Justice at Home

"We have always had a planned economy. It depended a little on who planned it what it was planned for. So it is time that the plans were made with a little greater emphasis on the general welfare."  

-Robert H. Jackson, Address to Senior Law Students at Georgetown University

Welcome to Justice at Home, a special edition newsletter from the Robert H. Jackson Center that hits your inbox every three weeks with updates on our virtual programming, lesson plans and lectures, and interesting finds from our digital archives. 

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Tea Time with the Jackson Center: The Louisiana Bucket Brigade

Our 2021 programming theme is The Work Left to Do, and within that theme we'll explore a different focus each month. In the first Tea of the month, we will look at a topic from a broader perspective to understand the universal and legal challenges. For the second Tea of the month, we will speak with those doing the work to educate and/or advance change so we can understand the continuing challenges and how we contribute to change in our own communities. For the month of March, our programming is focused on issues of environmental justice.

Our March 25 Tea Guest is Anne Rolfes, Director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade. Anne (pictured above) began her career in Nigeria, collaborating with local communities to address oil companies’ destruction of the Niger Delta. She returned to Louisiana in 2000 and founded the Louisiana Bucket Brigade to end the petrochemical industry’s destruction of her home state. The organization has prioritized media as a tool to amplify the voices of the leaders along Cancer Alley and has created cutting-edge tools to document and expose the industry’s abuse of the state.

Anne and Kristan will discuss the work of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade to advance environmental justice by working with the fenceline communities to document the impacts and advocate for changes, enforcement, and remediation.

If you have a Facebook account, follow RHJC's page and Kristan's page to be notified when we go live. You can interact with us by commenting on the video during the live stream. Share the video link with your friends on Facebook and other social media accounts using the hashtag #TeawithRHJC.

If you don't have a Facebook account, click here at 3pm to view the Tea on the Center's public Facebook page. You can catch up on previous Teas on our website or YouTube channel.

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Equal Opportunity

Today is Women's Equal Pay Day, which marks the day into the year on which it takes for women on average to catch up to what men were paid in calendar year 2020. In February, President and CEO of United WE. Wendy Doyle spoke with Kristan about United WE's work to advance equality for women, including equal pay, during a Tea Time program. Watch the video on our YouTube channel by clicking the video above.

Coming Up at the Jackson Center

Thursday, March 25 at 3pm: Tea Time with the Jackson Center: The Louisiana Bucket Brigade

Friday, April 2: RHJC closed for the Good Friday holiday

Thursday, April 8 at 3pm: Tea Time with the Jackson Center with Audra Wilson

Our Tea Time theme for April is Economic Justice. We'll kick off this conversation with Audra Wilson, Executive Director and CEO of the Shriver Center on Poverty Law. (pictured.) Join us live on Facebook and ask your questions!

Thank You to our April #TeawithRHJC Sponsor: Humanities NY

The mission of Humanities New York is to strengthen civil society and the bonds of community, using the humanities to foster engaged inquiry and dialogue around social and cultural concerns. 

From Jackson's Desk

Robert H. Jackson was a gifted orator and writer. Many of his articles and speech transcripts are housed on our website. We feature them in our weekly #TuesdayMotivation and #SundayQuote on the Jackson Center's social media pages. 

Jackson, then Solicitor General to the United States, addressed the Illinois Municipal League in Rockford, Illinois on September 14, 1938. Entitled "General Welfare and Industrial Prosperity" and published by Vital Speeches of the Day in December, he said:

  The future of democracy is involved in the way in which private wealth and enterprise discharge their social obligations to workers, consumers and investors, all of whom have been exploited in the past. We must and will keep our economic system under the control of the people who live by and under it.

Read the entire address at our website here.

From the Jackson Center archives: Nominated Solicitor General--Robert H. Jackson, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's Anti-Trust Division, who was nominated by President Roosevelt today, January 27th, to the position of Solicitor General. Mr. Jackson's appointment is expected to arouse comment in the Senate although there seems to be little doubt of confirmation. Caption by 20th Century, Washington D.C., 1938. International News Photo, January 27, 1938.

This Month in Jackson History

March 5, 1938: Robert H. Jackson is named the U.S. Solicitor General.

March 8-22, 1946: The defense of Hermann Goering, the first defense to be presented at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Robert H. Jackson cross-examines Goering as well as other witnesses presented as part of his defense, including Goering’s military adjutant Karl Bodenschatz, former Field Marshall Erhard Milch, and Field Marshall Albert Kesselring.

You can see video and audio recordings of these and other Nuremberg Trial proceedings on our newly launched Nuremberg Trial video and audio resource page.  

March 30, 1954: Robert H. Jackson suffers a massive heart attack and is hospitalized.

Did you Know?

For the Jackson Center, the legacy of Justice Jackson goes beyond just retelling his story. Jackson Center programs begin as early as third grade, educating students to understand their growing role as members of society. Is liberty unlimited? Do laws apply to some, but not to all? The Jackson Center brings the most vibrant and dynamic performers from Seattle to NYC to animate history in ways that ignite the curious minds we seek to engage.

Will you support that part of our mission with a gift of $15, $25 or $50 today? Your gifts to us will yield the future you envision.