Since last summer, I have been volunteering as a legal researcher with the Legal Education and Action Fund, a non-profit which intervenes in cases where women's interests are at stake. An 'intervenor' is a 3rd party which asks the court if it can submit a legal argument alongside the original two parties. LEAF's mandate is to ensure women's substantive equality and the work they do is really worthwhile to me because it is done at a macro level--decisions from the court (including the Supreme Court) affect society as a whole. It is shaping law, basically, and I wish there were ten more LEAFs in Vancouver.
Anyway, this morning was their annual fundraising breakfast and I was up at 4 am to volunteer. My sweet, wonderful husband drove me to the hotel where the event was held before 5 A.M. He is just the best. The breakfast was a lot of work. But having 800 lawyers and politicians in the same room talking about universal child care, child support, pay equality and domestic violence protection was pretty great. I know change comes slowly. I am so impatient! But bit by bit, we are increasing privacy protections, establishing equality, pioneering quality childcare outside the home. We are making the world a more liveable place, one case at a time.
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