Watch Party: Power-Building for the Long Haul

Come join the LPE Society at Berkeley, the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law (BJELL), and the Berkeley Law and Organizing Collective (BLOC) to watch the LPE Project launch its new Law & Organizing Initiative with a virtual panel of movement leaders! The Law & Organizing Initiative seeks to create more space for organizing as a practice and theory of change in law schools. This event will feature Rachel Gilmer (Dream Defenders), Astra Taylor (Debt Collective), and Tara Raghuveer (KC Tenants), and will be moderated by Yale Professor of American Studies Daniel Martinez HoSang.

We’re reserving a room so we can watch the virtual panel together at the law school. You can RSVP for the watch party here. If you can’t make the watch party but still want to tune in, you can register for the webinar at this link. And if you want to receive updates on the work of the Law & Organizing Initiative at the LPE Project, you can sign up here.

Building powerful movements for racial and economic justice requires organizing mass numbers of people with a stake in the fight. This event will ask how movement organizations are base-building for the long haul in the face of stark inequality, deep divisions, and waves of backlash: what does it take to bring in new members and develop leaders? How does an organized base of members decide strategy? What are the tensions between fighting for material wins in the here-and-now, and collectively determining a vision for long-term transformation?

Rachel Gilmer is Co-Executive Director of Dream Defenders, a membership-based organization of Black, brown, and working-class youth, young adults and students across the state of Florida and growing nationally.

Astra Taylor is Co-Founder of the Debt Collective, a national debtors’ union fighting to cancel debt and defend millions of households.

Tara Raghuveer is founding Director of KC Tenants, a citywide tenant union of poor and working-class tenants organizing to ensure everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.