University of Oregon NLG
Events:
- Mon. 3/2 – Abolitionist Book Club – Joel Sati article on privacy, immigration, enforcement, and borders; also handing out a book about ICE and abolition
- collab with immigrant law student association
- Tues. 3/3 – Intro to Abolition Workshop
- collab w/ immigrant student association
- Wed. 3/4 – Implicit Bias Training; also a “Melting I.C.E. Cream Social”
- Collab with Latin(x), immigrant, and Native American law student associations
- Thurs. 3/5 – Intentional Study Hall; also I.C.E. KYR Training
- Collab with Immigration student association and the CLDC
- Sat. 3/7 – Direct Action Against ICE – a protest!
- Collab with Latin(x), immigrant, and Native American law student associations
University of North Carolina NLG
Events: (lunch provided every day)
- Mon. 3/2 – Abolish Solitary Confinement – Replica solitary confinement cell in the morning & a speaker event over lunch.
- Collab with Anti Death Penalty Project
- Tues. 3/3 – Family Defense in the ICE Age
- Speaker from the Carolina Parent Defenders
- Wed. 3/4 – Local Mutual Aid – Panel of local mutual aid groups in Chapel Hill/Carrboro/the NC Triangle
- Featuring mutual aid groups CJAC, RUMAH, and MatchLocal
- Thurs. 3/5 – Fourth Amendment Workplace Training by Siembra NC
- Collab with ILA and ACS
Chicago-Kent NLG
Events:
- Tues. 3/3 – Alternative Legal Research Workshop
- Both Lexis and Westlaw have ongoing contracts to share data with ICE. Come learn more about how they contribute to ICE’s abuse and how you can conduct legal research outside of these sites.
- Ft. Librarian Shannon Conder
- Wed. 3/4 – CHI vs. ICE: In Court and On The Streets
- Come learn about NLG legal observers’/lawyers’ and puño’s efforts against ICE in Chicago. Panel discussion (food provided)
- Stay tuned for mutual aid fundraiser – proceeds to be donated to local organizing against ICE.
University of Arizona NLG
Events:
- Mon. 3/2 – Happy Hour in Solidarity with Prairieland Defendants
- Learn about the Prairieland cases and discuss ways to show solidarity to the defendants & strategies for resisting federal repression.
- Tues. 3/3 – The Case for Open Borders – speaker John Washington, lunch provided
- Open Border and Anti-Detention Politics in the age of Trump II. Washington will discuss his research and reporting into how communities have been pushing back against the immigration enforcement regime, border imperialism, and the recent crackdown in American streets.
- Wed. 3/4 – On Bail, Abolition & Pre-Trial Freedom – speaker Tiera Rainey, lunch provided
- A discussion about abolition and the fight for pre-trial freedom from the former executive director of the Tucson Bail Fund.
- Thurs. 3/5 – Legal Observer Training
University of Illinois Chicago
Events:
- Mon. 3/2 – Abolition 101
- Tues. 3/3 – Broadview Lawyers & Legal Observer Panel
- Wed. 3/4 – ICE OUT Training with Pilson Puño
- Thurs. 3/5 – MELT THE ICE – Bail Fund Bake Sale
New York Law School NLG
Events:
- Mon. 3/2 – Who Profits from ICE Detention and Surveillance?
- Tues. 3/3 – Know Your Rights & Bystander Training
- Thurs. 3/5 – Anti-Colonial Book Club Meeting
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
- https://www.instagram.com/p/DVRZMGJif8T/
- Fri. 3/6 – Asylum & Immigration Conference
University of Minnesota NLG
Events:
- Wed. 3/4 – Week of Abolition Job Panel
- Come chat with NLG attorneys and alum from a variety of practice areas
- https://www.instagram.com/p/DUzM32QjBE2/?img_index=1
- Wed. 3/4 – Virtual Legal Observer Training
Drexel University Law NLG
Events:
- Mon. 3/2 – Pardon Me Film Screening with filmmaker Shuja Moore
- What does it take to get a pardon in PA?
- https://www.instagram.com/p/DVMXRmrEVli/
- Mon. 3/2 – Abolishing the Fourth Amendment: Have We? – Dean Donald F. Tibbs
Arizona State University NLG
https://www.instagram.com/nlgasulaw
Events:
- Mon. 3/2 – Abolition Starts Here: Tracing the History of ICE – Speaker Prof. David Lopez, lunch provided
- Faculty-led discussion examining the origins of ICE, its expansion post-9/11, and the legal frameworks that sustain it today.
