Movement Partnerships

Movement Partnerships works alongside networks & alliances of grassroots organizing groups in the housing justice, racial justice, climate justice, and pro-democracy sectors and builds long-term and rapid-response legal infrastructure to address legal needs and legal vulnerabilities.

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We believe that it is our sacred responsibility to support, flank and bolster the work of social movements when they call upon us to do so. We work with lawyers supporting movements and the movements themselves. We help movement groups determine legal needs, assess how legal strategies could be useful to power-building projects, and develop new approaches to trusted tactics and re-imagined strategies.

Movement Partnerships is currently working with:

  • The Right to the City Alliance on programming to activate lawyers to stop evictions and support tenant power. We build durable structures for lawyers and grassroots organizers to collaborate within long-range, bold, transformative strategies for housing as a human right. One such structure is the Level Up Housing Justice Fellowship to invest in emerging leaders in housing justice on building legal prowess organizing and campaign skills, and creating regional solidarity among housing lawyers and organizers.

  • Pro-democracy/anti-authoritarianism coalitions to share recommendations from research published as an online toolset. This includes strategy support to national movements over the next few years.

  • Racial justice, Black liberation, and economic justice coalitions on community power building projects. Working with multiracial democracy groups such as the Frontlines and Rising Majority, we are synching democracy defense and voting access strategies and advancing the safety of our movements.

  • We provide legal capacity analysis, strategy and advice on the creation of new  legal organizations and national legal networks to flank immigrant rights, workers rights, abolition and climate justice movements, including Just Futures Law, National Legal Advocacy Network,  Just Transition Legal Network, Detroit Justice Center, Community Justice Project, and more.

We believe that leaders across social movements know that now is the time to level up and move beyond short-term, defensive fights.  As part of our partnership with the Right to the City Alliance we have launched the Level Up Housing Justice Fellowship. 

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