as a trained lawyer, what I try to do is use my legal skill… - Derecka Purnell

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as a trained lawyer, what I try to do is use my legal skills to help organizers figure out how to wage campaigns against oppressive institutions. Sometimes that means reducing power for the police. Sometimes it means trying to close a jail or a prison.

Derecka Purnell

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is a human rights lawyer, author, abolitionist, and columnist living in the USA.

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