Member Recap: March 26, 2021
…of the National Lawyers Guild and one of the founders of the National Police Accountability Project. Moderator: Rachel Pickens, Executive Director, National Police Accountability Project.” REGISTER HERE National,…
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[WEBINAR] How the Federalist Society’s Philosophies Took Over the Courts… and How Movement Lawyers Can Fight Back
…Police Accountability Project. He is the co-author, with Danielle McLaughlin, of The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals. Moderator: Rachel Pickens, Executive Director, National Police Accountability Project…
#WAMI2021 Roundup
…as part of the larger mass incarceration system (and in line with the Guild’s 2020 resolution supporting the abolition of police). Now a full year into the pandemic, NLG law…
Bylaws and Resolutions
…Investigation and Prosecution of Police Killings and Reopen Michael Brown and Eric Garner Homicide Cases Resolution: Driving Big Money Out of Elections Resolution: Code of Conduct for NLG Events &…
Member Recap, March 11, 2021
…piece makes the case for the abolition of policing and offers examples of individuals and projects taking power and resources away from police and prisons to create non-carceral, non-punitive alternatives….
International Commission of Inquiry to Open Hearings on Racist Police Violence in the US on MLK Day
…Lawyers (IADL) and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) have assembled a commission of experts from around the world to investigate racist police violence against people of African descent in the…
Chapters
…Region Illinois: Chicago Primary Contact: chicago@nlg.org If you or someone you know has been arrested and needs a lawyer to visit them in police custody, contact the Cook County Public Defender…
The Case for Abolition, for Skeptics
…police brutality to see law enforcement as a less than ideal, but still necessary feature of society. This conditioning tells us that police prevent violence, when in reality police simply…
Chapters
…(971) 247-1072 Non-jail line for when you are out of police custody, to report that your friend has been arrested, or if you witness or experience state violence: (833) 680-1312….
Member Recap: Feb. 25, 2021
…A webinar discussion about police abolition, featuring resources by Critical Resistance Additional programming about police abolition during the WAMI (Week Against Mass Incarceration) March 1-6, led by NLG law students…
