Law in Contemporary Society

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Community Awareness and the Education Lawyer

It's About Power, Not Policy: Movement Lawyering for Large-Scale Social Change

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<		Alexi and Jim Freeman worked as legal advocates at Advancement Project with a particular focus on the Ending the Schoolhouse-to-Jailhouse Track project. There, they partnered with local grassroots-led community organizations to wage advocacy campaigns and build social movements to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. Ending the Schoolhouse-to-Jailhouse Track was successfully, but the Freemans share an interesting anecdote about how they made substantial progress toward their goals:
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>		Alexi and Jim Freeman worked as legal advocates at Advancement Project with a particular focus on the Ending the Schoolhouse-to-Jailhouse Track project. There, they partnered with local grassroots-led community organizations to wage advocacy campaigns and build social movements to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. Ending the Schoolhouse-to-Jailhouse Track was successful, but the Freemans share an interesting anecdote about how they made substantial progress toward their goals:
 We, like many aspiring progressive lawyers, left law school deeply passionate about addressing large systemic injustices…that continually produced the oppression, subordination, and disempowerment of low-income communities of color, in particular…[but] every advocacy strategy we had learned in law school was virtually worthless. Source.

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