The Portland NLG chapter is hosting its monthly Happy Hour this Friday, January 17! Join other Guild members at The Florida Room, 435 N Killingsworth from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Get to know other folks who are also fighting for progressive causes in the legal system. Talk shop or forget all about work and have…
Join the NLG for a Know Your Rights training covering the legal steps and choices activists need to understand when navigating the criminal punishment system this Thursday, Dec 12, 3:00-4:30PM PST. Registration is open! While prosecutions can vary by locality, they follow a similar process across the U.S. This training will share what to generally…
Join us for groundbreaking discussions on movement law, and be a part of the legal arm of liberation movements! The NLG’s 2024 #Law4ThePeople Convention will take place at the Hilton Birmingham Downtown at UAB, in Birmingham, AL on Wednesday, October 30 – Sunday, November 3, 2024! Registration is still open! This year, we are offering…
In March 2024, people took nonviolent action in Ohio, in support of Palestine, blocking a Boeing factory. This led to low-level misdemeanors against five people. But Boeing wanted more: it pushed for incarceration and hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution against protesters. Come learn about this case and reflections of those involved! Register now!…
On November 19, 2022, an attempted armed robbery was reported in southeast Portland, and city police were dispatched in response. Minutes later, Immanueal “Manny” Clark was dead. According to an ongoing federal lawsuit, dispatchers made clear, based on reports to 911, that all perpetrators were white men. Despite this, Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers pulled…
Are you feeling less than excited about the upcoming elections? Are you weary from the electioneering and anxious about whether our votes will actually make a difference? You’re not alone! Local activists and artists working with the Risk/Reward performing arts collective are coming together to put on a festival that will be “three days of…
National Lawyers Guild-Portland Chapter member lawyers are helping support legal action against the City of Portland, Legacy Emanuel Hospital, and Prosper Portland on behalf of 27 survivors or descendants of mass displacement from the historically Black neighborhood of Central Albina. The Emanuel Displaced Persons Association 2 (EDPA2) formed to find redress for the mass evictions…
The Expungement Project, supported by the National Lawyers Guild-Portland Chapter aims to repair some of the damage done by the drug war and over-policing, especially in BIPOC communities. The Project provides free criminal record expungement assistance every Friday on a walk-in basis through the CLEAR Clinic, hosted at Portland Community College, and it also hosts…
The Lewis & Clark Law School chapter of the National Lawyers Guild began the new school year with a great showing at the college’s kickoff tabling event, and they followed up with their annual DisOrientation week! Tabling at the Student Organization Fair on September 5, chapter members made the case to new and returning law…