Media Contacts: Stanley Holdorf, PLAN@nlg.org and Aderson Francois, Aderson.Francois@georgetown.edu The DE-NJ NLG Prisoners’ Legal Advocacy Network (PLAN) has launched a three-year collaborative initiative with the Georgetown Law Civil Rights Clinic to challenge unconstitutional conditions of confinement in the aftermath of the 2018 national prison strike. INITIATIVE PARTNERS: DE-NJ NLG Prisoners’ Legal Advocacy Network (PLAN) & […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 10, 2019 Contact: communications@nlg.org NEW YORK—The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) calls for the immediate release of human rights defenders Cristóbal Sánchez, founder of the Cultura Migrante collective, and Irineo Mujica, director of Pueblo Sin Fronteras (PSF), following their June 5 arrests by Mexican officials on trumped-up human trafficking charges. These politically […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 4, 2019 Contact: communications@nlg.org NEW YORK—The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is in solidarity with the migrants’ rights group Pueblo Sin Fronteras (PSF), following an arson attack targeting their director, Irineo Mujica, yesterday. Last month, the NLG International Committee sent a delegation to Tijuana, Mexico to document human rights abuses and violations […]
The DE-NJ NLG calls on Assembly Speaker Coughlin to post the bills A4743/S3229 for a vote now to expand access to driver’s licenses to all qualified NJ residents. The Delaware-New Jersey NLG has joined forces with almost 80 community, faith, labor, social service, and advocacy organizations to urge NJ lawmakers to expand access to driver’s […]
Tuesday, April 9 – 5 PM (ET) / 2 PM (PT) UPDATE -4/11/19: Watch the recording of the full webinar! While prison populations have declined in recent years, they remain enormous, and immigration detention has ballooned. Also, in many areas where prison populations have decreased the most, racial disparities have worsened. Webinar faculty will talk […]
By Traci Yoder, NLG Director of Research and Education NOTE: In 2018, NLG membership voted to expand our mission statement of “human rights over property interests” to include the rights of ecosystems. This update reflects the Guild’s historical support for environmental justice, and our ongoing dedication to challenging the repression environmental movements experience from both […]
(Photo: A portion of the documents leaked to NBC San Diego listing targeted journalists, activists, and an attorney.) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: communications@nlg.org TIJUANA, Mexico—Leaked US-Mexican government documents revealed both governments are maintaining a secret database targeting at least 59 journalists, activists, and an attorney as part of an intelligence-gathering mission under “Operation Secure Line,” […]
Contact: newjersey@nlg.org As New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s March 5th FY2020 Budget Address approaches, the Delaware-New Jersey chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) has joined more than 30 other law organizations, legal experts, and faith and labor leaders in a letter urging him to fully fund a universal representation program that provides appointed counsel […]
We are publishing this piece as part of the NLG annual student Week Against Mass Incarceration. In 2019, we are highlighting the connections between the exponential increase of incarcerated people and the 40-year War on Drugs. By Lisa Drapkin, NLG Director of Membership The cultural narrative around drug use in the US is constantly shifting, […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kira Kelley, Esq., NLG VT Chairperson vermont@nlg.org / 802-683-4086 NLG VT Members Represent Citizens in Lawsuit Against City of Burlington to Stop Demolition of City Hall Park Burlington, VT— Eight Burlington residents represented by attorneys with the Vermont Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) filed a lawsuit yesterday against the […]
