Real World Radio (RWR) is a grassroots communications project of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), created in 2003 and at the service of social movements around the world. This project is based in REDES / Friends of the Earth Uruguay offices in Montevideo.

At RWR, we produce information in Spanish and English with an environmental justice approach. We focus on the struggles of peasant movements, Indigenous Peoples, grassroots, feminist and environmental organisations, unions and fisherfolk in defence of the territories and peoples' collective rights.

Our agenda covers Friends of the Earth International's key areas of work. We follow the agendas of social movements and organisations across all regions as they resist corporate violations and human rights violations.

We expose the consequences of the industrial agricultural model: land grabbing, attacks against local communities and the effects of GMOs and agrotoxins. We also denounce the processes of deforestation, biodiversity loss, and the privatisation, commodification and financialisation of nature.

We warn about the severity of the climate crisis and False Solutions promoted by the private sector and governments in the Global North. Moreover, we highlight the need for a radical transformation of the current energy system based on fossil fuel extractivism that generates environmental destruction and devastates local communities.

We join the people in denouncing the patriarchal capitalist system that uses gender injustice to reproduce itself. We denounce the advance of capital on the territories that has dramatically increased the number of persecutions and murders of environmental and peoples’ rights defenders.

Our journalistic work promotes peoples' solutions: a UN Binding Treaty that forces transnational corporations to respect human rights; solidarity and a feminist economy; peasant and Indigenous production of food, agroecology and food sovereignty; energy sovereignty; and Community forest management, to name a few.

Our work towards these goals takes us to a multitude of spaces. We travel to the territories themselves and join local struggles, attending peoples' summits, occupying international and national spaces where discussions on these topics are debated and held, and reaching multilateral events where international negotiations occur, such as the United Nations.

Our goal is to place the voices of popular organisations and social movements at the centre. Most of the time, our reports, interviews and event coverage are produced together with social actors, through shared and bottom-up communications work. We take the same approach in the communications convergences we participate in and share with La Vía Campesina and the World March of Women, among other actors.

Our website offers not just written articles and radio interviews, but also audiovisual materials, photo galleries and graphic communications.

On Real World Radio, voices are action.

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