Morgan MooneEditors Note: This is an inaugural piece for our Women’s Movement Series that will curate articles written and supported by activists and advocates working to create a more inclusive, global women’s movement. It will run from October 2018 to...
As the United States watched Kavanaugh’s first day unfold on Tuesday, October 9th, law students were busy organizing a strike against Kavanaugh’s lifetime appointment. Grassroots activism led by Justine Medina, Alex Petkanas and Oren Kadosh, members...
Chaumtoli HuqBy Chaumtoli Huq, Editor [dropcap]U[/dropcap]nion membership in the private sector has declined. Many people may have grown up in non-union households and do not know what it is like to strike or to have a family member be on strike. I believe that...
“Exhausted from labor, I had no idea what to even say or ask. I never ended up receiving an overview of the process, nor any information on what I should expect or do post-partum. I was in the hospital for four days post op. Four days of...
By Morgan Moone, Associate Editor [dropcap]A[/dropcap]ccording to Omar Baddar, deputy director of the Arab American Institute, it is “conventional wisdom that you cannot criticize Israel in American politics.” For years, pro-Palestinian sentiments...
Labor Day is a paradox for farmworkers. Thanks to the racist context in which the National Labor Relations Act was passed, some key labor rights laws in the U.S. still exclude or fail agricultural workers. And while the labor movement has pioneered...
By Samira Abrar Editor’s note: Samira Abrar is a graduate of American University in Kabul, Afghanistan, with a degree in law. She has worked for USAID-funded rule of law projects and the MEC Anti-Corruption Committee in Afghanistan for several...
By Andrea Folds, a recent graduate of law school and seminary, who is excited to rejoin the world. [dropcap]D[/dropcap]ewayne “Lee” Johnson has been given only months to live by the doctors treating him for Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. The last...
By Morgan Moone, Associate Editor [dropcap]P[/dropcap]resident Trump, in his declaration celebrating Religious Freedom Day on January 16, 2018, wrote that “No American– whether a nun, nurse, baker, or business owner — should be forced to...
Debra WilmerThe U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Janus v. AFSCME is only the latest attack on the right to organize in a country where that right is constantly in peril. In August of 2000, Human Rights Watch published a report titled “Unfair...
