Community Activism Law Alliance

Maximize legal resources for underserved communities in Chicago.

Other | United States of America | Capacity Building |

 

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Community Activism Law Alliance (CALA) uses a model of community activism lawyering to unite lawyers and activists to collaboratively help underserved communities access justice and pursue social change. Through these partnerships CALA creates activism law clinics within and by Chicago communities with the highest rates of poverty and crime. They provide free legal services to undocumented immigrants laborers and sex workers while supporting their partners grassroots activism for greater empowered and more durable impact than what lawyers and the law alone could achieve. CALA hopes to change how attorneys and activists nationwide work for and with communities.

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