Solidarity 2020 and beyond

Overview

SOLIDARITY 2020 and Beyond is a “movement of movements” that acts as the roots and sustenance for many different limbs of a strong and broad tree covering the globe. S2020B is led by the grassroots movement leaders themselves, who make up the Global Grassroots Activist Network, GGAN. The GGAN is currently 175+ members strong, comprised of grassroots leaders from around the world utilizing strategic and nonviolent action methods for progressive change in the struggles for environmental justice and against climate change, land and indigenous rights, women’s rights and gender justice, self-determination, racial justice and minority rights, freedom of religion, democratization, and anti-corruption in Southeast and South Asia, North America, Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Europe.

SOLIDARITY 2020 and Beyond is an umbrella movement made up of grassroots-led movements. Their five pillars of work determined by GGAN members include: 1) enhancing strategic nonviolent resistance training; 2) convening, networking, sharing and amplifying the voices and knowledge of grassroots leaders and relevant locally-led research; 3) psychosocial support, self-care, and trauma healing through sharing best practices and curriculum/services across and within movements; 4) participatory research led by communities in partnership with scholar activists; and 5) provision of general resources to create an enabling environment for activists, organizers, peacebuilders, and human rights defenders in our network such as small and emergency grants, and connections to  experts and policy makers and platforms regionally and internationally to build and enhance people power.