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Themes End Corporate Power End Militarism & US Imperialism Environmental Justice, Land Rights & Indigenous Sovereignty Gender Justice & Queer Liberation Immigration Policing, Prisons, Detention Power to the People & Defending Dissent

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Objectives Bring strategic litigation and build advocacy strategy to weaken ICE enforcement and detention power; expose systemic misconduct or violations and achieve redress for people targeted by US immigration policies Expose anti-Blackness within federal immigration agencies and achieve redress and accountability for people targeted by US immigration policies. Pass the Dignity Not Detention Act in several states to end immigration detention and reduce enforcement. Build power with, and fight on behalf of, the communities most vulnerable and under threat of criminalization due to their gender, sex, sexuality, immigration and disability status, economic status and area of work Commence litigation and other advocacy on behalf of communities under threat due to Trump/Project 2025. Conduct meetings with other programmatic teams to explore gender and LGBTQIA+ lenses in their work, including for strategic planning, and engaging in political education discussions. Deepen connections to grassroots organizers and build a robust network of law firms, community groups, and non-profit partners to call on for rapid-response support, expertise, co-counseling, and legal advocacy. Challenge U.S. and international anti-trans and anti-LGBTQIA backlash, and support passage of affirmative rights-based legislation at the state and local level Secure litigation wins based on the First and Fourteenth Amendments, possibly ATS and other claims. Strengthen CCR’s position as an expert in LGBTQIA+ movements and issues, resulting in CCR being invited to attend more public speaking and convenings to share information with others. Strengthen networks challenging rightwing legislative efforts by groups like ALEC, Alliance Defending Freedom, National Association of Christian Lawyers, and Heritage Foundation. Close Guantanamo and secure accountability for torture Close Guantanamo through litigation, policy advocacy and movement support/grassroots mobilization. Pursue avenues for accountability for the torture program at Gitmo and other detention sites. Support the re-integration of former Guantanamo clients. Defend front-line activists, movements and communities being targeted by constructed frameworks (e.g. “national security”, “counter-terrorism”), and challenge and begin to dismantle these frameworks and related tools Challenge the terrorism framework and limit law enforcement agencies’ ability to surveil activists, left groups and communities. Deepen FOIA and open records work and strategy to support local and national movement campaigns and work against racist immigration enforcement, particularly in support of Black communities, Black-led organizing, Palestine and Palestine supporters. Defend activists and organizers who are targeted by “security” frameworks for their anti-genocide, pro-Palestine work – and support movement partners to challenge these constructed legal frameworks and tools. Develop and implement campaigns to challenge U.S. complicity in Israel’s genocide, colonization, and belligerent occupation of Palestine At least one primary US/Israeli government actor and at least one corporation will have been found legally liable, politically accountable and/or had to answer for their actions in court. Develop and implement a campaign to prohibit US and/or NY charities from financing Israeli-based non-profits that actively further the Israeli settlement enterprise and war crimes. Shift federal policy related to: indefinite suspension of weapons shipments to Israel and secure conditions to be placed on congressional annual appropriations to Israel; End legislative policy efforts to suppress advocacy for Palestinian liberation. Get incarcerated people out of prison with a focus on those who are most systems-impacted, and support inside organizers Continue and expand JLH distribution for individuals to litigate and campaign themselves Get incarcerated people out of prisons, litigate policy improvements (re detention conditions and parole/release procedures), and help people have what they need to survive prison in the meantime, including in the South. Support inside organizers by litigating retaliation and other claims on their behalf and launching or amplifying advocacy campaigns on their behalf/in alignment with their goals, including in the South. Support coalition efforts challenging barriers to asylum and create spaces for movement partners and impacted people to reimagine humane border practices and procedures Strengthen relationships with immigrant rights groups, organizers and coalitions in the U.S. and globally. Work with movement partners to launch a multi-strategy effort to protect asylum seekers, including litigation, KYR, research, communications, policy and movement-building. Work in coalitions to continue to shift public narratives on collective safety and dignity Deepen work in coalitions (Justice Beyond Punishment, Rising Majority, Time to Act, Global Network of Movement Lawyers, Beyond Policing) to contribute CCR’s unique perspective on challenging constructed narratives of security and criminalization. Develop public messaging and materials on priority goals and related campaigns. Challenge Privatization, Corporate Capture and Impunity By 2025, identify ways to effectively disrupt oligarchic power, plutocracy and the corrupt capitalist system. By 2027, build support and re-introduce a proposal for a prohibition on federal members of Congress being able to serve on a congressional committee By 2027, secure revocation of non-profit status of key right-wing entities (e.g ALEC and/or Heritage) to end ability of right wing entities like ALEC, Alliance Defending Freedom, NACL, etc to hold private meetings to draft copycat legislation. By June 2027, at least one company engaged in an egregious case of corporate human rights abuses will be found legally liable in the United States, and CCR will have supported findings in foreign national courts. Ensure a corporate capture provision is contained within a completed UN treaty on corporate-related human rights violations. Grow and strengthen CCR’s institutional commitment to liberatory movements in the South–primarily in Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama Build and strengthen intentional long-term partnerships with grassroots organizations across the South with 3-5 organizations/partners. Ensure institutional coherence and shared understanding of the ideologies and infrastructures that create and sustain the material realities of subjugation, exploitation and abandonment of the Global South, including the US South. Resource frontline defenders and social movements in the South (particularly those fighting for gender and reproductive justice, environmental and climate justice, abolition, and labor and economic justice) Increase capacity to provide legal support and/or representation in defense of activists facing serious criminal charges or civil penalties for marginalized (but not oppressive) speech and direct action. Provide legal and advocacy support to other key partners in the South Secure moratorium on all new oil and gas facilities and expansions of existing facilities in St James Parish / Establish a moratorium on permits for new or expanded oil and gas facilities in St James Parish, La. Support and partner with Inclusive LA, Descendant’s Project, RISE, and others in the River Parishes to achieve and assert community control of burial sites of enslaved people, and the surrounding areas. Work with partners to continue to shift public narratives on protecting human dignity for marginalized communities and advancing environmental and economic justice. Deepen work in coalitions to contribute CCR’s unique perspective on centering frontline defenders and challenging corporate power. Develop public messaging and materials on priority goals and related campaigns. Invest in and cultivate a network of next generation of movement lawyers and advocates Encourage organization-wide investment and participation in internship/fellowship program, and increase mentorship capacity among all programmatic staff. Ensure continued connection with and support of past fellows, interns and volunteers. Seek out recruitment opportunities for internship and staff positions in under-explored sources. Share CCR Movement Lawyering and Advocacy approach with wider network of emerging lawyers and advocates.

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