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Innovative Grassroots Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Distributing mutual aid to flood and cyclone affected communities. Photo courtesy of DIVA for Equality Across the world, as governments fall short on responses to the COVID pandemic and its connected…

June 09, 2020

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Won’t You Celebrate With Me?

By: Luam Kidane, Regional Director – Africa With an economic recession looming in the wake of COVID-19, mainstream news cycles are filled with headlines about the stock market, bailouts for corporations, and…

May 25, 2020

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Earth Day 2020. It’s past time we center Indigenous and grassroots leadership & wisdom.

As we face COVID-19 and catastrophic climate change, let us not only embrace interconnection, but a movement for a historic redirection of wealth to the grassroots.

April 21, 2020

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This is What Grassroots Brilliance Looks Like!

How Thousand Currents’ grassroots partners are responding to COVID-19

April 17, 2020

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What can funders consider when responding to COVID-19?

COVID-19 has upended the world as we know it. And while we are all susceptible to the virus, we know that the impact is not carried equally.

April 13, 2020

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#BlackLivesMatter – We Will Not Be Intimidated Into Silence

Over the past few weeks, Thousand Currents and other funders have been the targets of hateful disinformation campaigns and threats from far-right extremists, white nationalists and right-wing media. These attacks are aimed at discrediting the Black-led, multiracial mass movement of millions of people around the world who are speaking out against state-sanctioned violence, anti-Blackness, racism and white supremacy.

July 06, 2020

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A few words from Zapatista women during the closing ceremony of the First International, Political, Artistic, Athletic, and Cultural Gathering of Women Who Fight

June 24, 2020

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How to be a better ally to Indigenous Peoples

June 24, 2020

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In Solidarity. We raise our voices.

To the Black organizers around the country leading the charge for change in this moment, we are with you, and we take up the call for justice and liberation.  Statement available…

June 02, 2020

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What happens when the advised COVID-19 safety measures aren’t possible?

What we are learning from our grassroots partners in the Global South For years, our grassroots partners have been resisting, reforming and challenging the current system, while building, defending and transforming pathways…

April 07, 2020