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.

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. 

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.

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.

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).