Many organizations are doing important work in the community, including in restorative justice, transformative law, collaborative law, mediation, and activism, among others. PISLAP members of these organizations include Fania Davis, Doug Ammar, Mika Dashman, and other community activists.

INTERNATIONAL ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS LINK

MORE HEALING, LESS PUNISHMENT

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INITIATIVE (RJI) IS A new york city, MULTI-SECTOR NETWORK OF PRACTITIONERS, ADVOCATES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS SEEKING TO INCREASE SUPPORT FOR, AND ACCESS TO, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE APPROACHES FOR ALL NEW YORKERS.

Tikkun Mission Statement

TIKKUN UPLIFTS JEWISH, INTERFAITH, AND SECULAR PROPHETIC VOICES OF HOPE THAT CONTRIBUTE TO UNIVERSAL LIBERATION. A CATALYST FOR LONG-TERM SOCIAL CHANGE WE EMPOWER PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES TO HEAL THE WORLD BY EMBRACING REVOLUTIONARY LOVE, COMPASSION, AND EMPATHY. WE PROMOTE A CARING SOCIETY THAT PROTECTS THE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM OF THE PLANET AND CELEBRATES THE EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE WITH AWE AND RADICAL AMAZEMENT.

The Bronx Defenders is a public defender nonprofit that is radically transforming how low-income people in the Bronx are represented in the justice system and, in doing so, is transforming the system itself.

Impact Justice is a national innovation and research center that is committed to reducing the number of people involved in our juvenile and adult criminal justice system, improving conditions for those who remain incarcerated, providing meaningful opportunities for success for those rejoining our communities and improving justice outcomes for crime victims.

To understand RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR OAKLAND YOUTH (RJOY) work, it is first important to understand our four pillars. Every one of our programs falls under one, or multiple of these pillars, and together they tell a comprehensive story about breaking the pervasive cycles of racialized violence and incarceration through practices of Restorative Justice.

Georgia Justice Project strengthens our community by demonstrating a better way to represent and support individuals in the criminal justice system and reduce barriers to reentry. GJP promotes innovative change through direct legal representation, policy advocacy, education and coalition building.

The Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) was formally launched with founding conferences in Berkeley in 2005 and Washington, D.C. in 2006, attracting together approximately 3,000 people interested in spiritual activism. In the next two years we grew to approximately 100 chapters around the U.S. from Seattle to Miami.

ALLIANCE FOR Unitive Justice is a model that falls within the broad umbrella of Restorative Justice, but at the best practices end of the spectrum because it has no punitive elements. It is also a model that is recognized within the international Integrative Law Movement. When implemented with fidelity, Unitive Justice is a path to transformative system change.

There are several organizations in the United Kingdom that PISLAP has become aware of through its collaboration with The Conscious Lawyer. Their important work is summarized below:

1. Legal Innovation and Community Charters : 

(a) Established Community Charter for Falkirk (http://www.faug.org.uk/campaign/community-charter),
its place in bringing communities together to resist unconventional gas extraction in Scotland (http://www.yestolifenotomining.org/falkirk/ ).

(b) Established Community Charter for St Ives, bringing communities together to give a sense of identity - see video

(c) draft Charter with Darlington, meeting community in East Gilling in North Yorkshire on 1 Feb who are interested in a Charter to help them resist fracking.

 2. Watershed Charters and Public Trust Doctrine

(a) Commissioned by the Bioregional Learning Centre to carry out work for a Watershed Charter.

3. Collaboration with Universities

(a) Gave workshop to Sussex Uni’s LLM students introducing them to earth law principles (Nov 2017)

(b) Giving workshop to Westminster Uni LLM students in March 2017 with Andreas, around “Emotional
Contouring and Spatial Ethics for Spatial Justice”.

(c) Potential legal clinic collaboration with Sussex Uni’s LLM students (see below)

4. Unregulated Legal Services (under Legal Services Act 2007)

(a) A market in “unregulated legal services” is a disruption that can allow “value led” practices to emerge.

Interview of Mothiur by Elaine:

Mothiur Rahman is a co- founder of the Community Chartering Network and is setting up a legal practice called New Economy Law. He supports clients who are passionate about bringing in a more ecological and beautiful world, developing legal strategies with them to unlock new possibilities for a rapidly changing world. neweconomylaw.org

Law and Power: Community Charters by Mothiur Rahman LINK

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