Hi Friend,

Solidarity in Action: 40 Years of Keeping it Radical!

Registration for our 40th Anniversary Celebration closes this Friday, September 15!  

Already more than 150 friends, colleagues and supporters have registered to join us in-person at the Museum of Science in Boston, MA, Saturday September 23, 2023 from 3-7 pm, on traditional Massachusett territory.

Fee includes access to museum exhibits, food, parking, presentations, entertainment and camaraderie!

Dania Patricia Hernandez is the Director of the Community Work Team of the Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, COPINH). The COPINH Community Work team is in charge of monitoring, training and organizing the Indigenous communities of the Lenca people.

Camilo Bermúdez is the Director of Strategic Litigation and Management of COPINH. His work focuses on the development of justice processes for Berta Cáceres and the Lenca People. He promotes international solidarity with Honduras and Indigenous communities.

Cornelius Blanding is the Executive Director of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund. Born out of the Civil Rights movement, the Federation is a regional cooperative and rural economic development organization serving a membership of Black farmers, landowners, cooperatives, and other low-income rural people in the US South with coop development, land retention, and advocacy.

Juslene Tyresias is the Coordinator of the Economic Committee and member of the Executive Committee of the Mouvman Peyizan Papay (Papaye Peasant Movement, MPP). Formed in 1973, the Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP) is the oldest and among the most important local peasant movements in Haiti.

Abdul-Nassir Farraj is an agricultural economist with close connections to farmer and peasant movements in Palestine. Farraj has a deep understanding of the complexities of the Middle East and more specifically the Palestinian context.

 

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors and supporters for making this year a cause for celebration!

Internationalist

Radical Imagination Family Foundation

Sustainability Partners

Radical Accompanier

The Casey and Family Foundation

Solidarity Champion

Alice Rothchild

Additional support thanks in part to the following:

Roy and Patricia Disney Foundation

New England Biolabs Foundation

 

Unable to attend in person? Please consider a donation to continue our work instead!

Please direct your questions about the celebration to [email protected].

We look forward to celebrating with you!

Executive Director

 

Grassroots International
179 Boylston Street, 4th Floor  | Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130
(617) 524-1400 | [email protected]

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