Following the NLG’s 2015 adoption of a resolution in support of prison abolition, the NLG expanded its annual Student Week Against the Death Penalty to become the Student Week Against Mass Incarceration. Guild law students across the nation organized actions and events to bring attention to the problems inherent to mass incarceration in the United […]
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Q&A with Kris Hermes: RNCs, DNCs, and NSSEs—Oh My!
Drawing on first-hand experience and in-depth research, Former Mass Defense Coordinator and longtime Guild member Kris Hermes authored Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000 (PM Press, September 2015), which shows how the escalation of the National Security State was already being set in motion during the Republican National Convention protests (RNC) […]
A Community Solution to Cash Bail
Jonah Newman, The Chicago Reporter Truthout Wed, 01/20/2016 View the original piece When Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald in November, his bail was set at $1.5 million. Later that day, Van Dyke’s family posted the $150,000 necessary for him to wait out his […]
Challenge to Military Spying on Antiwar Activists Gains Support of Grassroots and Legal Groups
Legal brief supports plaintiffs’ Ninth Circuit appeal, urges jury trial to hold the Army accountable Contacts: Lead Plaintiffs’ Attorney Larry Hildes 360-599-4339 / LHildes@earthlink.net or Amicus co-author Heidi Boghosian 917-239-4999 / heidiboghosian@gmail.com SEATTLE—Several grassroots and legal organizations filed an “amicus” brief Wednesday in support of a widely watched lawsuit challenging the military’s domestic spying against […]
New Resource: NLG Scholars
The NLG National Office is excited to announce a new resource now available on our website called NLG Scholars — a list of our members who are law school professors, past NLG presidents, and practitioners with decades of experience. Please take a look and keep this list in mind when you need speakers for events […]
Joint statement on the sentencing of Khalida Jarrar
LPHR, Addameer and National Lawyers Guild joint statement on the appalling sentencing of leading Palestinian human rights defender, Ms Khalida Jarrar London, Ramallah and New York, 04 January 2016 – Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR), Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Addameer) and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) are deeply appalled at the […]
10 Ways the NLG Fought for the Movement in 2015
1. Defending Free Speech and the Right to Assemble The NLG trained hundreds of Legal Observers, while local Guild chapters provided key legal support to protesters in cities including St. Louis, Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Seattle, and Oakland. Dozens of members conducted “Know Your Rights” workshops and distributed our KYR handbooks to law […]
Challenging Imperialism
By Mwalimus S. Shakur, Corcoran, CA Within the confines of these concrete tombs, we prison activists have responded to fascist oppression by becoming jailhouse lawyers. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has buried us alive in the “SHU” (Security Housing Unit), where maintaining one’s sanity is the ultimate challenge. Locked in a tiny cell for […]
NLG-SF Bay Area’s Police & Prisons Committee Launches Prisoner Advocacy Network
By Caitlin Henry, NLG San Francisco Bay Area Chapter We are excited to launch the Prisoner Advocacy Network and share “Support From Outside The Walls” training materials! Prisoner Advocacy Network (PAN) On November 21, the NLG-SF Bay Area Chapter’s Police & Prisons Committee launched it’s Prisoner Advocacy Network (PAN). We will train California based volunteers […]
NLG Adopts Resolution Supporting Prison Abolition
“Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.” –Angela Y. Davis FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK—Following the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Law for the People Convention in October, NLG membership adopted a resolution calling for the dismantling and abolition of all prisons and of all aspects of systems and institutions that support, condone, create, […]
