By Azadeh Shahshahani June 2014 – The Israeli security agent who called me into the room at the border crossing had pulled up on her computer screen an NLG statement on the launch of Palestine Solidarity Legal Support. She had also learned that the NLG has a Palestine Subcommittee with a clear stance in support […]
Issues: Guild Notes Vol. 39, No. 2 (Summer/Fall 2014)
33-Day Walk for Oscar López Successful
By Alberto Rodríguez for the Puerto Rico Subcommittee May 2014 was an exciting and historic month in the three-decade long campaign to free Oscar López Rivera. Oscar is the longest held Puerto Rican political prisoner convicted in U.S. federal court for seditious conspiracy for his commitment to Puerto Rican independence. Guild members in New York […]
Fighting Mass Incarceration at the Board of Parole
By Nora Carroll To the casual observer, opponents of mass incarceration are ubiquitous. The Justice Department is inviting nonviolent drug offenders to apply for clemency, there have been congressional hearings on solitary confinement, and everyone is talking about the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. But for those who envision a world without prisons, […]
In Memoriam: Rob Doyle (1942-2014)
Rob Doyle, a founding member of the (reestablished) Massachusetts Chapter of the NLG in the late ‘60s, died on May 1, 2014. In the ‘70s he worked with the Wounded Knee Legal Defense Project and was an active member his chapter throughout his career. This is a selection of a remembrance of him delivered at […]
In Memoriam: Jennie Rhine (1940-2014)
Longtime Guild-member Jennie Rhine passed away early morning on May 11, 2014. A graduate of UC Hastings School of Law, Jennie graduated first in her class of 1969. She went on to take a number of activist cases and to organize with the National Lawyers Guild. After some years in private practice, she was elected […]
NLG Calls for US to Cease Plans to Detain and Deport Thousands of Child Refugees to Central America
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) objects to the President’s decision to detain and expedite deportations of thousands of children from fleeing persecution and violence in Central America. The NLG also opposes any efforts by Congress to roll back critical human rights protections – such as the right of an unaccompanied minor to see an immigration […]