Local to Global Justice

Local to Global Justice is a volunteer organization based in Tempe, Arizona, United States. It sponsors events dealing with social justice issues, mostly held on and around the Arizona State University Tempe campus. The group is a registered ASU student organization, but membership is not limited to students at the university.

Activities

Every year since 2002 the group has organized the Local to Global Justice Teach-in at the ASU Tempe campus. The free event is a social forum featuring nationally recognized speakers, workshops by local grassroots organizations, music, and food. The speakers and workshops at the Teach-in have dealt with a wide variety of topics, including civil rights, environmental justice, workers' rights, globalization, and immigration.
Well-known speakers at past events have included Starhawk, Ward Churchill, Rod Coronado, Jonathan Schell, Frances Moore Lappé, Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia, Michael Alewitz and Tom Hayden.