- Tues. 3/3 – Abolish ICE means Abolition the Police: Prisons, Detention and the Surveillance State – lunch provided
- Will Knight (National Homelessness Law Center)
- Hannah Robinson (Black Lives Matter PHX Metro)
- Wed. 3/4 – On the Ground and in the Courtroom: Lawyers and Organizing Through Movements – Ybarra Maldonado
- Bridging courtroom advocacy and grassroots organizing
- Legal defense in immigrant justice movements
- The role of lawyers in abolitionist spaces
- Building community-centered legal strategies
- Thurs. 3/5 – What We Do, What We Need: A Presentation from Semillas for Future Lawyers, Building Community Power and Legal Support – lunch provided
- Building community power beyond the courtroom
- What communities need from future lawyers
- Ethical, responsive legal support
- Pathways for student involvement
Fordham Law NLG
Events:
- Mon. 3/2 – From Arraignments to ICE: Immigration Consequences in Criminal Cases with Fordham Law Defenders
- Panel of immigration attorneys discussing how they mitigate deportation risks in their career
- Tues. 3/3 – ICE and the IOF: Occupation, Borders, and State Violence
- Speakers Mohammad A. Saleem and Rajeh A Saadeh
- Collab with Muslim Law Students Association & Advocates for the Incarcerated
- Wed. 3/4 – Abolition Week Panel with Angelo Guisado (CCR), Yazmine Nichols (Wilf Impact Center of Public Interest Law), and Rachel Patterson (Family Defense Attorney at Neighborhood Defender Service)
- Collab with Black Law Students Association and Advocates for the Incarcerated
- Wed. 3/4 – Know Your Rights & Community Packaging Event With Unlocal
- We will also create packages of sanitary products for UnLocal’s clients
- Collab with Immigration Advocacy Project and International Refugee Assistance Project
- Wed. 3/4 – Small Action, Big Impact: Protecting a Family from ICE Starts with You
- In this workshop, teens from the YA-YA Network will introduce a community-based mutual aid system that has successfully supported neighbors during ICE raids in cities like Portland and Chicago.
- Participants will learn how this model works & how they can adapt and implement it in NYC.
- In this workshop, teens from the YA-YA Network will introduce a community-based mutual aid system that has successfully supported neighbors during ICE raids in cities like Portland and Chicago.
- Thurs. 3/5 – Unlock the Bar: Character and Fitness Teach-in
- Join us for a workshop navigating the character & fitness process and fighting back against the barriers that keep Black, brown, and system-impacted voices out of the legal profession.
- Fri. 3/6 – Night of Spoken word
- Live music & poetry from formerly incarcerated folks.
- Cash donations for performers are encouraged.
- Live music & poetry from formerly incarcerated folks.
Harvard NLG
Events:
- Mon. 3/2 – Immigration Court Watch
- Collab with Harvard Immigration Project
- Mon. 3/2 – Violence & Resistance from Palestine to Minneapolis
- Collab with Harvard Law Justice for Palestine, HLS Tzedek, & Alliance for Reproductive Justice
- Mon. 3/2 – Speak Up for Your Neighbors
- Drop in session to write public testimony in support of immigrant community members
- Collab with La Alianza & Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
- Tues. 3/3 – Abolish ICE: New Horizons with Coalicion se Derechos Humanos
- Isabel Garcia
- Wed. 3/4 – Anti-Carceral Feminism with Professor Beth Richie
- Collab with Survivor Justice Coalition, Harvard Defenders, Black Law Students Association, Alliance for Reproductive Justice, and Women in Law Association
- Thurs. 3/5 – Family Separation: Deportation, Family Policing, & Incarceration
- With Alicia Lopez Gonzales, Sashi James, and Tatiana Rodriguez
- Collab with Alliance for Reproductive Justice
- Fri. 3/6 – ICE & Indigenous Peoples with Christian Williams & Kisha James
Cardozo NLG
Events:
- Mon. 3/2 – Unlock the Bar Training
- Tues. 3/3 – Book Talk “Impermissible Punishment”
- Wed. 3.4 – MRNY Know Your Rights Training
- Thurs. 3/5 – Immigration Lawyering Against ICE Panel
- Fri. 3/6 – NLG Cross-Chapter Social
NYU NLG
- Mon. 3/2 – Informational Tabling
- Anti-ICE informational pamphlets and learning about other ways to get involved in the Guild on campus and beyond
- Tues. 3/3 – Documentary Screening & Discussion
- Dinner & screening of a documentary featuring undocumented immigrant workers in NYC fighting their abusive conditions, followed by a student-led discussion
- Thurs. 3/5 – Lawyering & Abolition Panel
- Movement lawyers & organizers from Center for Constitutional Rights & the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
- Fri. 3/6 – City-wide NLG Social at Off the Wagon
- NLG chapters from law schools across NYC & movement lawyers meet up at a social evening
Loyola New Orleans NLG
Events:
- Mon. 3/2 – Letter Writing Workshop
- Come join us in writing letters to urge our local representatives to stop funding ICE. We will also be making whistle packets!
