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Decolonization and the Law

Decolonization and the Law

By Mohit Mookim, Alejandra Cruz, and Tia Taruc-Myers In 2024, the Law Center emerged with a new and expanded team of land justice legal workers. As four new staff attorneys were onboarded in mid-2023 — all of whom are passionate about land return work — our team created space to collectively... Continue Reading

PHOTO ESSAY - How We Celebrate Our Land and Housing Justice Community

PHOTO ESSAY - How We Celebrate Our Land and Housing Justice Community

On Sunday August 25th, 2024, the Law Center invited our closest Land and Housing Justice clients, collaborators, partners, and friends to join us for an afternoon of art making at the 510 Firehouse, located in Oakland’s Chinatown. When we were deciding what to screen print, Law Center Staff Attorney Veryl... Continue Reading

August 2024 Newsletter: Executive Order N-1-24 is cruel and unconscionable

August 2024 Newsletter: Executive Order N-1-24 is cruel and unconscionable

Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-1-24, which directs California state agencies and departments to begin clearing unhoused people living on state property. The order comes at a time when similar policies are rising across the country, despite evidence that these approaches do not work to end... Continue Reading

Law Center Statement to Mayor Thao: Stop the Sweeps in Oakland

Law Center Statement to Mayor Thao: Stop the Sweeps in Oakland

We, at the Sustainable Economies Law Center, condemn Sheng Thao’s recent enthusiastic response to Governor Newsom’s cruel and unconscionable Executive Order N-1-24, from July 25, 2024, justifying the escalated and aggressive sweep of our unhoused Oakland neighbors in the wake of the City of Grants Pass v. Johnson decision by... Continue Reading

Poor Magazine Expanded My Thinking: What is Work? Who is a “Worker”?

Poor Magazine Expanded My Thinking: What is Work? Who is a “Worker”?

On May 23, the Law Center held a labor-focused community appreciation event at Kinfolx Cafe in Occupied Huchiun (aka Downtown Oakland) where we invited some of our collaborators to come enjoy each others’ company for an evening. Our guests of honor that night were poverty scholar teachers from Poor Magazine,... Continue Reading

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