Equal Justice Society (EJS)

One of the most important suggestions in Professor Timothy Snyder's book 'On Tyranny' is to support organizations doing good work. The Equal Justice Society is one of those organizations. Please give generously. https://lnkd.in/g2Qwy4UU

Please consider donating to the Equal Justice Society (EJS) on this #GivingTuesday! I’m proud to serve as the Director of Development for this great org forged in the struggle and prepared for these challenging times. Together with you, we can continue to bend the arc towards justice. Donate 👉 https://lnkd.in/e9Q2qGA4

#GivingTuesday is on December 3. Please consider adding the Equal Justice Society as one of your beneficiaries. We also welcome your donation today or at any time to our Democracy Defense Fund! Thank you! Donate 👉 https://lnkd.in/g-sdvccC Save the Date 📲 https://lnkd.in/g4PhqnDu

EJS welcomes Vanessa Holman as our 2024-2025 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow – a fellowship honoring the first African American woman to serve on the federal bench. The Motley Fellowship is funded by a generous gift from Elizabeth J. Cabraser. We established the Fellowship in 2006 to nurture the talents of a new generation of progressive lawyers to transform anti-discrimination law and policy. https://lnkd.in/gmeB6c5S

On this day we are steadfast and resolute social justice warriors. This day is no different than yesterday in the critical sense that we still have the fundamentals. Our hearts still beat fiercely for equity, we still have the love of our friends and family, we still have the warmth and comfort of home and hearth, our values are intact, and we stand in solidarity and amity with our colleagues and fellow travelers and each other. There is no force, no matter how wretched, that can stop us from bending the arc toward justice and accountability and from delivering our ancestors and their legacy of hope and liberation from the margins of the American experience to the center of it. We will continue to be the keepers of the flame that lights the path to justice and truth and equal opportunity. EJS is energized to double down on its commitment to transforming the nation's consciousness on race by championing programs and narratives that dismantle systems of racial oppression. We will redouble our efforts to repair the nation through reparations, advance Black women’s health equity, deploy implicit bias elimination research and implementation, end the school-to-prison industrial complex, fix school discipline, cultivate diverse multiracial pipelines connected to fair housing, education, and employment opportunities, and articulate the evidence-based, historically accurate, critically informed culture narratives that advance multiracial inclusive democracy and shatter the myth of white superiority. Please stand with us in recommitting to this work that is our salvation. Onward.

All of us at the Equal Justice Society congratulate our colleague and friend Mona Tawatao, EJS Legal Director, on being recognized by the Western Center on Law & Poverty with its 2024 Mary Burdick Advocates Award! Mona receives the award tonight at Western Center’s Garden Party in Los Angeles. Go Mona!!!

The fight for reparations is far from over! Join California Black Power Network on IG Live https://lnkd.in/ggt5bUkq tomorrow, Thursday, 9/19, @ 6:30 pm PDT for a community discussion! We’re setting the record straight to continue strategizing and organizing to move reparations forward in California. #ReparationsNow #Cali4Reparations

All of us at the Equal Justice Society congratulate Eva on receiving the 2024 Thurgood Marshall Award for her incredible contributions to advancing civil rights. Her audacity, courage, and perseverance serve as our guiding lights as we continue the important work she started. This is the tribute video they played at the awards dinner. For a link to photos from the event, visit https://lnkd.in/gNwiHjPq. https://lnkd.in/gKYmGkAU

Asian Law Caucus senior staff attorney Carl Takei reflects on how Japanese Americans are learning about and engaging in reparations for Black people in California, most recently at this year’s annual pilgrimage to Tule Lake, a prison camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. “At this year’s pilgrimage … we connected the Japanese American fight for redress to today’s fight to secure reparations for Black Americans. … The first step in our community healing was to publicly share our stories, even knowing that some would resist hearing the ugly truth. … Today, we are in the midst of a similar exercise in public truth-telling and advocacy led by Black Americans.” Read Carl’s column in the Nichi Bei News: https://lnkd.in/gtxUVa4c EJS is proud to be part of ARRT, the Alliance for Reparations, Reconciliation, and Truth. #CaliforniaStrongforAll #ARRTCalifornia #TruthAndHealing

Lieff Cabraser partner Tiseme Zegeye is featured prominently in a new San Francisco Chronicle article that delves into Lieff Cabraser and Equal Justice Society (EJS)’s critical lawsuit against chemical hair relaxers linked to cancer. Tiseme shares that this work is profoundly personal, describing her own experiences with hair relaxers and the associated risks. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gnyYkNi9