Building a community of defenders to drive systemic reform requires that we teach them much more than just lawyering skills and legal doctrine.
It is community-based defenders of the environment who know only too well what undermines or strengthens their livelihoods, that are like environmental bomb disposal experts, risking their lives in the field, on the frontline.
As the scientific community's unofficial defender of reason against the onslaught of "cosmophobia," planetary scientist David Morrison sees a long year or so ahead for him.
But one thing is certain: As the scientific community's unofficial defender of reason against the onslaught of such "cosmophobia," planetary scientist David Morrison sees a long year or so ahead for him.
ROBIN G. STEINBERG Bronx, July 23 , 2001The writer is executive director of the Bronx Defenders, a community-based public defender office.
Whether he has dared show it to communities secretary Eric Pickles, defender of the Englishman's inalienable right to a weekly bin round, is unknown.
Wherever they have gone, they have eliminated anyone who opposed them, including thousands of trade unionists, human rights defenders, community leaders, judges and ordinary civilians.
There is still a passionate and committed community of water defenders in every corner of the world, who are working harder than ever to bring attention to the cause of waterway protection.
All that led Sen Dianne Feinstein – normally the intelligence community's most ardent defender – to give a blistering speech that excoriated the CIA for spying on its overseers then lying about it afterward.
"Every time a shock jock makes a comment like 'I bet that will go down well at the Acma' that tells me that the defender of community safeguards is in their subconscious," he said.
