Paul Stanley Holdorf, Esq., NLG New Jersey Chapter In the wake of the September 9th work stoppage, a wide variety of prisoners’ rights violations emerged in large numbers across multiple jurisdictions. Prisoners from Washington State to Florida reported being subjected to excessive uses of force, segregation and disciplinary findings without due process, increases in security […]
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Unconventional: The Guild at the 2016 RNC & DNC
By King Downing, NLG Director of Mass Defense Movement legal work for the conventions was a big success, thanks to hard working chapter coordinators Jocelyn Rosnick and Jacqueline Greene, NLG Ohio, and Mary Catherine Roper and Michelle Grant, NLG Philadelphia. Members and staff from across the country also joined the efforts. Each city was divided […]
Inaugural NLG Weinglass Fellowship Triples Capacity for Chicago Community Bond Fund
By Max Suchan, NLG Chicago From August through October 2016, Chicago NLG member Max Suchan received the first annual NLG Weinglass Fellowship to work full time for the Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF). This grant, named after renowned criminal defense attorney and constitutional law advocate Leonard Weinglass and made possible from a generous bequest from […]
Moving Beyond Brock Turner: Focusing on Mass Incarceration
By Audrey Bomse, Sharlyn Grace, and the Mass Incarceration Committee of the NLG In January 2015, Brock Turner sexually assaulted an unconscious woman behind a dumpster outside a Stanford University frat party. He was convicted of felony sexual assault and received six months in jail—far less than the 14 year maximum. Outrage at Turner’s short […]
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 […]
Crisis in Venezuela: A Role in the Guild?
By Susan Scott, NLG Task Force on the Americas Guild members knowledgeable about the situation in Venezuela are forming a working group to provide analysis for media and solidarity groups on issues relating to Venezuela’s current constitutional crisis. The Guild has sent a dozen delegations to Venezuela since 2006, most serving as international “acompañantes” for […]
NLG Mobilizes Delegation to Honduras to Investigate the Murder of Berta Cáceres
By Mark Sullivan, NLG Task Force on the Americas Indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres of Honduras was murdered in her home late on March 2, 2016. Cáceres was a fierce inspirational force known for her work for indigenous rights, environmental struggles, social and economic justice, feminism and more. As a result of her leadership in […]
President’s Column: Gearing Up for the 2016 #Law4thePeople Convention
By Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan As I write this column, I have just finished collecting signatures for petitions and participating in a monthly rally to demand the release of Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera, who has just entered his 35th year in prison. At a rally in New York City’s Lower East Side, […]
If Not Now, When? LOing as Jewish Activists Say ‘Enough’ to Israeli Occupation
By Jill Rudge, Brooklyn Law School NLG, ’16 I have never felt more moved by my Jewish heritage than I was this spring while legal observing a group of IfNotNow activists protest American Jewish institutional support for the ongoing Israeli occupation. IfNotNow is a movement for freedom and dignity for all Israelis and Palestinians, whose […]
Students Revive SULC NLG Chapter, Finalist for Best Student Org. Award by HBCU
By SULC NLG Chapter, 2015-2016 The Southern University Law Center’s NLG Chapter (SULC NLG) has enjoyed a year of bold initiatives, meaningful engagement, and productive planning. Focusing on timely and relevant issues of social importance, the SULC NLG has provided the Law Center and the greater Baton Rouge community resources and programming upon which relationships […]