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Meet the Newest NLG Staff!

Kimmie David – Office Manager, NLG National Office (with assistant, Augustus Floof!) Kimmie David began her professional career as a collective member and co-owner at Bluestockings, a radical, feminist bookstore and event space in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She has since made magic out of thin air (and a lot of coffee) at […]

A Sanctuary Continent: Platform for Victims in Struggle against Impunity in the Americas

By Jose Luis Fuentes, Maria Elena Hernandez, Camilo Perez Bustillo and Judy Somberg, Task Force on the Americas The Mesoamerica Subcommittee of the NLG International Committee Task Force on the Americas (TFA) held a strategic planning session in Phoenix, AZ during the NLG International Committee Weekend. The Subcommittee decided to hold a ten-day delegation to […]

Free Ahed Tamimi and all Child Prisoners

Audrey Bomse, Co-chair, Palestine Subcommittee 15-year-old Mohammad Tamimi was hit point-blank in the face with a rubber-coated bullet fired by an Israeli occupation soldier on December 14, 2017, in Nabi Saleh, a small Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank. The boy had to undergo six hours of surgery and was placed in a medically induced […]

BEYOND BARS: 2018 (Poem)

By Cristobal “Cris” Bazan Kenedy, TX Scandal after scandal getting exposed Some men resign and others refuse Spewing forth their beautiful, two-faced prose But in life, win or lose, we all must choose Hate continues to trump the right with might I see no difference with the seperatists Inbreeding will not empower the white So […]

BEYOND BARS: Dallas and Baton Rouge, July 2016 (Poem)

By Gary Hicks Berkeley, CA (for all of the fallen, no questions asked for now) mental disorders a permanent feature of colonial warfare these days of spilt blood consigning terror to verse barely describes it time of clarity malcolm’s chickens home roosting specter of fanon like a boomerang what went around came around from now […]

BEYOND BARS: Liberation from a Racist Bigot Global Body Politic (Poem)

how many times have you attended private & public schools and felt like a fool learning theories of lies & mysteries brainwashed about a defacto history? how many times were you arrested by police criminalized by their confessions when you refused to acquiesce then prosecutors coerce questions with deterrents of the worst when you have […]

BEYOND BARS: Correctional Conceptual Medical Apathy: Is There Any Hope?

William A. Larson Licking, MO Prison healthcare, for the most part, is exemplified by the well-known caveat concerning closing the barn door after the horses have escaped. Due to contractual monetary rest raints, preventative medical care is nonexistent. Much too often, a prisoner’s health care needs are ignored—except to assist the prisoner die. In the […]

BEYOND BARS: The Long View of Prisoners’ Rights Litigation

By Jeremiah Phoenix Dannemora, NY Prisoners’ rights litigation is a challenging area of law to participate in, especially from the inside. In a very real way it’s a direct confrontation between prisoners and keepers of custody. Judicial review of prison conditions developed in part because hard-learned experience showed that ignoring significant issue scan lead to […]