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July 2022 eNewsletter

Planting Seeds by Building Youth Leadership

“Grassroots International was the first organization I ever donated to — as a five-year-old. I bundled up my coins and mailed them to you all. I still get Grassroots International mail addressed to me and my father because of this early interaction.”

— Leah Penniman
Co-Executive Director and Farm Director at Soulfire Farm

For July, we are looking at the ways youth play central roles in communities and social struggles — both through their own independent organizations and in youth sections of broader movements.

 

Brazil’s Youth are Fighting for Their Lives

People’s Dispatch reports on an exciting gathering of over 1,000 young activists from Levante Popular da Juventude (Popular Youth Uprising, LPJ), one of our new partners in Brazil.

 

Mexico’s New Movement Institute for Indigenous and Peasant Youth

At the end of June, social movement representatives from across Mexico and other parts of the Americas gathered in Guelatao, Oaxaca to launch the Latin American Institute of Agroecology, Mexico, or IALA Mexico.

 

Why is Brazil a Flashpoint for Land Grabs?

Hedge funds — including university endowments and pension funds like TIAA — are buying up land in Brazil to turn a profit. But college students and rural activists are organizing in an international alliance to end the violent expulsions of local communities.

 

Resourcing the Next Generation of Movements

We have committed to walk alongside our partners for as long as it takes to see the work through. This is why we ask our donors to make long-term commitments to us — so that we can make long-term commitments to our partners.

At this moment — the greatest intergenerational wealth transfer in US history — we have decided to embark on a radical campaign: to inspire and facilitate the transfer of wealth from progressive elders to the young people on the frontlines of struggle, who are ushering in the future of global social movement organizing.

In celebration of our young movement organizers, will you visit our FreeWill page today, and make a bequest to Grassroots International, in recognition of the hope we have in young people, and as a gift to them for the future?

 

Grassroots International
179 Boylston Street, 4th Floor,  | Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts  02130
(617) 524-1400 | [email protected]

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