Challenging Injustice. Creating Solutions. Then and Now.
The Romero Institute combines public education, grassroots organizing, policy initiation and litigation to expose sources of injustice and implement life-sustaining solutions. Right now, climate change is the single greatest threat to our human family, and that's why we're drafting a Green New Deal for California. Together, we can eliminate our carbon footprint by 2035 and set a bar for others to follow.
Partnering with the Lakota to protect sacred lands from threats like the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), secure their rights to autonomy and self-determination, and win the return of children seized by South Dakota’s Department of Social Services.
Through public education and grassroots organizing, we build the people power necessary to implement big, community-wide solutions to the climate crisis.
Our co-founders have led many of the most significant litigation, investigation, public education, and grassroots organizing efforts that have defined social justice for over 50 years.
Under a new application of the provisions of the Federal Racketeer Influenced and Criminal Organizations Act (RICO), Christic brought charges against and exposed 29 people involved with the Iran-Contra Affair. (Avirgan v. Hull, et al)
The first vindicating argument in the American Sanctuary Movement came from Christic’s defense of Catholic workers who provided sanctuary for refugees seeking political asylum. (U.S. v. Stacey Lynn Merkt, et al.)
When Reactor 2 at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, suffered a partial meltdown on March 28, 1979, the Christic Institute legal team was called in to help oversee the legal proceedings and represent victims of the disaster.
