Palestine Legal: "The Great Difference a Movement Lawyer Can Make" [TEASER]

5-4

Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We're back with another episode of Rhiannon's movement lawyering series! In this episode, Rhiannon talks with Palestine Legal's senior staff attorney Radhika Sainath and staff attorney Dylan Saba about their mission to protect Palestinian activists from harassment, and the power of intersectional liberation movements.

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0:00.0	Cool.
0:01.0	Alright, thanks for having us.
0:03.0	Yeah, thanks for having us.
0:04.0	We take a selfie.
0:05.0	Yeah, we take a selfie.
0:06.0	Yeah, we take a selfie.
0:07.0	Hi everyone, it's Rianan.
0:13.1	No Peter, no Michael this episode because this is my special episode, okay?
0:18.2	Honestly, you're welcome.
0:21.0	This is the second episode in a little 5-4-side project that I'm doing.
0:25.3	A look into the work of lawyers who are advocating and fighting for social justice in all kinds
0:30.2	of legal spaces.
0:31.8	From the environment to racial and gender equality, shrinking the prison industrial complex,
0:37.3	queer liberation, expanding rights for the disabled, you name it.
0:42.3	We talk so much on the podcast about what's wrong with the law.
0:45.4	So I think it's important to talk about the good fight that's happening in the law right
0:48.6	now.
0:49.6	People ask us all the time, how can I be a leftist and a lawyer?
0:53.5	What work is there to be done in the law?
0:55.8	Is it all hopeless?
0:57.4	This is why I was inspired to start these episodes.
1:00.6	Broadly in this series, we're talking about movement loyary.
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