Purpose of this Blog

I want to uncover the history of #activism, analyze its effectiveness, and discuss how it might be used as a tool for public interest litigation organizations. Hopefully these posts will add some value to your understanding of these topics as well as my own. I welcome comments and will likely be trying some posts that require online community participation, so I hope I get some!

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