As I sit here writing my last National Lawyers Guild president’s column, I am realizing just how little opportunity there has been to stop and think. It is just now in going over reports and articles we’ve written, coalitions we’ve been part of, and movements we’ve supported, that I am understanding how much the NLG […]
Issues: Guild Notes Vol. 46, No. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2021)
Law Enforcement Targets Water Protectors at Treaty People Gathering Against Line 3 Pipeline; About 200 Arrested
A version of the following was originally published as a press release at nlg.org issued June 9, 2021. On June 7th and 8th, the Treaty People Gathering as part of the Indigenous-led movement to stop Line 3, shut down work at an active Line 3 pump station near the Mississippi headwaters. Thousands of people from […]
NLG-LA and Advocacy Organizations Release Report Documenting LASD’s Targeted Harassment of Grieving Families
“No Justice, No Peace: The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Targeted Harassment of Grieving Families” is a new report issued by the National Lawyers Guild of Los Angeles, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, the Centro Community Service Organization, and the Check the Sheriff Coalition that details the […]
Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent Releases Report
by Kerry McLean, Commission of Inquiry Spokesperson and Steering Committee Member Following the police murder of George Floyd, the United States and later, other parts of the world, erupted into protest. Mr. Floyd’s death reignited public discourse on systemic racism and sparked one of the largest sustained mobilizations against racist police violence in history. Some […]
In Memoriam: Thane Tienson, NLG-PDX and NLG International Member
The following is reprinted with permission from The Astorian. It was written by Edward Stratton and first published on Feb 3, 2021. Thane Tienson, a prominent environmental, fisheries and human rights attorney from Astoria, died from a heart attack on Jan. 28. He was 74. Tienson is survived by his brother, John; son, Erik; daughter, […]
In Memoriam: Claude Cazzulino, Longtime NLG-Los Angeles Member
Claude Cazzulino, a resident of Pasadena for more than 33 years, passed away on February 26, 2021 during his daily neighborhood walk with the family’s standard poodles, Spoon and Vito. He was 66 years old. Claude was born in Queens, New York, the oldest son of Joseph and Clara Cazzulino, and grew up in Lloyd […]
In Memoriam: Martin “Marty” Kantrovitz, NLG-Massachusetts
Martin “Marty” Kantrovitz, age 79, passed away September 27, 2020 in Naples, Florida. He was born January 28, 1941, the second child of Gabriel and Vera Kantrovitz. Marty grew up in a Jewish section of Mattapan and went on to attend Roxbury Memorial, Northeastern University and later Boston University, where he studied law. He went […]
NLG-Seattle Establishes Living Systems Committee
by Members of the NLG-Seattle Living Systems Committee We know that the current legal system is riddled with structural issues. The question is: Where do we go from here? Are there ways to use legal tools to support cooperation, co-creation and relationship instead of capitalism, oppression and wealth consolidation? As of January 2021, NLG-Seattle has […]
NLG Member Michael Tigar Publishes Memoir, Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer’s Life in the Battle for Change
By the time he was 26, Michael Tigar was a legend in legal circles well before he would take on some of the highest-profile cases of his generation. In his first U.S. Supreme Court case—at the age of 28—Tigar won a unanimous victory that freed thousands of Vietnam War resisters from prison. Tigar also led […]
Let’s Get Stimulated: Reflections on Scholl et al. v. Mnuchin et al.
by Ursula Curiosa, F.K.A. Lindsey Krantz As I write this note to you all, my beloved Guildies, dozens of envelopes of flaming hot printed material make their ways through Evansville, IN, after being edited, printed, signed, sealed, stamped, then oh-so-hopefully dropped into the mail for delivery at the Vanderburgh County Jail: a concrete camp where […]