WASHINGTON, DC — Saturday, Jan. 21 and Sunday, Jan. 22, members of Lawyers for Good Government, a new national organization of more than 120,000 lawyers, paralegals, law students and activists committed to doing pro-bono work to defend civil and human rights, and to establish a government designed to put the interests of the American people first, will assemble at the Rise Above conference in DC to coordinate the new movement and plan legal resistance to the incoming Trump Administration and Republican controlled Congress.
The conference, planned and hosted by Lawyers for Good Government and RISE When We Fall, is designed to harness, empower and coordinate the unprecedented political energy that has emerged since Donald Trump won the Presidency and convert that momentum into a meaningful strategy to protect civil rights and vulnerable communities in the US. The conference begins on Saturday, January 21st, after the Women’s March on Washington and will feature a performance by Grammy Award-winning artist Ani DiFranco.
Lawyers for Good Government is one of the central groups leading counter-inauguration programming in DC. Lawyers for Good Government is an official partner of the Women’s March on Washington and expects more than 1,200 members from across the country to participate in the March.
“In the wake of the 2016 election, an army of more than 120,000 lawyers, law students, and activists has risen up in defense of the values and democratic principles that make America a truly great nation,” explained Traci Feit Love, founder of Lawyers for Good Government. “We are a pro bono army ready and willing to fight alongside and on behalf of individuals and communities at risk under the new administration.”
Lawyers for Good Government was founded in the hours after the November election by Traci Feit Love, a Harvard Law School graduate and single mother who quickly gathered more than 122,000 lawyers and activists determined to challenge and resist the Trump Administration’s anticipated abuses of power and attacks on human rights. Lawyers for Good Government started off as a post-election Facebook group that quickly grew into a massive organization of lawyers, with 48 chapters and members in all 50 states.
For more information about the Rise Above Conference, including updated speakers and panels, click here: http://www.riseaboveconference.org/
