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Posted on September 26, 2023
Imagine Indigenous and Black people free
to love and live with liberated Land.
Imagine the unique gifts the Land and her people have
to offer future generations.
This is happening now—a groundswell, a watershed moment.
This is happening here—in Northern California
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Posted on September 11, 2023
By Tia Katrina Taruc-Myers, Nonprofit Quarterly Excerpt: The Sustainable Economies Law Center is a nonprofit organization democratically run by staff co-stewards who are caring, trusting, and radical. Still, the proposal for a 40-week paid parental leave policy proposal was controversial. Along with my two co-workers, I helped draft an organizational policy proposal...
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Posted on August 21, 2023
This is an embarrassing situation, to say the least: We have a narrow window of time in which to take action and avert massive extinctions, sea level rise, and other climate disasters. We’re also watching the rapid spread of global poverty, inequality, and community displacement. Meanwhile, U.S. philanthropic foundations sit...
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Posted on July 27, 2023
In California, apprenticing in a law office or alongside a practicing attorney is a little-known pathway to becoming a lawyer. Becoming a lawyer without going to law school means you can sidestep the debt, and trauma-inducing, white dominant culture of law school, and are able to create the learning environment...
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Posted on July 24, 2023
In the early days of the Law Center, co-founder and staff attorney Janelle Orsi had a vision of bringing together 1 million lawyers in the name of economic democracy. This vision motivated Law Center staff to build a community of cooperative legal workers, which would come to be known as...
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