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Twitter is for roasting Donald Trump. Building a democracy? Not so much. - The Boston Globe Will a “civic tech” boomlet in the Bay State bring us a better online politics?

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At HiiL, we believe in supporting startups from the justice sector that offer solutions to people's justice needs. This is a core part of people-centred justice.

Over the past decade, we have supported 150+ justice startups throughout the world. We have worked with entrepreneurs who are data-driven, evidence based, and are focused on creating change in their communities and beyond. These game-changing startups are driving people-centred justice and are impacting people’s lives by solving their most pressing justice issues.

This is why we run the Justice Accelerator programme and are proud to present our 2022 Justice startups at .

On February 15th, we’ll award the top prize to the best justice sector innovation of the past year.
📺 Tune in: https://www.hiil.org/our-events/justice-accelerator-demo-day-2023/

Registration for a2ru/Imagining America webinar "Artists and Scholars Changing Culture, Creating Change: Findings from an Imagining America Research Initiative" Please use this form to register* for the a2ru/Imagining America collaborative webinar "Artists and Scholars Changing Culture, Creating Change: Findings from an Imagining America Research Initiative." The webinar will take place on Zoom Thursday, February 23 from 3:00-4:30pm Eastern/noon-1:30pm Paci...

Jean Camper Cahn was a true visionary for legal services in Connecticut and the nation. Originally from Baltimore, Cahn attended Yale Law School. She was a staff attorney at Neighborhood Legal Service in New Haven, which was the predecessor to what we now know as New Haven Legal Assistance! She also served as associate general counsel for the New Haven Redevelopment Agency. Cahn and her husband, Edgar Cahn, co-authored a Yale Law Journal article, “The War on Poverty: A Civilian Perspective,” which proposed a national system of legal services to the poor.” This would spark the establishment of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). In 1964, Cahn moved to Washington DC. Cahn to become the first director of the National Legal Services Program in the Office of Economic Opportunity, and later she founded the Urban Law Institute at George Washington University. In 1972, the Cahns founded the Antioch School of Law which emphasized public interest law. The school used a clinic education model to train its students. Mrs. Cahn continued to teach and to practice law. In 1984 she was a distinguished visiting professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, and in 1986 she was a distinguished visiting scholar at the London School of Economics.

The work ahead for Boston's new reparations task force Joseph Feaster is and the chair of the task force. He speaks with WBUR's Morning Edition host Rupa Shenoy about the group, its scope and the case for reparation.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: You now have until February 14 to submit to "Creating Knowledge in Common," the latest special issue of Ground Works, our award-winning online journal. The issue, focused on university-community partnered inquiry, is guest-edited by Shannon Criss of The University of Kansas and Kevin Hamilton and Mary Pat McGuire of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. https://groundworks.io/proposals/3/home_show

This is the story of the Syrian Justice Innovation Project - HiiL This is the story of a diverse group of Syrians who decided to put their differences aside to achieve one goal: help the people of Syria solve their daily most pressing justice problems.

Congratulations Marisa Jahn!!!