powell (April 2012) And how do we effectuate that cultural shift, engage in the process of building communities, and resuscitate a social justice movement that insists on an expansive and inclusive worldview? Yes, we are lawyers but I think we are more than legal tacticians who are trained to maneuver regulations. To begin with a sense of belonging, we must agree on a core set of values, and that as stewards of a justice system we have inherited, we must be moved by history and drawn to the challenge of reframing our future prospects. 3. at the table of justice. “Belonging” Last month, at the Washington Supreme Court, I had the chance to talk a about the need to make room at the figurative of justice” there, as a poverty lawyer “table – urging that the significance of our work and role as a profession, as stewards of justice, is largely about continually striving to make room at the table. And it is at this infinite table of justice that transcends time and place, that we may sit together, form a sense of belonging and find that we genuinely might satisfy a common hunger for equality and fairness. In the context of serving people who are poor and experience barriers beyond their physical poverty, the role of the attorneys I work with and admire is to make room at the table and to reassure those who may live at the margins that they do belong by revealing whatever the injustice, attorneys I know and work with aim to – amplify the voice of clients and communities who may have historically been left
powell (April 2012) And how do we effectuate that cultural shift, engage in the process of building communities, and resuscitate a social justice movement that insists on an expansive and inclusive worldview? Yes, we are lawyers but I think we are more than legal tacticians who are trained to maneuver regulations. To begin with a sense of belonging, we must agree on a core set of values, and that as stewards of a justice system we have inherited, we must be moved by history and drawn to the challenge of reframing our future prospects. 3. “Belonging” at the table of justice. Last month, at the Washington Supreme Court, I had the chance to talk a about the need to make room at the figurative “table of justice” – there, as a poverty lawyer urging that the significance of our work and role as a profession, as stewards of justice, is largely about continually striving to make room at the table. And it is at this infinite table of justice that transcends time and place, that we may sit together, form a sense of belonging and find that we genuinely might satisfy a common hunger for equality and fairness. In the context of serving people who are poor and experience barriers beyond their physical poverty, the role of the attorneys I work with and admire is to make room at the table and to reassure those who may live at the margins that they do belong – by revealing whatever the injustice, attorneys I know and work with aim to amplify the voice of clients and communities who may have historically been left
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