Towards Collective Liberation

Towards Collective Liberation

More than 400 years after the first European settlement of Turtle Island, Palestine Legal acknowledges that the territory on which we live is the product of ongoing settler colonialism, racial and religious supremacy. We understand Israel to be the product of these same forces.

Because the injustices our communities face are interrelated, the contemporary attacks on Indigenous activism, Palestinian rights, and on Black and Brown lives cannot be separated. That’s why we’re are proud to support those working towards justice in Palestine, to stand alongside Black and Indigenous advocates fighting for justice on Turtle Island, and to build strategies for legal support across movements.

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Resisting Attacks on Black, Indigenous, and Palestinian Organizing Through Solidarity

Resisting Attacks on Black, Indigenous, and Palestinian Organizing Through Solidarity

Palestine Legal participated in this year’s National Lawyers Guild #Law4ThePeople convention in a panel on "Criminalizing the Right to Protest: State Crack Downs on Black, Indigenous, and Palestinian Resistance." Senior staff attorney Radhika Sainath spoke alongside movement lawyers and activists from Greenpeace USA, the Water Protector Legal Collective, Law for Black Lives, and Black Lives Matter DC. The following are some highlights from each speaker:

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Thanksgiving Reflection

Thanksgiving Reflection

This Thanksgiving, we recognize our own status as settlers on Native land, and we pledge to stand against the continued loss of sacred lands to developers and oil companies, the spoliation of water sources, and the exploitation of communities.

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This "Thanksgiving"...

This "Thanksgiving"...

This “Thanksgiving,” Palestine Legal recalls the fact that the holiday is “a completely made up story,” “the origin story of the United States, the beginning of genocide and dispossession and constant warfare…a colonial system that was set up,” as indigenous historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz recently stated

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