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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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Grantmakers Without Borders

http://www.internationaldonors.org

Grantmakers Without Borders, a philanthropic network, is dedicated to increasing funding for international social justice and environmental sustainability and to improving the practice of international grantmaking.

  • Funder Networks and Grantmaking Opportunities

SisterSong Women of Color Health Collective

http://www.sistersong.net

SisterSong is a network of local, regional and national grassroots agencies which educates women of color and policy-makers on reproductive and sexual health and rights.  The collective also works towards the access of health services, information and resources that are culturally and linguistically appropriate.

  • Guaranteed Access to Healthcare

Physicians for a National Health Program

http://www.pnhp.org

Physicians for a National Health Program is a single-issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program in the U.S. 
 

  • Guaranteed Access to Healthcare

Health Care for All

http://www.hcfa.org

HCFA seeks to create a consumer-centered health care system that provides comprehensive, affordable, accessible, culturally competent, high-quality care and consumer education for everyone, especially the most vulnerable.

  • Guaranteed Access to Healthcare

Community Acupuncture Network

http://www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org

Community Acupuncture Network is made up of practitioners, patients, and supporters whose goal is to make acupuncture affordable and accessible, in the spirit of health care for all.  They promote the practice of offering acupuncture in community settings on a sliding payment scale.  Check them out to find the 80 clinics around the U.S.  where treatments range from $15-40 a treatment; hopefully one is near you. 

  • Guaranteed Access to Healthcare

Pesticide Action Network

http://www.panna.org

Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) works to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.

  • Environmental Justice and Zero Waste

Green for All

http://www.greenforall.org

Green for All works to shift the national economy to clean energy, thus improving the health and well-being of low-income people and creating entrepreneurial, wealth-building opportunities for those who need new avenues of economic advance.

  • Environmental Justice and Zero Waste

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)

http://www.no-burn.org

GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 600 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 82 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration.  GAIA works both against incinerators and for safe, sustainable, and just alternatives. In the U.S., GAIA is a project of the Ecology Center (http://www.ecologycenter.org/).

  • Environmental Justice and Zero Waste

Indigenous Environmental Network

http://www.ienearth.org

The Indigenous Environmental Network is a network of indigenous peoples empowering indigenous nations and communities towards sustainable livelihoods, demanding environmental justice, and maintaining the sacred fire of their traditions.

  • Indigenous Autonomy and Resource Rights
  • Environmental Justice and Zero Waste

U.S. Solidarity Economy Network

http://www.populareconomics.org

The U.S.  Solidarity Economy Network works to connect a diverse array of individuals, organizations, businesses and projects in the shared work of building and strengthening regional, national and international movements for a solidarity economy.

  • Solidarity Economies
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  • Another Haiti is Possible
  • 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
  • Indigenous Territory & Resource Rights
  • Worker Ownership
  • Agrarian Reform
  • Environmental Protection & Zero Waste
  • Food Sovereignty
  • Transforming the Food Supply Chain

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