Photo from the book launch. Sitting from left to right, Baher Azmy, Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights; Alejandra Ancheita, founder and Executive Director of the Mexico City-based NGO ProDESC (The Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Project), and Center for Constitutional Rights Board Member; Ayisha Siddiqa, Pakistani-American Climate Justice Advocate recently named a TIME Woman of the Year; and Katie Redford, Executive Director, Equation Campaign and editor of the book.
Every person in this book has spent their lives acting like the house is on fire and responding to the world’s most pressing problems with the urgency they deserve. But more than that, they are offering a roadmap for doing what is often considered to be impossible, but necessary. They are the true leaders that the world needs to listen to and follow.”
– Greta Thunberg
Last week, we celebrated the release of The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated. At the launch, Baher Azmy and Alejandra Ancheita told compelling stories of successful movement lawyering in a transnational context. Alejandra spoke of ProDESC’s recent success with the Indigenous community of Unión Hidalgo in Mexico, defending their collective rights to land, territory, and natural resources against the wind power industry, and Baher told the story of lawyering with Black and Brown communities against the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices. This year marks the 10th anniversary of that extraordinary win. In April, the Center for Constitutional Rights, ProDESC and the European Center for Human and Constitutional Rights convened a powerful global meeting in Mexico City to deepen transnational work that centers Gender, Racial and Environmental justice in human rights work. You can order a copy of The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated through OR Books.
Source: Frontlines of Justice Newsletter
