Grassroots Global Justice

Mission

Grassroots Global Justice is an alliance of U.S.-based grassroots groups who are organizing to build an agenda for power for working and poor people. We understand that there are important connections between the local issues we work on and the global context, and we see ourselves as part of an international movement for global justice.

We believe that movement building is grounded in the development of grassroots organizations and leadership development to achieve local, national, and global justice.

We believe in building relationships of solidarity between and among organizations in the United States and across the world. We have much to learn from and share with our international allies.

We believe that as US based organizations, we must be committed to building a strong enough movement to prevent the US government and US corporations from suppressing popular movements and interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.

We believe in creating opportunities for convergence that facilitate resource sharing, popular and political education, skill sharing and dialogue between organizations.

We believe in joint action, that acting together in the U.S. and globally we have more power to create social change.

We believe by working together Another World is Possible - a world based on the principles of international solidarity, justice, peace, dignity, equality, human rights, sustainability and democracy!

Members

50 Years Is Enough Network (Washington, DC)
Afroecophilo - African American Ecological Philosophy Group
Appalachian Development Projects Coalition (Appalachia)*
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (Oakland, CA)
Black Mesa Water Coalition (Northeastern Arizona)*
Black Workers for Justice (North Carolina)
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities (New York City)
CAAELII (Chicago, IL)
Carleton Manor Community Service Program (New York City)
Coalition of Immokalee Workers (Immokalee, FL)
Comite de inmigrantes en Accion de Rhode Island
Community Coalition for Environmental Justice (Seattle, WA)
Community Voices Heard (New York City)
Cross Border Labor Organizing Committee (Portland, OR)
Domestic Workers United (New York City)*
Environmental Health Coalition (San Diego, CA)
Farm Labor Organizing Committee (Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina)
Fuerza Unida (San Antonio, TX)*
Georgia Citizens' Coalition on Hunger
Indigenous Environmental Network (National)*
Jobs with Justice (National)*
Just Transition Alliance
Kensington Welfare Rights Union (Philadelphia, PA)
Kentucky Jobs with Justice
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (Mass. chapter)
Labor/Community Strategy Center (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Alliance For A New Economy (Los Angeles)
Massachussetts Jobs with Justice (Mass.)
Miami Workers Center (Miami, FL)
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (National)*
New York City Aids Housing Network
People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources (PODER) (Austin, TX)
People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights (PODER) (San Francisco)*
Portland Jobs with Justice
Project South (Atlanta, GA)*
Project Voice AFSC (National)
Sage Council (New Mexico)
SCOPE (Los Angeles, CA)
Sistas on the Rise (New York City)
Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network (Southeastern US)
Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (Binational)
Southwest Organizing Project (Albequerque, NM)*
Southwest Workers' Union (San Antonio, TX)*
Tenants & Workers Support Committee (Northern Virginia)
Tennessee Economic Renewal Network
TIGRA (Oakland, CA)
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (National)*
United Students Against Sweatshops (National)*
USW Local 8-675 (Southern CA & Nevada)
Vermont Workers' Center

* denotes Coordinating Committee member