Movement Law Lab Blog

Dispatches, insights, and strategies for the movements shaping our future. Movement Law Lab shares timely analysis on democracy, legal advocacy, and the tools organizers need to protect social movements, resist authoritarianism, and build toward collective liberation.

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We at the Movement Law Lab (MLL) are lawyers troubled by the threat of rising authoritarianism and the capture of US legal institutions.  We believe the law can be leveraged to intervene in and interrupt the erosion of our democracy — but it will require a massive transformation of our sector and a new power-building commitment to bolster, defend and embolden social movement organizers. These “Democracy Dispatches” are an agitation to the legal sector to fulfill our role in fighting for a multiracial, pluralistic democracy.

Over the course of this series, we hope to make meaning of the current moment and help both lawyers and organizers understand the gravity of what is at stake when democracy erodes.  We’ll offer encouragement for how lawyers in every sector can become protagonists in the pro-democracy movement.  We’ll also lift up examples of lawyers and legal institutions who are moving beyond winning cases to building collective power. 

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¡Basta ya! La lucha española para limitar la especulación inmobiliaria
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¡Basta ya! La lucha española para limitar la especulación inmobiliaria

Bajo lemas como Canarias tiene un límite”,¡Basta!Pongamos límites al turismo”, o “¡Se acabó!Bajemos los alquileres”, movilizaciones masivas se han extendido recientemente por toda España. Los movimientos son una reacción contra la sobreexplotación del territorio, la especulación inmobiliaria alimentada por el capital internacional y los efectos de la turistificación extrema.

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Abogacía popular en tiempos de autoritarismo creciente
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Abogacía popular en tiempos de autoritarismo creciente

En julio de 2024 reunimos en Río de Janeiro a un grupo de abogados, académicos, militantes y activistas para discutir cómo los abogados populares han utilizado y están utilizando el derecho en diferentes contextos para apoyar a movimientos sociales que enfrentan regímenes represivos o autoritarios.

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