Advancement Project Launches a New Site for the Community Justice Resource Center

INTRODUCTION

Advancement Project is pleased to present you with the first issue of our Community Justice Resource Center (CJRC) Newsletter. The focus of this Issue is Multiracial Coalition Building. Tune into audio excerpts from last Springâs dynamic symposium on Building A Multiracial Social Justice Movement to hear ideas and strategies from Prof. Lani Guinier, Prof. Gerald Torres, Lenina Nadal, Si Kahn and many others. Or, listen to a Poetry Slam by the Blackout Arts Collective and order a free copy of the written journal of the proceedings. Then, post your own questions and views on our Message Board and brainstorm with colleagues around the country.

This Newsletter will highlight information and resources that are available to assist lawyers and community groups engaged in creative partnerships to advance racial and social justice. (We call this the ãCommunity Justiceä approach). We invite you to join with us as we build this center into a vibrant source of information and communication on the crucial social and racial justice issues of our time. We also invite all users of the CJRC to contact us, via email, with your comments and ideas at cjrc@advancementproject.org

INTERACTIVE MESSAGE BOARD

We encourage you to visit our message board to post your points of view, as well as participate in and stimulate dialogue about Community Justice issues.

CALENDAR

We aim to compile a comprehensive listing of events that pertain to Community Justice. Please email us at cjrc@advancementproject.org with information on events of interest.

MULTIRACIAL SOCIAL JUSTICE

To hear streaming audio files from the New York City Symposium focused on The Miner«s Canary, a new book by Prof. Lani Guinier & Prof. Gerald Torres, click here. To order a copy of the NYU Symposium journal of proceedings, please contact us with your request and mailing information at cjrc@advancementproject.org

In the coming months we will add more resources to the CJRC including a multi-media documentation of several multiracial coalition building initiatives around the country. Additionally, we will make available two guides aimed at enhancing and strengthening Community Justice advocacy work and techniques. They are:

• CJRC Communications Guide-An overview of creative and strategic communications for social justice advocacy.
• CJRC Research and Data Guide-A look at creative ways to find and utilize information and data in the quest for social justice. The guide will describe inspiring examples, as well as lay out the nuts and bolts of gathering and using research.

ADVANCEMENT PROJECT

The CJRC also offers you access to Advancement Project's publications, reports and guides in the following areas: urban peace, democracy and education. Whether you need information on the community justice model, community-centered policing, the re-enfranchisement of persons who have been released from jail or zero-tolerance policies in schools, the CJRC has something for you. Click here.

We invite you to submit your ideas and analyses in the form of an essay of 800 words or less for possible publication on our site. All submissions should be made to cjrc@advancementproject.org.

The following publications are representative of the three areas on which Advancement Project focuses. Click on the graphic or title of each publication to read the entire report of each.

LOUDER THAN WORDS: Lawyers, Communities, and the Struggle for Justice Authored by Advancement Project's co-director Penda Hair and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, this report was published in March 2001. It uncovers important developments in the practice of civil rights law that respond to changes in the law and public opinion, and that build on the best traditions of the civil rights and other social movements.