Here's to the National Lawyers Guild, a tip of the hat!

[Earth_First]

I just saw a group of NLG Legal Observers with their unmistakable lime green hats on the livestream.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

:patriot:

[OutNow]

1. National Lawyers Guild - send them a contribution

Say what you will about lawyers, but the folks that are members of the NLG provide legal representation for those arrested, and help them through the paperwork and cop procedures and all the other crap the system throws at you. I was recused from the depths of the D.C. city jail in May 1971 by NLG volunteers, when cops were throwing tear gas into the cells to try to silence the hundreds of people packed into holding cells made for a dozen or so people.

If you are so inclined, you can send the NLG a contribution. That's what I did this morning.

[AverageJoe90]

5. Good for them! nt

[avaistheone1]

2. They are wonderful.

O8)


k&r


:kick:

[proud patriot]

3. My hat is off to you

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Thanks for posting this, I had never heard of them. Worth a Google or a Wiki ...

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is a bar association in the United States "dedicated to the need for basic and progressive change in the structure of our political and economic system . . . to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests."<1>

Its members include lawyers, law students, paralegals, legal secretaries, "jailhouse lawyers", and other legal workers. It was founded in 1937 as an alternative to the American Bar Association (in protest of the ABA's then policy of excluding blacks and Jews from membership) and has several local chapters across the country as well as a number of Committees and Projects. It is an affiliate of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, which was considered a Soviet front organization by American authors in the decades before the break-up of the Soviet Union.<2> The NLG web site lists the following aims:

to eliminate racism;
to safeguard and strengthen the rights of workers, women, farmers and minority groups, upon whom the welfare of the entire nation depends;
to maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties in the face of persistent attacks upon them;
to use the law as an instrument for the protection of the people, rather than for their repression.

The NLG has historically been noted for its championing of progressive and left-wing causes.<3> Currently, the NLG opposes the PATRIOT Act, corporate globalization, the World Trade Organization, and has called for the adoption of "the Plan of Action from the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance." The NLG also helps to train and provide legal observers for political demonstrations. The NLG has supported Palestinian rights and a number of other causes. In November 2007, the NLG passed a resolution calling for the impeachment of then President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.<4>
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more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lawyers_Guild