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Posted on October 26, 2018
What's the point if your clients can't understand your advice?
As you probably know by now, our Executive Director Janelle Orsi, loves drawing cartoons. For our Fellows Week, Janelle drew this to inspire lawyers to be better communicators.
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Posted on October 25, 2018
October is Filipino American History Month, Cooperative Month, and Domestic Violence Awareness Month! This is Tia here, writing my first blog post for the Law Center! And you know I'm writing about Filipino American History Month for my Fil/Am fam. So here goes. Did you know that the Philippines has a...
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Posted on September 27, 2018
Reflections on the 2018 Worker Cooperative National Conference By Ricardo Samir Nuñez, Director of Economic Democracy This September we hit a milestone: the ten year anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis that crippled the global economy. Institutions of international capital crumbled while the housing market collapsed. We had...
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Posted on August 31, 2018
As the popularity of urban agriculture and community gardens rises around the US, the need to acknowledge, define, and allow them in city ordinances has become apparent. Many other cities in California have passed very permissible urban agriculture ordinances within the last decade, however, people are often surprised to learn...
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Posted on August 29, 2018
Own Our Food Coalition Stands for Community Ownership and Control of the Food System, Warns of Imminent Uberization of Food OAKLAND, CA (August 29, 2018) Yesterday the California Senate passed AB 626, a bill designed to uberize California’s homemade food sector. The bill has been backed by gig economy tech...
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