Grassroots Action
Flourish Coalition’s focus on grassroots action involves promoting and supporting on-the-ground community-led initiatives in service of food justice and food system transformation and care, justice, and liberation for people, fellow animals, and our shared ecosystem more broadly. We connect people to opportunities for engaging in multiracial community and cultural organizing, mutual aid, solidarity, and volunteering.
We are grounded in an ethos of multi-species care and community and a systems framework that recognizes social injustices as interrelated and seeks to address root causes. We, therefore, recognize cross-movement solidarity and coalition building through collaborative grassroots action as central to transforming the shared roots of injustice. Our vision, values, and practices orient toward prioritizing, centering, and promoting community-led initiatives and taking action to counter systems of oppression that harm and disenfranchise those most impacted by societal injustice.
In particular, we partner with farm and food worker justice organizations, community-led food organizations, and farmed animal sanctuaries to promote justice for farmers and food and farm workers, food security for our communities, care and liberation for fellow animals, and respect and regenerative practices for our planet.
One of our main grassroots action initiatives is our STAR (Sanctuary Transport & Animal Refuge) Network, which is a national network providing transport and refuge support to help animals arrive safely to sanctuary.
