Whose Streets? OUR STREETS: A Very NLG Know Your Rights Training for Activists & Protestors

Whose Streets? OUR STREETS: A Very NLG Know Your Rights Training for Activists & Protestors

Whose Streets? OUR STREETS: A Very NLG Know Your Rights Training for Activists and Protestors

Thursday, September 14
5 - 7 PM ET / 2 - 4 PM PT (will be 1.5 hours max for training and a half hour for Q & A)
via Zoom
Live captioning provided

Event Description:
Join the National Lawyers Guild for a Know Your Rights training that is designed to teach activists, community members, legal workers and professionals,  lawyers and law students how to navigate police interactions during protests. The KYR will cover considerations for supporting marginalized groups and communities in the streets, and includes tips and tools people can utilize as  tactics when tensions become heightened. This training is intended for people with all levels of knowledge around first amendment rights and demonstrations.
 
Panelists:

Ría Thompson-Washington (she/they/elle) is an anti-racist activist, Afro-Latine, nonbinary Queer feminist living on unceded Nacotchtank land known as Washington, DC. They have spent the last twenty years organizing and training Black and Latine people working on various campaigns in the Labor movement to Occupy Wall Street, and more recently, providing legal support to the Movement for Black Lives. 

In 2015, Ría joined the National Lawyers Guild as a law student member. As a board member of the DC NLG chapter, Ría is a legal observer, coordinator, and trainer. Currently, they serve on the NLG’s Mass Defense Steering Committee, as senior co-chair of The United People of Color Caucus, and formerly as Executive Vice President of the Guild. In 2021, Ría was awarded Legal Worker of the Year by the National Lawyers Guild for their work training legal observers across the country during the Uprisings of 2020 that erupted after the murder of George Floyd and Hulu made a short documentary about Ría’s work as a legal support organizer and trainer. 

Ría founded Rialistic Strategies, a boutique consulting firm that develops creative and strategic campaign plans and provides organizing strategies with training curricula for base-building organizations and their members. Before starting their consulting firm, Ría worked at the Redress Movement (Digital Organizing Director), Center for Popular Democracy (Senior Manager, Voting Rights & Democracy Campaigns), Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Senior National Organizer, Voting Rights Project), and NAACP Legal Defense Fund (Paralegal/Litigation Assistant).

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