Law as a Tool
Channel: Soil Not Oil Coalition
Date: 2019-01-22

In this panel, Adelita San Vicente Tello, Michelle Ciccarelly Lerach, and Janelle Orsi speak on the importance of using legislation to create policies that protect the environment and underprivileged societies

Adelita San Vicente Tello works with Semillas de Vida in Mexico, an organization that works to support agroecology, food security, and agrobiodiversity in Mexico. 
http://www.semillasdevida.org.mx/ 

Michelle Ciccarelly Lerach of MCL Law Group has dedicated her life to fighting for those without enough voice, from fighting for immigrants’ rights as a young law student to serving as partner/Of Counsel to one of the nation’s largest plaintiff’s firms, representing shareholders, workers, and consumers in a broad range of complex and class-action litigations for fraudulent business practices, human rights abuses, and labor and employment violations.

Janelle Orsi is a lawyer, advocate, writer, and cartoonist focused on cooperatives, the sharing economy, land trusts, shared housing, local currencies, and rebuilding the commons. She is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), which facilitates the growth of more sustainable and localized economies through education, research, and advocacy. 
https://www.theselc.org/

Presented at the Soil Not Oil 2018 Environmental Conference, San Francisco CA

Soil Not Oil  promotes agro-ecological practices and community powered solutions to restore ecosystems and reach environmental justice.
http://soilnotoilcoalition.org/

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