analysis, reports and declarations that came out of WSF 2011.
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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