Solidarity 2020 and Beyond
Global GRASSROOTS ACTIVISTS MOVEMENT Solidarity INITIATIVE
We are an international network that provides support and solidarity for grassroots activists around the world utilizing strategic nonviolent action to build campaigns and movements for change.
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Amidst capitalist crises, social movements are telling new stories about what it means to be human, revealing our collective power to refuse and create.
By: Max Haiven
After being called conspirators against the government, human rights (HR) organizations need to “take back the political narrative” and step up their communication strategies to win the so-called information warfare, according to a new study highlighting the movement’s struggle to better connect with the public….
by Krixia Subingsubing
France still uses monetary colonialism to exploit 15 African nations. Could Bitcoin be a way out?
by Alex Gladstein
The military’s brutal attack on peaceful protesters has understandably sparked calls for armed insurgency. But such a move could set the movement back.
Maria J. Stephan March 24, 2021
Nonviolent movements must go beyond marching in the streets in order to build truly transformative change for a post-pandemic future.
Stellan Vinthagen, April 12, 2021
It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain.
by Arundhati Roy
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Our Work
We are always looking for the best ways to support and bring solidarity to our Global Grassroots Activists. Many initiatives we take part in are the result of needs in the field and we continue to grow as needs arise amongst our fellow organizers.
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Our Voices
“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next... We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.”
(Coming Soon!) Voices of Solidarity: a grassroots people power blog
Listen, learn and get motivated by current blogs discussing the latest strategies and tactics, trends, and new challenges and solutions organizing in a time of COVID-19 and beyond.