Whether you are an activist, organizer, or simply an ordinary person, it is essential that you know your rights and feel comfortable exercising them.
Don’t forget to check out NLG Chicago‘s resource page for information on knowing and asserting your rights!
CONGRATULATIONS to all of our Next Gen folks who have completed the bar exam! Let’s get together for our monthly happy hour, and for a special post-bar celebration.
The Chicago Next Gen Committee hosts this monthly Happy Hour for young, progressive, and radical attorneys, legal workers, and law students. Come out for drinks and socializing with your community! And, drag along all the friends and co-workers that you can wrangle! Bring someone new along!
WHERE: El Cid II, 2645 N. Kedzie.
WHEN: Friday August 5th, 6-8 PM
SPECIALS: $4.75 Margaritas, other specials TBA
- A history of grand jury and executive power prosecutorial abuse, including the Palmer Raids, the McCarthy era, grand juries targeting Puerto Rican, civil rights and anti-war activists.
- The ABC’s of representing people before grand juries, including important First Amendment rights for organizations whose records are subpoenaed, implications of FBI infiltration, and how to use First Amendment rights to defend against grand jury subpoenas and prosecution.
- First Amendment and criminal defense issues raised by Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
- A client’s perspective.
Michael Deutsch is a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer at People’s Law Office who has written about grandjury abuse.Bernardine Dohrn is associate clinical professor at Northwestern’s Children and Family Justice Center, and was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in the early 1980’s but resisted and served time in prison for her refusal.Aziz Huq is an assistant professor at University of Chicago Law School, and previously litigated national security cases at the Brennan Center for Justice.Stan Willis is a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer, activist, and active member of NCBL.Susan Gzesh (moderator) is the director of the University of Chicago Human Rights Program and is a lawyer.
Continuing Legal Education Seminar
Presented by members of the Bay Area Military Law Panel.
An orientation to military law and discharges, and how to advise service members seeking discharge from the military.
Presented by: Rai Sue Sussman and Jane Kaplan of the Bay Area Military Law Panel
Tuition goes directly to pay cost and includes:
Printed material can be pre-ordered for an additional $50. Financial hardship assistance available.
Email chicago[@]nlg[.]org for more information.
Sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. Co-sponsored by: Iraq Veterans Against the War, Vietnam Veterans Against the War Chicago, and Civilian-Solider Alliance.
UPDATE! From the Boricua Human Rights Network:
As of today, there is no word from the United States Parole Board (USPC) regarding Oscar López Rivera’s release. Please continue to call-in, mail and fax letters. The USPC is telling callers that they must write (only write, not call or fax). PLEASE CONTINUE TO CALL, part of our instance on calling is to offset the conservative and reactionary callers that are calling every day.
CONTINUE TO FAX THE LETTERS! Here is a link to a petition you can send. We have experienced, and heard from others across different countries that the fax lines are jammed. It often takes up to 1 hour or more to get through. THIS IS GOOD NEWS. It means that we are overwhelming them with faxes! Sympathizers, activists, students and organizers from Puerto Rico, the US, Mexico, Panama, Australia and Venezuela have been faxing, calling and mailing letters.
OUR ESTIMATE is that, since Oscar’s parole hearing on January 5, OVER 7000 letters have been faxed and mailed. The USPC has stated to te media that they have never had a case like this, with so much activity. We need to continue to apply the pressure! Please continue to fax, and mail letters! Please continue to call ONCE A DAY, EVERY DAY, UNTIL WE HEAR FROM THE PAROLE BOARD.
For more information about Oscar, visit the National Boricua Human Rights Network. Oscar is represented by NLG Chicago attorney Jan Susler, of the People’s Law Office.
