It Takes Roots to Grow the Resistance Translocal Toolkit

Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ), Climate Justice Alliance (CJA Our Power Campaign), Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), and Right To The City Alliance (RTTC) are teaming up for the It Takes Roots to Grow the Resistance Delegation and Translocal Actions in the first 100 days of the Trump administration. Check out this toolkit for information on how to participate translocally and…

Women of Color Lead: A Call to Grow the Resistance against Trump, to Converge in Washington D.C. Jan 18-21

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 17, 2017 CONTACT: Isobel White, 510-828-3554 Bernice Shaw, 310-880-1389 Women of Color Lead: A Call to Grow the Resistance against Trump, to Converge in Washington D.C. Jan 18-21 Interviews available upon request with women of color, undocumented & immigrant women, Spanish speakers, Indigenous Peoples, youth and renters Washington D.C. | January 18, 2017 --…

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FOR PRESS INQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT AIMEE @ ITTAKESROOTS.ORG Cindy Wiesner National Coordinator, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) Cindy Wiesner is the National Coordinator of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Alliance (GGJ) and Co-Chair of the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) and the Our Power Campaign.  She has been active in the grassroots social justice movement for over 25 years.…

#ItTakesRoots Women Of Color & Allies Contingent at the Women’s March on Washington

March in a powerful and fierce delegation led-by women of color and gender non-conforming leaders of frontline movements for gender, racial, indigenous, climate, water, housing and workers rights for the historic Women’s March on Washington.  We'll gather together, build our energy and march to meet up with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets http://tabsmall.com/cialis-otc/. Our…

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Who We Are ITR is a multiracial, multicultural, intergenerational alliance of alliances representing over 200 organizations and affiliates in over 50 states, provinces, territories and Native lands on Turtle Island; and is led by women, gender non-conforming people, people of color, Black and Indigenous Peoples. It is an outcome of years of organizing and relationship building across the…

5 Things you can do to Stand with Standing Rock

State violence is escalating against the Indigenous Water Protectors on the frontlines of the struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline.  Join us in responding to the call for national and international solidarity: GO TO STANDING ROCK and stand with the water defenders on the frontlines. Make sure you have: Your own transportation to camp, shelter/lodging, food, at least bring food for…

Storms, Roots, And Seeds: Beyond COP21!

“What other than injustice could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?” -- Wynton Marsalis, Jazz musician The storm hurtled across the land, bringing the sea and everything with it. Trees snapped, houses washed away, vehicles became projectiles into second story windows, coconuts became cannon balls smashing bone and…

Cindy Wiesner on Telesur News: “Our global leaders have failed us”

“I think for us, Grassroots Global Justice, Indigenous Environmental Network, and the Climate Justice Alliance as grassroots and impacted communities in the United States and Canada, I think our global leaders have failed us, and I think that's what is clear is that they did not do an ambitious enough negotiation to really save the planet..." noted It Takes Roots delegate and national…

New Internationalist: Why We Should Feel Positive About Paris

In their wrap up analyses of COP21, the New Internationalist shines a light on why despite the dismal failure of the #COP21 agreement, there maybe hope - thanks to a massive people-led mobilization for climate justice that refuses to back off - including It Takes Roots delegation. They write: "Indigenous representatives from the incredible It Takes Roots grassroots delegation opened the Paris…

CALL TO ACTION: The COP21 Paris Accord Failed Humanity

The COP21 Paris Accord failed humanity, and impacted communities must take things into our own hands and push at all levels of government As impacted communities, we are deeply aware of the imperative of the climate crisis.  Our waters are being poisoned from fossil fuel extraction, our livelihoods are threatened by floods and drought, our communities are the hardest hit and the least protected…

It Takes Roots: Community-Led Solutions to Global Climate Change

Global Sisters Report writes of It Takes Roots as "an example of the growing "intersectional" movement uniting grass-roots organizations across peace, social justice, civil/human rights, gender, indigenous, and environmental issues. Its focus is on community-based and community-led solutions to addressing climate change you could try this out.  Read the full article

Dec 10 Action Highlight In TruthOut: Combating the Climate Counterrevolution in Paris

TruthOut Highlighted It Takes Roots Delegation's December 10 Human Rights Day Action at the Peace Wall, and spoke to Jihan Gearon, one of our delegates: "...here have also been strongly led by people of color working to center environmental justice issues and calling out environmental racism, especially Indigenous peoples protesting the omission of Indigenous rights from the accord. A lot of the…

On Human Rights Day, US Impacted Communities Denounce US Leaders

Media Advisory December 10, 2015 Grassroots Groups Say Climate Policies Violate Human Rights & the Rights of Indigenous People (Paris, FRANCE) Grassroots leaders from climate-impacted communities in the US rallied at the Paris Peace Wall to denounce the role of the US delegation for a legacy of environmental racism and in undermining the possibility for genuine climate justice coming out of…

TruthDig Highlights Dec 10 Action: On Human Rights Day, African Women Call for Climate Justice

Outside the confines of the conference being held in Le Bourget, a Paris suburb, hundreds of activists gathered next to the Peace Wall at the Eiffel Tower to mark International Human Rights Day and draw clear links between human rights and climate justice. The gathering, organized by the It Takes Roots Delegation, consisted of people from indigenous and other communities of color from all over…

Dec 9 Migrant Justice Action Update: Over 200 Activists March In Solidarity

On Wednesday, December 9, nearly 200 grassroots activists converged and marched, chanted, and sang with colorful banners, posters and outside the Vincennes detention center in Paris where several immigrants are illegally detained by the French government. The Vincennes detention center where grassroots communities  gathered is of particular significance, as it was the site of an historic…

It Takes Roots Delegate Member Brandon King: We Must Build Our Power

Within the high-stress, low-waste frenzy of the 21st Conference of Parties, or COP21, there are around 100 organizers from the frontlines of the climate crisis and energy extraction in North America. Drawn from the Navajo Nation, the Appalachian Mountains, Harlem and elsewhere, the It Takes Roots delegation is a joint venture of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental…

On Dec 10 Human Rights Day, US Impacted Communities Protest at Paris Peace Wall

COP21 Agreement is a Crime Against Humanity and Nature On Dec 10, International Human Rights Day, a broad coalition of impacted communities will gather for a street theater protest at the Peace Wall in Paris calling on the US delegation to reject false solutions that are the basis of the COP21 agreement. Representatives from Indigenous, Black, Latino, Asian and Pacific Islander organizations have…

Frontline Solidarity with Refugees and Migrant Communities in Paris

Indigenous, Migrant, and Black Communities from the US and Canada Unite with Refugees and Migrant Communities in Paris When: Wednesday December 9, 2015 at 10am Where: Hippodrome de Vincennes, 2 route de la Ferme, 75012 Paris Télécharger le communiqué de presse en français On Wednesday, December 9th grassroots organizations from the Americas will join with migrant rights groups and refugee…

Governor Jerry Brown Action – From Paris to California

On the evening of Tuesday, December 8th, members of the It Takes Roots delegation called out Governor Jerry Brown of California on his support of false solutions. The group attended a celebration of the Governor's Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF) to protest REDD. REDD allows polluters to continue to pollute and encourages displacement of Indigenous Peoples. Delegates interrupted the event…