The Youth Organizing Institute is now a member of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance. Monserrat Alvarez traveled to Detroit, MI as a representative of YOI and met with over 100 organizers throughout the nation. The location of the assembly was chosen by GGJ as a means to further discuss the framework of “No War, No Warming”. Detroit has been facing environmental and economic issues that by no surprise are mostly affecting communities of color. Innovative community organizing and new economy projects have emerged in Detroit are inspiring. They have been rooted in indigenous and communities of color’s struggle to reclaim their land and history. Along with YOI, the NC contingent also included member of Black Workers for Justice. At the national meeting we had valuable discussion around environmental, economic, and gender justice in the rural South.
