Look for the
TUPOCC Table at the Convention to find more information about these
events and other activities
TUPOCC
Organizing Meeting (Elections
and Admin) Friday, Oct. 17, 2008, 7:30 - 9:00pm
At the convention hotel
TUPOCC Party!
Fri., Oct. 17, 2008, after 9:00pm...
Hosted by Detroit Summer
TUPOCC Skills
Training:
Study and Struggle: Organizing across generational lines
Sat., Oct. 18, 2008, 9:00am - 12 noon
TUPOCC SKILLS TRAINING WORKSHOP Study and
Struggle: Organizing across generational lines Saturday
October 18, 2008, 9:00am-12:00pm
"And
here in this country, it has been my own observation that when you get
into a conversation on racism and discrimination and segregation, you
will find young people more incensed over it, they feel more filled
with an urge to eliminate it." --Malcolm X
Fact is our public schools are looking more like jails and their
jails and prisons are capturing more of our young people.
Fact is
youth organizing and older people of color having their back can change
these conditions. Join us as we welcome youth
organizers from
Detroit Summer and veteran anti-racist organizer Ron Scott to lead our
TUPOCC skill-building session addressing inter-generational politics
and power. Our presenters have tackled issues of
criminalization
of youth, militarization of schools, the school to prison pipeline, and
police brutality head-on and will share their knowledge from first hand
experience in effective youth and inter-generational
organizing. The
presentation will provide ways for radical lawyers, legal worker and
law students (us) to engage in these struggles, and win!
Detroit Summer
is a
multi-racial, inter-generational collective in Detroit, working to
transform ourselves and our communities by confronting the problems we
face with creativity and critical thinking.
Ron Scott
is a Co-Founder
of the Detroit Branch of the Black Panther Party; is a member of the
Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality; the Detroit Council of
Elders; and the National Lawyers Guild. He is an Emmy
Award-winning
producer who has completed documentary projects on current affairs,
cultural icons, entertainment, and politics in North American the
Caribbean. More
convention events organized by TUPOCCers, or at the very least of
interest to TUPOCCers....
Grace
Lee Boggs Keynote Speech Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008, 6:45pm
Friday
Major Panels
Displacement and Occupation of Our Inner
Cities: Understanding Post-Fascist Amerikkka
Legal and Political Strategies to Support the
Liberation of Palestine
November 2 , 2007 - Friday
7:30 pm - Criminal Injustice: The Case of the Jena 6;
Feature Documentary Premiere from Big Noise,
Order a copy of video clips on Democracy Now
Presentation by King Downing, National Coordinator, ACLU
Campaign Against Racial Profiling
Georgetown University Law Center, McDonough 206, 600 New
Jersey Ave., Washington, DC
For more information contact Kerry McLean - kerrymclean@gmail.com http://www.nlg.org/membership/nlgbylaws.pdf Click for FLYER
September 20 - Justice in Jena
Law
for the People Convention 2007 in Washington, DC , Oct. 31- Nov. 4 2007
HONOREES: Women Presidents of the Guild
Keynote
Speaker: John Conyers Major Panels
include: The
War On Drugs, the War on Gangs, the War on Communities of Color
; A Tale of Two Cities: the Intersection of Race and Class
Oppression in the District of Columbia
Past
Press
Releases
September
20 Rally in Jena Endorsed by The United People of Color Caucus of the
National Lawyers Guild, Sept. 13, 2007
TUPOCC of the NLG endorses the planned rally
in Jena, Louisiana on
September 20 in support of the six black high school students who have
come to be known as the "Jena 6." The rally takes place on the
sentencing date of Mychal Bell, one of the Jena 6. "It is still the Jim
Crow era in Jena," said Kerry McLean, TUPOCC member, and member of the
NLG national executive board. "The constitutional rights and human
rights of these boys have been flagrantly violated. TUPOCC stands in
solidarity with the Jena 6, and demands justice."... more
Letter
to Texas Governor Richard Perry, Re: Clemency for Kenneth Foster,
Aug. 29, 2007
Dear Governor Perry, The National Lawyers
Guild is writing to urge you
to grant clemency to Kenneth Foster, a man scheduled to be executed by
your state tomorrow, August 30. We also ask that you impose
an
indefinite state of execution at least until a fully comprehensive
examination of the cuase of stark racial and geographic disparities in
the administration of the death penalty is review and published. ...
more
Austin,
TX. 2006 NLG Law for the People Convention. ,Oct 18-22,
2006
TUPOCC Skills-building and Unity Workshop.
. . And Justice for All. Organizing and Coalition Building in
Communities of Color: Confronting the Criminal (In)Justice System
Major
Panels - "Occupation
and Resistance in Palestine and Iraq",
"The New Civil Rights Movement: Street Demonstrations in Support of
Immigrant Rights"
Workshops - "Louder Than a Bomb, the Hip-Hop Movement:
Aggression
and Oppression", "Zionism & Racism", and more.
Stipends - For Student/Recent Grads/Legal Workers of Color , here. Southern brothers
and sisters encouraged.
NLG Endorses National Actions - Provided Legal Support - Press
Release, Aug. 8, 2006, National
March on Washington Defend the People of Palestine and
Lebanon! Stop the U.S.-Israeli War!
August 12 Report ANSWER Coalition,
Nat'l Council of Arab Americans & Muslim American Society
Freedom Foundation
- June 25, 2006, TUPOCC in Baltimore organized and co-sponsored a
counter-demonstration to protest U.S.-Israeli aggression against
Palestine and Lebanon, and protest a demonstration organized
by
the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Baltimore Board of
Rabbis, and the Baltimore Zionist District.
·NLG
Supports
May 1 Immigration Actions - press release, April 30, 2006,NLG
deploys legal observers and provides direct legal support for students
in walkouts and harrassed workers.
· TUPOCC-SF Happy Hour, April
22,
2006 - 5pm,
On ABA Diversity Guidelines and Problem
with Use of LSAT
@ Latin American Club, 3286 22nd Street (btwn Mission and Valenica) San
Francsico, CA
·
Statement
on Anti-Immigrant Legislation - NLG Student/TUPOCC, Naitonal
Day of Action for Immigrant Rights - April 10, 2006 · www.schoolwalkouts.info
(en espanol)
Legal defense/legal information on student rights in walkouts from the
Los Angeles chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. Also "For the Students
2006" Committee, Los Angeles March
25-26, 2006
NLG
Midwest Conference "Rising to the Challenge:
Pursuing Justice in Dangerous Times" at Chicago-Kent College of Law,
Illinois Institute of Technology contact: nlgchicago@yahoo.com
http://www.nlg.org/membership/nlgbylaws.pdf