Thank you for attending the Movement Lawyering Conference co-hosted by Advancement Project, Law for Black Lives and the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University Law School. We hope you got some new ideas for your work and met new people with whom you can collaborate.
Hopefully, you walked away with a better understanding of movement lawyering. At Advancement Project National Office, we are movement lawyers building power through long-term campaigns will result in the end of structural racism. We support grassroots groups organizing people of color in order to win our freedom. We know that winning requires us to be bold and creative. We hope those of you who are looking for opportunities to challenge the status quo, will consider joining us at Advancement Project. We are looking for a few movement lawyers.
There is a growing field of lawyers who understand and practice in this way, including the 4,000 lawyers who make up the Law for Black Lives network. Movement lawyers are pushing the envelope challenging racism aggressively and creatively doing what was once considered impossible, like ending cash bail and challenging the existence of prisons. While they understand the importance of litigation, movement lawyers also understand its shortcomings and therefore use all the tools possible to win.
This is about power, who has it and who wields it. Movement lawyering is bolstering the genius of ordinary people to disrupt systemic inequity and wrest power from those who wield it in service to some, returning it to the community to make better decisions for the whole. We live and work at the intersection of dream and do. We stand on the shoulders of those who knew separate was not equal and that power concedes nothing without a demand. Despite the setbacks, movement lawyers will continue to show up for and fight alongside communities that dream of a better tomorrow.
And we will win.
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