The National Lawyers Guild and its International Committee condemn the escalation of federal repression. The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil demonstrates a dangerous increase in both the criminalization of protest in the United States and the targeting of immigrants. It is also a frightening evolution in the ongoing assault against the movement of students […]
On January 29th, 2025, former President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order that poses a direct and dangerous threat to university students and academic workers across the country. This order targets those engaged in protests or speech critical of Israeli settler colonialism and genocide, falsely equating these critiques with antisemitism and threatening First Amendment and […]
For the 2025 Week of Abolition (March 3-7), NLG law school chapters organized 100+ events and actions related to the abolition of prisons and police. This year, NLG students focused on building alternatives in our everyday lives, relationships, and institutions, guided by these words by abolitionist organizer and thinker Ruth Wilson Gilmore: “Abolition is not absence, […]
In response to the ongoing cruel and unconstitutional raids on immigrants and their communities by the Trump administration, NLG law student chapters are organizing to stop recruitment efforts at their law schools by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). In late January, New York […]
In collaboration with Southern Coalition for Social Justice and National Immigration Project, the NLG’s Mass Defense Program has created a new KYR for people advocating with and supporting non-U.S. citizens. The new Trump administration has already stated its intent to use laws to prosecute “immigration-related violations,” which can extend to individuals who help and advocate […]
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) condemns Columbia University’s forced retirement of former NLG Executive Director, Katherine Franke. This response is only one of the many attacks Columbia University has lobbied against anyone daring to speak out against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Professor Franke is a true embodiment of the NLG’s spirit and fight of putting […]
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) welcomes the announcement of a ceasefire in the occupied territory of Gaza. This is the least that could happen, given Israel’s recent escalation of their 76-year, ongoing, genocidal campaign against Palestinians. It comes at a time when the death toll has exceeded 46,000 people, with reports that this number is […]
On December 16, 2024, Omali Yeshitela, Jesse Nevel, and Penny Hess, known as the Uhuru 3, were sentenced to three years’ probation and three hundred hours of community service, as their crowd of supporters outside chanted: “Not one day [in jail]”. The trial of Uhuru 3 is one of the most important First Amendment cases […]
The bill is a blatant attempt of the U.S. empire to further repress protesters, dissenters, and those that oppose the federal government’s suppression of free speech. The bill is a reaction to years of powerful boycott, divestment, and sanctions movements; decentralized mass protests; college campus encampments; and successful direct actions against the ongoing genocide of […]
