Grassroots International

June 2020 e-Newsletter

IN THIS ISSUE: In Defense of Black Life || Palestinian in Solidarity with BLM || Seeds of Resistance || Movement Poem || Africa Says, "I Can't Breathe" || MST Agrarian Reform 

In Defense of Black Life

We are outraged at the killing of George Floyd and mourn the loss of countless Black lives to police and vigilante violence. These murders come at a time of astounding and disproportional fatalities of thousands of Black, brown and Indigenous Peoples from the COVID-19 pandemic. These are but two manifestations of the lethal ways that white supremacy operates in our economic and criminal justice systems, maintaining institutions of violence and discrimination — and there are global links. 

Palestinian Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives 

We need the people in the streets struggling for their rights and humanity that Palestinians are standing strongly with them, we consider their struggles as ours.

Seeds of Resistance: Palestine Farmers Fight Against Annexation and Pandemic 

The violent Israeli encroachment and annexation of Palestinian land is putting the future of the West Bank and its residents in an extremely vulnerable position.

A Movement Poem: "the tools that those frogs spoke about by the fire"

A member of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance’s Youth Collective authored this powerful poem we’d like to share with you. 

Africa Says, "I Can't Breathe": An African Civil Society Perspective on Systemic Racism

The knee on George Floyd’s neck is the same knee that is on our neck. It is the same knee that justified colonialism in Africa. It is the same knee that sees Africa not for what it has, but for what it's lacking. 

MST Demands Agrarian Reform

Brazil is facing one of the deadliest and most mismanaged COVID-19 crises in the world. But the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) is demanding emergency reforms to end government inaction and to protect lives, land and communities.

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