Dear Friend, Movement building is at the heart of what Grassroots International does. The solidarity we offer to frontline communities is rooted in a shared knowledge that justice comes from strong social movements, linked across borders. Thanks to you and Grassroots supporters like you, grassroots feminists across the world had an important space in 2021 for strengthening their knowledge and expanding their movements: the Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organizing School (IFOS). Starting last March, IFOS brought together women, trans and LGBTQ2S+ people from 38 territories and nations in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Middle East regions to share experiences and build knowledge. The 130+ organizers, attendees, and trainers — rooted in Indigenous, peasant, working-class and Black feminisms — all came away with shared frameworks, new strategies, and deep relationships that will be critical in the struggles to come. The online school borrows its name from the beloved Berta Cáceres, an Indigenous Lenca woman who dedicated her life to the defense of territory and promotion of feminisms in her native Honduras. But Berta never organized as an individual, and neither do we. The IFOS is a joint project of Grassroots International, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, World March of Women, and Indigenous Environmental Network, and it took all of us to pull together this incredibly important space for feminist organizers — especially amid the pandemic. And I’m grateful for the important role your support served in that collaboration. Political education fostered through spaces like IFOS matters. Political education gave our Puerto Rican partner La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción the tools to win a state of emergency declaration against femicides early this year. It gives the Landless Workers Movement the knowledge to center gender liberation in all their peasant organizing in Brazil. It gives feminist movements everywhere a broader perspective to see how all of our struggles are connected. As you know, the conditions of women, trans, and gender nonconforming people around the world are in a dire state. We depend on building strong movements, both where we live and where we don’t, to resist attacks on our rights and to work towards a feminist future. In the coming year, we hope to continue creating more spaces like the IFOS and sharing its lessons with more grassroots feminists the world over. Your ongoing support heading into 2022 can make a major impact in these struggles for justice and transformation. Please consider a donation today! | 