Williamette University College of Law
Events:
- Tabling Mon. 3/2 & Tues. 3/3 to raise donations to Portland Immigrant Resource Collection
- Wed. 3/4 – NLG Attorney Panel – Guild lawyers who are active in legal observation on their experiences on the ground at ICE protests.
- Austin Leigh Pryfogle
- Kim Hunter
- Thurs. 3/5 – WUCL Professor Panel
- Professors Davidson, Poor, and Wohlers will be presenting some of their own research and experience regarding abolition, alternatives to incarceration and police, and the damaging effects our current system has on people who go through our criminal system as it exists now.
Boston University NLG
Events:
- Tues. 3/2 – Movement Lawyering as a Policy Advocate
- Also tabling in the building to collect written testimonial for a state Congress hearing on anti-ICE legislation.
University of Sand Diego NLG
Events:
- Mon. 3/2 – Immigration Community Support & Know Your Rights Workshop
University of Georgia
Events:
- Wed. 3/4 – Rights on Thin ICE: Discussion on Immigration Enforcement, Mass Surveillance, and Civil Liberties
- Laura Rivera (Just Futures Law) and Sam Hamilton (Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta)
University of Denver NLG
Events:
- Wed. 3/4 – Hummingbirds Film Screening
- Mon. 3/9 – Shut Down GEO: Ending Immigration Detention in CO
- Join DU Law students to learn about the community-led coalition working to end the contract between ICE and a for-profit prison company in Aurora, CO. Lunch provided.
UCLA NLG
https://www.instagram.com/ucla_nlg
Events:
- Theme = Abolish ICE
- Mon. 3/2 – How to Spot ICE
- Mon. 3/9 – Antifa on Trial: Info Session & Letter Writing
- Thurs. 3/12 – Habeas & Immigration: Resisting Trump’s Efforts to Deport Students and Others for Speech
Temple Law NLG
Events:
- Mon. 3/9 – Bake Sale & Abolitionist Calendar Auction
- All proceeds will go to The Freedomside School
- Tues. 3/10 – Film Screening: Judas and the Black Messiah
- Wed. 3/11 – Free Minds Workshop: Reading & Responding to Incarcerated People’s Writing
- Donuts and coffee provided
- Thurs. 3/12 – Special Screening of Expanding Sanctuary with director Kristal Sotomayor
- Collaboration with Sotomayor Productions & LALSA. Lunch Provided
Case Western Reserve University NLG
Events: (individual fliers for each)
- Mon. 3/16 – Redefining Rehabilitation with Education & Recreation
- Speaker from the Marshall Project
- Mon. 3/16 – Layperson Naloxone Training
- Speaker from Cleveland Department of Health
- Tues. 3/17 & Thurs. 3/19 – Abolition Action Toolkit
- Wed. 3/18 – Voices of Justice: Federal Public Defense
- Thurs. 3/19 – Fighting for Rights in a World of Wrongs
Texas A&M Law NLG
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVO769dEZl5
Events:
- Thurs. 2/26 – Abolition Discussion – Speakers Dan Sullivan & Zainab Khan
UVA Law NLG
Events:
- Week of 3/30-4/3 – More info to come soon!
- Mon. 3/30 – Primer on Abolition
- Tues. 3/31 – Abolition & Immigration Panel
- Food provided. Co-sponsored by Immigration Law Society
- Wed. 4/1 – Dinner with Formerly Incarcerated Community Members
- Co-sponsored by the Innocence Project Clinic
- Thurs. 4/2 – Organizing Against Mass Incarceration: Inside and on the Street
- Food provided. Co-sponsored by LAJC
- Fri. 4/3 – Day of Service
- Virtual pro bono session with Florida Rights Restoration Coalition. Volunteers will help identify individuals eligible for expungement & voting rights restoration.
