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September 2024 eNewsletter

Weaving Together Healing and Liberation

In May of 2024, our team traveled to Guatemala to visit our movement partners, with a focus on learning more about their grassroots feminisms and healing justice work. We heard stories of resistance and active hope and were inspired by the fierce determination of people struggling in community for a better world.

 

VIDEO: Learning from Brazil's Social Movements

In July, a group of Grassroots International staff members and donor-activists traveled to Brazil to connect directly with some of our long-term social movement partners on the frontlines of resistance to corporate agriculture and extractive mining.

 

Gathering to Build Justice and Popular Sovereignty Beyond Borders

Social movement delegates from across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe gathered in late July at the popular education hotspot, Havana’s Centro Martin Luther King Jr., to deepen their shared knowledge and experience in the struggle against corporate control over lands, waters, territories, energy, and other basic rights.

 

A New Framework for Trade Based on Food Sovereignty

This edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter calls for an end to the exploitative model of capital expansion through free trade agreements. It explores the urgent need to break the hegemony of free trade and build an alternative that upholds solidarity and internationalism, and respects the diversity, autonomy, and food sovereignty of nations and communities.

 

Funders for Ceasefire Releases New Statement

Institutional funders, individual donors and philanthropy professionals organized under Funders for Ceasefire have just a released a new statement.

In the absence of a ceasefire agreement, the regional war we all feared is now unfolding.

 

Visualizing Palestine's New Book

We are deeply grateful to our ally Visualizing Palestine for releasing their new book through Haymarket Books.

As a new generation of movement-builders seek to understand Israel’s brutal, illegal occupation of Palestine, Visualizing Impact’s vivid and informative graphics over the course of 200 pages reveal deep truths about the decades-long Palestinian struggle for freedom.

 

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