June 2021 e-Newsletter
IN THIS ISSUE:
* Defending Water
* Encampment in Honduras
* "Water is Life" Film
* Water and Women's Lives
* Solidarity with Berta
As we center this month's eNewsletter on water for World Oceans Day, we are featuring movement art from Ashley Lukashevsky [ [link removed] ].
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Defending the World's Oceans, Water, and People
Water is a fundamental component of countless struggles across the world - struggles over territory, human rights, identity, culture and more. And it is equally fundamental to the solutions communities are building as they work together to confront multiple crises. For June we focused on the theme of water for its importance to our movements.
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As Key Suspect Tried, Encampment Demands Justice for Berta Cáceres
Today, a key perpetrator of the murder of Berta Cáceres, who led the struggle against the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam in Honduras, sits on trial. But the corruption goes much deeper than one person. So movements have encamped outside the Supreme Court.
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Streaming Resistance: "L'Eau Est La Vie (Water is Life)"
In his film "L'Eau Est La Vie (Water is Life)," Grassroots International board member Sam Vinal pieces together firsthand accounts from L'Eau Est La Vie camp organizers as they resist the Bayou Bridge Pipeline.
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Fighting for Water and Women's Lives in Nigeria
Kebetkache, an eco-feminist movement in Nigeria and Grassroots International grantee, has long waged a struggle to defend water and the communities that depend on it.
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Stand with Berta and Honduran Social Movements
Five years ago, Indigenous feminist Berta Cáceres from our partner COPINH was murdered for defending Lenca territory against the Agua Zarca dam project.
COPINH, our partner OFRANEH, and Honduran feminists are calling for global solidarity as they encamp in front of the Supreme Court of Justice. They are asking us to send emails to Honduran state officials to heed these movements' demands. Learn more and take action via the Honduras Solidarity Network (of which Grassroots is a member).
[ afgj.salsalabs.org/bertasigue2021/index.html ]
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