Frontlines grassroots groups respond to bipartisan infrastructure bill vote delay: Congress must pass a full budget that does no harm and invests in real solutions

As Congress delayed a vote last night on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, blowing past an artificial deadline set by Democratic leaders, grassroots organizations urge members of Congress to continue to deliver on climate solutions, care investments, and justice and to hold the line against dirty energy investments that harm communities in the full budget reconciliation package.…

One Struggle, Many Fronts – International Solidarity Against State Violence

While we are devastated by recent international events of state violence from Colombia to Palestine, we are resolute in our work to act in solidarity with oppressed peoples. This past Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people across the world showed up in solidarity with the people of Palestine and their resistance against the violence of settler-colonialism, including land theft and home…

Introducing the THRIVE Act

  Our communities are currently facing an intersection of crises. Over the last year, millions of people have lost their jobs and healthcare in the middle of a deadly pandemic. Climate disasters like the recent winter storm in the South are becoming more and more frequent. However, right now we have a rare chance to rebuild and renew our economy and fight for a recovery package that…

Fighting Global Austerity to THRIVing: Women workers resisting and winning

ITR, GGJ, along with other movements around the world, commemorates the anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh where the 2013 collapse of a garment factory building killed 1,134 people, mostly women workers. This year, we want to both memorialize this tragedy and celebrate the organizing of women who are fighting austerity measures and working to expand economic rights during the…

We Call on Biden to Demonstrate Real Climate Leadership, Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground, Stop Supporting False Solutions

Today, as President Joe Biden convenes world leaders at a climate summit, the It Takes Roots Alliance calls for leadership and concrete commitments from the United States at the national and global levels, not just symbolic gestures. Biden must demonstrate real commitment to climate leadership by first stopping fossil fuel extraction in the U.S. and taking drastic action to keep global warming…

Grassroots, Environmental Justice Communities Call on Biden to Go Bigger, Bolder and Faster for a Climate, Care and Infrastructure Recovery Package

It Takes Roots, a multiracial, multicultural, multigenerational alliance comprised of the Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Right To The City Alliance, appreciates the beginning steps announced by the Biden Administration today as he unveiled details of an infrastructure package to help the country recover- and we implore him to go…

Feminist Economy for People and Planet

haga clic aquí para español   In a feminist economy we recognize, value, and center reproductive labor as low carbon, community generating, life affirming, and skilled work that is necessary for the well being of everyone and to sustain human society and nature itself. On February 23rd we held a teach-in on a Feminist Economy for People and the Planet, hosted by Grassroots Global…

2021 National Campaigns

A look at what is happening at a national level with It Takes Roots to hold the Biden administration accountable to the grassroots. The following are key campaigns and movement formations we are prioritizing to hold the Biden Administration accountable to the frontlines.Download flyerIt Takes Roots to Win People's SolutionsRight to the City AllianceHousing is the CureLearn MoreIndigenous…

Listen to the grassroots / Escuchar a las bases

(español abajo)   It Takes Roots to Win People’s Solutions. The work has just begun to hold a Biden presidency accountable to advancing the climate, racial, gender, and housing justice solutions that the frontlines have been pushing for years. We are ready to lead. Check out this video of It Takes Roots members on solutions from the frontlines   We have the solutions…

We Will Win People’s Solutions

Already from the first day the Biden administration is delivering on key demands from our movements, but we know continued bold action is needed to get anywhere near the transformative solutions our communities need to survive and thrive. The work has just begun to hold a Biden presidency accountable to advancing the climate, racial, gender, and housing justice solutions that the frontlines have…

Press coverage

Recent Press Coverage Democracy Now: Biden Be Bold: AOC & Cori Bush Join Climate Protest Outside DNC Urging Activists to “Bring the Heat” HighlightsWaging Nonviolence - How military veterans are answering the call to defend Black lives - Oct 2020 Common Dreams - 500+ Groups Demand 'People's Bailout' to Counter Push for Wall Street-Friendly Coronavirus Response - March 2020 InsideClimate…

Green New Deal

Green New Deal Toward a Just Transition to a Regenerative Economy We're fighting for a Green New Deal as a mid-term vehicle toward our long term goal of a just transition away from an extractive economy, to be replaced by a regenerative economy built on principles of care, feminism, Indigenous sovereignty, and justice for communities on the frontlines of climate change.Key ResourcesPeoples…
At COP26: Frontline Communities & Workers Delegation Demanded Real Climate Solutions, ‘No Net Zero’ and an End to Fossil-FuelsLearn moreRooted in wisdom of communities on the front lines of the climate and housing crises, place-based solutions, translocal organizing and deep democracy  Toward regenerative economies and healthy communities driven by the inherent rights of Nature—Mother…

Frontline leaders occupy the DNC for climate justice

The people decided and we are ready to lead. Recently, frontline organizations led by Black, Indigenous and brown communities from across Turtle Island occupied the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in Washington for 24 hours to demand that President-Elect Biden and his administration follow through on a bold agenda to address the climate crisis and racial justice. Watch the video…

The people have decided and won

Haga clic para el español Today, we celebrate the defeat of Trump at the hands of our communities. A record number of Black, Indigenous, people of color, and frontline communities took to the polls in the face of a global pandemic and explicit threats from white supremacists to win this election. For the people whose right to vote is suppressed because of immigration status or due to former or…

Together we weather the storm / Juntos le hacemos frente a la tormenta

This week we are casting our ballots and showing up to defend the election. We do it not for candidates but for our communities and a deeply democractic future. A number of local races will have an immediate and direct impact to fight climate change, advance housing justice, and build a care economy rooted in values of grassroots feminism and Indigenous sovereignty. Still we know we can’t rely on…

Primer on Indigenous Sovereignty

Today is Indigenous People's Day in the U.S. There is no climate justice without Indigenous sovereignty. There is no housing justice when Native people are dispossessed from their lands. The struggle of Native Nations to survive, thrive, and have self-determination is core to our work to visualize a better future. All of us must redirect our minds away from the capitalistic systems that harm our…

Join us on the Freedom Side

We stand with you on the edge of a new world. The political conditions that we currently live under have created the opportunity for both political upheavals but also resistance and resilience. Hurricanes and wildfires have ravaged our country at the height of the pandemic. COVID continues to harm our communities, as we struggle with joblessness, eviction or foreclosure, losing loved ones, and…