By Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, NLG President October 30, 2017—These past few months have wreaked havoc on our lives and planet, leaving us to figure out how to respond as ethical citizens and lawyers to some of the most challenging moral dilemmas of our time. I write from Puerto Rico, where the unholy convergence of […]
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2017 Weinglass Fellow Emily Posner to Fight Toxic Prisons
We’re thrilled to announce the 2017 Weinglass Fellowship recipient! Emily Posner will be collaborating with the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons and the Abolitionist Law Center to work on a strategic campaign to exhaust federal inmate’s administrative remedies in an effort to challenge the Bureau of Prison’s proposal to build a new maximum security prison […]
Water Is Life: Wayne State NLG Supports the Standing Rock Water Protectors
By Henry Schneider, WSU NLG Facilitator Beginning in October 2016, the Wayne State University Chapter of the NLG began collecting donations for the Sacred Stone Camp and the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC). In January 2017, the WSU NLG organized a panel that would (1) orient the audience to the legal claims the Standing Rock […]
Updates from the #NoDAPL Movement at Standing Rock
By WPLC Members and Staff The Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC) is the on-the-ground legal team working in partnership with the NLG to provide representation for Water Protectors engaged in resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) at Standing Rock. WPLC provides emergency legal support on a daily basis, is coordinating the criminal defense effort […]
President’s Column: Rise Up for Standing Rock
By Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan Standing firm in their sacred and sovereign land, the ongoing civil disobedience and protests by the Water Protectors of Oceti Sakowin Oyate (the Great Sioux Nation) in North Dakota are nothing short of inspiring. Standing Rock has been standing for all of us as they protest the construction of the […]