Dear Friend,

The three-headed beast of domination — patriarchy, racism, and greed — is so entrenched in our societies that resistance demands system-wide change.

And your solidarity is critical in dismantling the widespread structures that systematically oppress women. Your support of grassroots feminisms (each based on local conditions) is smashing the patriarchy and creating new alternatives based on justice, equity, and empowerment. How?

Your gifts enable Grassroots International to identify, support, and collaborate with community-based, grassroots feminisms. Our work with pioneering networks — including the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ), and World March of Women (WMW) — brings your support to the frontline of feminist movements in the world.

Our goal in partnering with these grassroots groups is to develop strategies and train feminist activists to make fundamental social and economic change benefiting us all. And your pivotal gift to the 2021 Annual Fund Drive will build lasting power for women.

Together with our partners and you — we are bringing a grassroots feminist focus to a wide range of effective movement-building actions like:

• Political education and training, leadership development, and the training of trainers.
• On-the-ground organizing, campaign work, and coalition building.
• Bringing together women activists from around the world to share solutions, create strategies, and build solidarity.

Your gift also supports grassroots organizing efforts on the ground in places like Haiti and Puerto Rico. You help advance grassroots feminisms to resist and crush the overlapping forces of oppression subjugating women — based on race, class, sexuality, gender, and foreign intrusions to exploit people and the earth.

But I must stress to you that, on top of a disastrous pandemic, we also face a global upsurge of brutal, reactionary governments. These authoritarian leaders — serving only themselves and their friends — are on a rampage of torturing, jailing, murdering, impoverishing, and crushing the spirits of their own people, especially women and gender non-binary people. This is an immediate, additional, and reactionary threat to women’s and gender non-binary people’s lives 

That’s why your solidarity gift is crucial. Together, we can strike at the heart of the three-headed beast of male dominance, racism, and endless greed. Gifts to our Annual Fund support movements and grassroots feminisms leading our struggle to a just and equitable society.

I urge you to give now! With each shackle of patriarchy we break together, you’re helping to free humanity from all forms of oppression. Please be as generous as you possibly can.

In solidarity, Chung-Wha Hong Executive Director

P.S. Grassroots feminisms are leading the way. Each advance against patriarchal systems brings us closer to a just world. Your Annual Fund gift is vital, providing social movements powerful, systemic tools of resistance. I’m asking you to give to our Annual Fund now! Thank you.