Here in the United States, we wake up to a crueler, more divided nation every morning. From staggering tariffs to mass deportations to the erasure of hard-fought progress of LGBTQI+ people — things are changing at an alarming rate. But something is becoming increasingly clear — a lesson we can learn from our grantees around the world: Our resistance must be born from solidarity.
Travel with us to Bo Kaew village in northeastern Thailand to see solidarity in action. Late last year, AJWS grantee Isaan Land Reform Network (ILRN) gathered farmers from across the region who are all locked in legal battles with the government after being unjustly evicted from their ancestral land. Though these villagers face immense challenges, they came together to share strength, courage, and hope. And they know that the only way forward is together.
It’s a message we all need to hear right now. Below, get transported to rural Thailand — and let our partners offer you some hope, too.
Suffer Together, Celebrate Together: How Farmers Fight for Survival in Thailand
More Stories of Hope
- Hear from longtime AJWS partner and trailblazing LGBTQI+ activist Essy Adhiambo about the massive challenges Kenya is facing due to the Trump administration’s destruction of foreign aid — and how her community and their allies will transcend this difficult era in solidarity, by drawing on their shared humanity.
- “Ten years ago, our sisters were getting murdered here. But today, people have embraced us.” That’s Antony Montesino, a queer Salvadoran talking about the “total change” in La Unión, El Salvador — a change sparked by the solidarity movement of AJWS grantee Estrellas del Golfo. Meet these brave people who transformed their town.
- On March 31, the AJWS community hit Washington, D.C., to urge Congress to join our movement for human rights. Together with AJWS staff and board members, Jewish leaders from AJWS’s Global Justice Fellowship met with elected leaders, including Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff, to advocate for U.S. foreign policies that strengthen our grantee partners’ work.
Let’s be clear — when we talk about “solidarity,” that means you, too!
Join us by taking action right now. We’ve made it simple: Click here to write to your state’s members of Congress and demand that they immediately restore foreign assistance funding. The Trump administration abruptly and callously halted this critical funding earlier this year — a move that has already cost lives, rolled back progress on human rights and empowered authoritarian leaders around the world.
We must keep resisting. And we must do it together.
In solidarity,
Your friends at AJWS