Movement Law Lab
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Bringing the power of lawyers to social movements.
The US and El Salvador entered into an unprecedented agreement to transfer individuals across borders into the notoriously brutal CECOT prison in blatant violation of international human rights obligations. The recent details reveal even more egregious details.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The US and El Salvador entered into an unprecedented agreement to transfer individuals across borders into the notoriously brutal CECOT prison in blatant violation of international human rights obligations. The recent details reveal even more egregious details.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
The Black Voters Matter Project and many other groups are spearheading the #WeAintBuyingIt campaign” starting Black Friday to boycott some of the companies capitulating with authoritarianism. This is what economic defiance can look like.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Black Voters Matter Project and many other groups are spearheading the #WeAintBuyingIt campaign” starting Black Friday to boycott some of the companies capitulating with authoritarianism. This is what economic defiance can look like.
www.usatoday.com/videos/news/...
www.usatoday.com/videos/news/...
Chicago, Portland, DC, Memphis, LA, Bay Area: communities are organizing resistance to National Guard deployments.
Get our National Guard resource and community primer. More deployments expected. NOW is the time to connect with local orgs.
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Get our National Guard resource and community primer. More deployments expected. NOW is the time to connect with local orgs.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Chicago, Portland, DC, Memphis, LA, Bay Area: communities are organizing resistance to National Guard deployments.
Get our National Guard resource and community primer. More deployments expected. NOW is the time to connect with local orgs.
static1.squarespace.com/static/6421f...
Get our National Guard resource and community primer. More deployments expected. NOW is the time to connect with local orgs.
static1.squarespace.com/static/6421f...
1/ The U.S. has withdrawn from the UN’s Universal Periodic Review. The US is now on course to be the first country to not deliver a report to the UPR and will become the first nation to refuse to submit a report on their human rights record. What this means:
September 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
1/ The U.S. has withdrawn from the UN’s Universal Periodic Review. The US is now on course to be the first country to not deliver a report to the UPR and will become the first nation to refuse to submit a report on their human rights record. What this means:
1/ The U.S. has withdrawn from the UN’s Universal Periodic Review. The US is now on course to be the first country to not deliver a report to the UPR and will become the first nation to refuse to submit a report on their human rights record. What this means:
September 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
1/ The U.S. has withdrawn from the UN’s Universal Periodic Review. The US is now on course to be the first country to not deliver a report to the UPR and will become the first nation to refuse to submit a report on their human rights record. What this means:
This course covers:
✅ Mapping power and planning campaign strategy from the start
✅ Legal tactics that move beyond resistance and toward long-term wins
✅ Building coalitions that sustain momentum and withstand attacks
✅ Navigating negotiations and advocacy spaces with confidence
✅ Mapping power and planning campaign strategy from the start
✅ Legal tactics that move beyond resistance and toward long-term wins
✅ Building coalitions that sustain momentum and withstand attacks
✅ Navigating negotiations and advocacy spaces with confidence
April 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This course covers:
✅ Mapping power and planning campaign strategy from the start
✅ Legal tactics that move beyond resistance and toward long-term wins
✅ Building coalitions that sustain momentum and withstand attacks
✅ Navigating negotiations and advocacy spaces with confidence
✅ Mapping power and planning campaign strategy from the start
✅ Legal tactics that move beyond resistance and toward long-term wins
✅ Building coalitions that sustain momentum and withstand attacks
✅ Navigating negotiations and advocacy spaces with confidence
That’s why we’re inviting you to our updated training! How to Fight: Winning Campaigns in Times of Crisis is designed to help:
✔ Lawyers and legal workers fighting for justice in this moment
✔ Organizers and advocates leading community-driven campaigns
✔ Legal strategists for defense or offense
✔ Lawyers and legal workers fighting for justice in this moment
✔ Organizers and advocates leading community-driven campaigns
✔ Legal strategists for defense or offense
April 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
That’s why we’re inviting you to our updated training! How to Fight: Winning Campaigns in Times of Crisis is designed to help:
✔ Lawyers and legal workers fighting for justice in this moment
✔ Organizers and advocates leading community-driven campaigns
✔ Legal strategists for defense or offense
✔ Lawyers and legal workers fighting for justice in this moment
✔ Organizers and advocates leading community-driven campaigns
✔ Legal strategists for defense or offense
Don't miss this chance to sharpen your skills, strengthen your approach, and step into your role as a powerful campaign strategist. Apply today and we’ll see you at the training!
April 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Don't miss this chance to sharpen your skills, strengthen your approach, and step into your role as a powerful campaign strategist. Apply today and we’ll see you at the training!
At Movement Law Lab, we leverage the law to support organizers and activists like you fighting for equity and dignity for long-term change. Follow us to learn how we can build this movement together.
March 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
At Movement Law Lab, we leverage the law to support organizers and activists like you fighting for equity and dignity for long-term change. Follow us to learn how we can build this movement together.
Lawyers should use their legal advocacy in support of your community’s vision for justice.
March 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Lawyers should use their legal advocacy in support of your community’s vision for justice.
Lawyers should support them by using the law as a tactical tool to uplift their work. Together, they can shift power back to the people.
March 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Lawyers should support them by using the law as a tactical tool to uplift their work. Together, they can shift power back to the people.
Lawyers should work with you to provide new perspectives and strategies for navigating and challenging power within an entrenched system.
March 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Lawyers should work with you to provide new perspectives and strategies for navigating and challenging power within an entrenched system.
At Movement Law Lab, we train legal advocates to work alongside you as co-creators of a just future. Together you can push back against systems of oppression.
March 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
At Movement Law Lab, we train legal advocates to work alongside you as co-creators of a just future. Together you can push back against systems of oppression.
Justice isn’t an individual legal victory. It’s a shift in an organized community’s power to influence public decision-making over the long haul.
January 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Justice isn’t an individual legal victory. It’s a shift in an organized community’s power to influence public decision-making over the long haul.
Organizers & activists deserve lawyers willing to challenge entrenched systems of power.
January 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Organizers & activists deserve lawyers willing to challenge entrenched systems of power.
Lawyers should support organizers by using the law as a tactical tool to uplift their work. Together, they can shift power back to the people.
January 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Lawyers should support organizers by using the law as a tactical tool to uplift their work. Together, they can shift power back to the people.
Lawyers should take note and co-create legal strategies to help break down the barriers that stand in your way.
January 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Lawyers should take note and co-create legal strategies to help break down the barriers that stand in your way.
Even now, social movements are shifting the narrative and challenging oppression. It’s time for lawyers to join them.
January 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Even now, social movements are shifting the narrative and challenging oppression. It’s time for lawyers to join them.
Grassroots organizers want lawyers’ help not to just navigate systems, but to transform them.
December 6, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Grassroots organizers want lawyers’ help not to just navigate systems, but to transform them.