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About the National Lawyers Guild
We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers
of America in an organization which shall function as an effective political and
social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be
regarded as more sacred than property interests., -- Preamble to the NLG
Constitution, 1937 as amended 1971
Founded in 1937, the National Lawyers Guild was the nation's first racially
integrated bar association. The first "Guild lawyers" supported the New Deal,
assisted the emerging industrial labor movement, and opposed racial segregation
in the American Bar Association and the larger society. The Guild was the first
national bar association to oppose the Death Penalty. During its more than 60
year history, the NLG has been an important part of the struggle of the American
people for real democracy, for economic and social justice, and against
oppression and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, immigration status,
class, gender or sexual orientation. Consistent with its commitment to ensuring
fairness and equality for all people, law students, non-lawyer legal workers and
inmate legal experts are full members. The Guild elected its first African-
American president in the early 1950s, its first female president in the 1960s
and its first legal worker president in 1996.
NLG // Milwaukee is a member of these coolitions
Justice Watch - www.geocities.com/justice_watch
This is a project initiated by the Milwaukee NLG following the unprecedented action by five members of the US Supreme Court in ordering an end to the recounting of ballets from the November 2000 presidential election.
Milwaukee Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba - www.cubawifriends.org
Cuba WI friends consist of both organizations and individuals which have joined to support normalization of relations to support Cuba and the ban on travel to Cuba.
To contact the National Office of the National Lawyers Guild, click here.
To go to the website of the National Office of the National Lawyers Guild, click here.
Contact:
Arthur Heitzer
606 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53203 Suite 1706
414.273.1040
aheitzer@igc.org
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414.273.1040 ::: aheitzer@igc.org ::: 606 W. Wisconsin Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53203 Suite 1706
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