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Throughout the world, solutions to some of the greatest challenges of the day are either nascent or fully thriving. Organized people's movements - sometimes with help from supportive government - are changing the structures which cause violence, poverty, inequality, and environmental destruction.

 

Throughout the world, solutions to some of the greatest challenges of the day are either nascent or fully thriving. Organized people's movements - sometimes with help from supportive government - are changing the structures which cause violence, poverty, inequality, and environmental destruction. At the same time, they are creating better quality of life in their communities.  In other instances, people are preserving ancient cultures where individuals live in relative equity and harmony with other life and their communities, and without expectation of profit. 

Join us to learn more and become a part of this inspiring movement:
  • Check out Other Worlds' newest book and food sovereignty tool, Harvesting Justice: Transforming Food, Land, and Agriculture in the Americas, which explores the growing movement to reclaim the food system from multinational agribusiness and put it back into the hands of people. Accompanying the book is a popular education curriculum called Sowing Seeds, and a weekly blog series! And, find more resources and action steps on the Harvesting Justice website.

  • More than three years after the devastating 2010 earthquake, read about how Haitian grassroots movements are continuing the struggle for a just reconstruction on our Another Haiti is Possible blog. And, find out how you can support the Under Tents campaign for the right to housing for nearly 400,000 who are still living under tarps and tents.

  • Visit our blog, below, of articles by and about our allies building grassroots alternatives around the world (click here for full blog history).

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Transition Towns Network

http://www.transitiontowns.org/

A network supporting communities as they organize to "support community‐led responses to peak oil and climate change, building resilience and happiness”.

  • Environmental Justice and Zero Waste

Rising Tide

http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org

Rising Tide is a grassroots network of groups and individuals who take direct action to confront the roots causes of climate change and promote local, community-based solutions to the climate crisis. Rising Tide was formed in the Netherlands in 2000 to bring a more radical voice to the COP6 (UN Conference of the Parties) climate talks that attempted (unsuccessfully, largely due to the efforts of the US delegation) to salvage what of substance was left of the Kyoto Protocol.

  • Environmental Justice and Zero Waste
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Survival International

http://www.survival-international.org

Survival is the only international organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide. They work for tribal peoples’ rights in three complementary ways: education, advocacy and campaigns. They also offer tribal people themselves a platform to address the world. They work closely with local indigenous organizations, and focus on tribal peoples who have the most to lose, usually those most recently in contact with the outside world.

  • Indigenous Autonomy and Resource Rights

Stamp Out Poverty

http://www.stampoutpoverty.org

Stamp Out Poverty campaigns for additional sources of finance to bridge the massive funding gap required to bring the world’s poorest people out of poverty.

  • Economic, Worker, and Racial Justice

Just Transition Alliance

http://www.jtalliance.org

The Just Transition Alliance was founded in 1997 as a coalition of environmental justice and labor organizations. Together with frontline workers, and community members who live along the fence-line of polluting industries, they create healthy workplaces and communities. They focus on contaminated sites that should be cleaned up, and on the transition to clean production and sustainable economies.

  • Environmental Justice and Zero Waste

War on Want

http://www.waronwant.org

War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership with people affected by globalisation. They campaign for human rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice.

  • Globalization and Trade Justice

International Trade Union Confederation

http://www.ituc-csi.org

The ITUC’s primary mission is the promotion and defence of workers’ rights and interests, through international cooperation between trade unions, global campaigning and advocacy within the major global institutions.

  • Economic, Worker, and Racial Justice

Jubilee Debt Campaign

http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk

Jubilee Debt Campaign is demanding an end to the scandal of poor countries paying money to the rich world. They call for 100% cancellation of unpayable and unfair poor country debts.

  • Globalization and Trade Justice

Friends of the Earth International

http://www.foei.org

FOE is the world's largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 77 national member groups and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent. FOE campaigns on today's most urgent environmental and social issues, challenging the current model of economic and corporate globalization, and promoting solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies.

  • Environmental Justice and Zero Waste

Trade Justice Movement

http://www.tjm.org.uk

The Trade Justice Movement is a group of organisations including trade unions, aid agencies, environment and human rights campaigns, fairtrade organisations, faith and consumer groups. They campaign together for trade justice - not free trade - with the rules weighted to benefit poor people and the environment.

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  • Defending the Global Commons
  • Claiming & Protecting Water
  • Guaranteed Access to Healthcare
  • Community Control of Knowledge
  • Women's Rights and Gender Justice
  • Gift Economies
  • Solidarity Economies
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