Member News Digest, Jan. 22, 2021
…King, Jr. The hearings come to a close on February 6, 2021. Please visit the website of the commission at https://inquirycommission.org/ to see the hearing schedule, to review the case…
…King, Jr. The hearings come to a close on February 6, 2021. Please visit the website of the commission at https://inquirycommission.org/ to see the hearing schedule, to review the case…
…no longer active include: Committee for Democratic Communications Next Generation Committee Political Prisoner Support Committee Anti-Sexism Committee Committee on Corporations and Human Rights Litigation Committee If you’re interested in reviving…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: communications@nlg.org Last week’s white supremacist coup attempt facilitated by law enforcement makes clear that the path forward requires a serious reckoning with the conditions that caused…
…Caucus (TUPOCC), Anti-Racism Committee (ARC), National Executive Committee (NEC), and other committees and chapters of the Guild as well as the independent working group of BIPOC members who originally came…
…the Guild for appropriate action. As of last week, we had compiled evidence, drafted recommendations, begun outreach to members of various committees who could carry some of this work, and…
…indirectly harmed—formed to gather information and determine how to address this with intentionality. Last month, this group asked the Anti-Racism Committee (ARC)—a committee designed to help address structural and interpersonal…
…policing Check out this local op-ed by Emilio De Torre, a member of the steering committee for the Mass Defense Committee and executive director of the Milwaukee Turners. “We need…
…pieces analyzing the policing of social movements, the role of police in maintaining current power dynamics, and alternatives to policing from community power to defunding to abolition. The goal of…
…States Africa Command, or AFRICOM, was established in 2007. The United States government claimed that part of AFRICOM’s mission was to promote peace and security in Africa. Yet in the…
…was inspired to become a lawyer when I was teaching in Brooklyn, New York, and lived through the attacks of 9/11. After seeing the community come together in a beautiful…