March 2022 eNewsletter

Rob Wallace: Agroecology is Key for Stopping the Next COVID

Epidemiologist Rob Wallace speaks with Grassroots’s Chris Morrill. He argues that agroecology and food sovereignty, like our partner La Via Campesina promotes, are key for stopping the next pandemics.

VICTORY: Global Solidarity Beats Back Evictions in Brazil

An international campaign led by the Landless Workers Movement, Grassroots International and Friends of the MST extended the eviction moratorium in Brazil, protecting over 500,000 people.

Women Narrate Their Stories of Healing and Resistance

In honor of Women’s History Month, we are uplifting the work of the Martín-Baró Initiative (MBI) and the many ways that women are using their voices.

In Defense of Rivers, Water and Life

March 14 was the International Day of Struggle Against Dams, and For Rivers, Water and Life. Check out a video from our grantee the Movement of People Affected by Dams in Latin America (Movimiento de Afectados por Represas, MAR) as well as their statement for the day.

International Working Women’s Day: Against War, For the Planet, For a Different World

On March 8 we celebrated International Working Women’s Day. This day is rooted in global solidarity and in economic justice, as working-class and peasant women struggle against multiple systems of oppression.

Human Rights Funders Must Support Civil Society in Palestine

Alice Rothschild, a longtime donor, expresses her deep concern over a series of developments in Palestine that signal danger for the human rights sector globally.