At the April 2015 National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, the NEC appointed a subcommittee to develop food justice guidelines for the national Law for the People Convention to address food justice issues intersectionally. The subcommittee created the guidelines below and were approved by the Guild’s Executive Council (EC). These guidelines currently only pertain to the […]
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Civil Rights Groups Tell Gov. Pence: Don’t Stifle Free Speech; Nonviolent Support for BDS to Achieve Equality and Justice for Palestinians is Not Anti-Semitism
Contact: Bryan Bullock: attybullock@yahoo.com Bill V. Mullen: bill.mullen2@gmail.com Mark Sniderman: marksniderman@gmail.com L. Michael Spath: lmspath@msn.com INDIANAPOLIS—A broad coalition of Indiana and national civil rights organizations have asked Indiana Governor Mike Pence to repudiate a non-binding Indiana legislative resolution that brands boycott, divestment, and sanctions (“BDS”) tactics to achieve equality and justice for Palestinians as “anti-Jewish.” […]
NLG-Madison Chapter Statement on the Exoneration of Officer who Killed 19-Year-Old Tony Robinson
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Anthony Prince, NLG-Madison 608-233-7355 or 510-301-1472 “We don’t want to just stop at Black Lives Matter…” -Turin Carter, uncle of Tony Robinson on the decision not to indict Madison policeman Matt Kenny Protests continue and 28 people […]
NLG Files Urgent Appeal Request to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Citing Life-Threatening Denial of Medical Care to Mumia Abu-Jamal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tasha Moro, Communications Director communications@nlg.org | 212-679-5100, ext. 15 NEW YORK— Members of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Heidi Boghosian and Natsu Saito, with Kathleen Cleaver of the Human Rights Research Fund, today delivered an Urgent Appeal Request on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal to Juan Méndez, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on […]
NLG Queer Caucus Opposes Baltimore PD’s Treatment of Trans Woman Held in Men’s Prison
kt Crossman, Queer Caucus Chair queercaucus@nlg.org BALTIMORE—The Baltimore police department has much to answer for: the events of the last few weeks have drawn our attention to this, from the callous murder of Freddie Gray to the hundreds of people arrested protesting his murder who were then held for an unconstitutional length of time (47 […]
NLG Calls on President Obama to Withdraw Executive Order Declaring Venezuela National Security Threat
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tasha Moro, Communications Director communications@nlg.org | 212-679-5100, ext. 15 NEW YORK—On March 8, 2015, President Obama issued Executive Order (EO) 13692, which declared a national emergency, calling Venezuela “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” and imposed sanctions on several Venezuelan officials. […]
NLG Calls on President Obama to Withdraw Executive Order Declaring Venezuela National Security Threat
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tasha Moro, Communications Director communications@nlg.org | 212-679-5100, ext. 15 NEW YORK—On March 8, 2015, President Obama issued Executive Order (EO) 13692, which declared a national emergency, calling Venezuela “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” and imposed sanctions on several Venezuelan officials. […]
[ACTION ALERT] Legal Support Needed for Freddie Gray Actions in Baltimore
The National Lawyers Guild stands in solidarity with Baltimore protesters as they call for justice for Freddie Gray’s brutal murder by the police. The NLG National Office has been working with lawyers and organizers on the ground to provide legal support for this weeks ongoing actions. Our mass defense coordinator, Abi Hassen will be joining […]
NLG Demands Reinstatement of New Jersey Teacher Marylin Zuniga, Suspended after Students Sent Get-Well Cards to Political Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: communications@nlg.org | 212-679-5100 NLG-NYC Chapter Member Alan Levine Representing Zuniga NEW YORK—The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) stands with Marylin Zuniga, the third grade teacher at Forest Street Elementary School in Orange, NJ, who was suspended after her students wrote “get well” cards to the critically ill political prisoner and celebrated scholar, […]
Incorporating International Law into Everyday Practice
In the past several years, legal aid, public defense and public interest attorneys have integrated human rights principles rooted in international law into the struggles of the individuals and community organizations they represent. On December 12, 2014, the Portland chapter of the National Lawyers Guild presented a CLE program on Human Rights in the […]
