Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa, the latest film by Abby Ginzberg, Bay Area filmmaker and former national NLG leader, topped off a year of worldwide screenings and rave reviews by receiving a Peabody Award, one of the highest honors in documentary film and public affairs programming. Narrated by Alfre Woodard, Soft […]
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Guild Members Help Asylum Seekers in Dilley, TX
By Isabella Fernandez, Rodrigo Juarez, and Juliann Peebles, NLG Portland Chapter Following the summer of 2014, the Obama Administration contracted two for-profit prison corporations, CCA and GEO Group, Inc. to open and operate detention centers that detain family units of women and children, mostly asylum seekers from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. These countries have […]
The Perfect Time to Go Solo
By Larry Redmond and Priscilla Orta, NLG Solo Caucus At October’s NLG Convention in Oakland, the Solo Caucus met for the first time in–well, who knows how long! But one thing was clear: the energy was high, and the commitment to continue the Caucus was absolute. During the ensuing conversation, it became clear that the […]
NLG-SF Bay Area’s Police & Prisons Committee Launches Prisoner Advocacy Network
By Caitlin Henry, NLG San Francisco Bay Area Chapter We are excited to launch the Prisoner Advocacy Network and share “Support From Outside The Walls” training materials! Prisoner Advocacy Network (PAN) On November 21, the NLG-SF Bay Area Chapter’s Police & Prisons Committee launched it’s Prisoner Advocacy Network (PAN). We will train California based volunteers […]
BEYOND BARS: Mass Incarceration: Transforming an Unconstitutional System
By Bro. Brad Broussard Beeville, TX Under the Thirteenth Amendment, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction” (emphasis added). The word ‘except’ here indicates that slavery and involuntary servitude […]
BEYOND BARS: Challenging Imperialism
By Mwalimus S. Shakur Corcoran, CA Within the confines of these concrete tombs, we prison activists have responded to fascist oppression by becoming jailhouse lawyers. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) havsburied us alive in the “SHU” (Security Housing Unit), where maintaining one’s sanity is the ultimate challenge. Locked in a tiny cell for […]
BEYOND BARS: The Concrete Empire
By Carl H. Harrison Susanville, CA In the 1980s, California began a prison and jail-building boom. Concrete jails and prisons popped up all over the state, while laws were quickly changed to make it easier to lock people up. These facilities quickly filled up and people had to join gangs within the facilities in order […]
NLG-NYC Chapter Leads Cuba Delegation
By Bina Ahmad, Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, and Elena L. Cohen, NLG-NYC Cuba Delegation Organizers Continuing the Guild’s long history of solidarity work with the country, the NLG-NYC Chapter led a highly successful delegation to Cuba this past September. Twelve delegates spent seven days on the Island, meeting with officials, criminal and civil judges, attorneys, […]
People’s Tribunals Deliver Justice for Victims of Human Rights Violations
By Azadeh Shahshahani, NLG President For three powerful days, July 16-18, I had the honor of participating as a member of the jury in the International Peoples Tribunal (IPT) on crimes against the Filipino people by President Benigno S. Aquino and the U.S. Government, as represented by President Barack Obama. Convened by human rights defenders, […]
Chicago Activists Obtain Reparations for Chicago Police Torture Survivors
By Joey Mogul, NLG Chicago The City of Chicago made history on Wednesday May 6 when it passed legislation providing reparations to survivors of racially motivated police torture committed by infamous former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and detectives under his command from 1972 to 1991. It represents a bold break with the status quo, […]