Reminder on how to contact NLG Chicago and who to contact when.  Please be patient.  We are overwhelmed with inquiries right now and doing our best to reply.

If you or a loved one has been arrested and is IN LOCKUP, please call the Cook County Public Defenders office at 844-817-4448.  You will need the person’s full legal name and date of birth.

If you or a loved one has been criminally charged due to participation in demonstrations and needs legal representation, please call our Mass Defense Committee hotline.

If you are planning an action and seeking Legal Observers, please email chicago.lo.program@gmail.com.

If you would like to volunteer with us and you are an attorney, please fill out this form.  If you are a law student or legal worker, please fill out this form. If you are not an attorney, law student or legal worker, we may not have a role for you, but you can email chicago@nlg.org to inquire.  We are getting many volunteer inquiries and are replying to people as we are able. Please be patient if you do not hear back.  

If you are an attorney, law student, or legal worker and you would like to join the NLG Chicago, please visit www.nlg.org/join.  If you would like to donate, please click here.

For routine administrative inquiries including media requests, please email chicago@nlg.org

Thank you for your patience.  We will get back in touch as soon as we can.

NLG-Chicago is coordinating legal representation for people arrested during the George Floyd protests that began May 30, 2020. We are also coordinating on the ground legal support.

If you are an attorney licensed in Illinois and are potentially interested in volunteering your time to assist in providing legal representation, please fill out this form.

Note that this is only a preliminary request. Filling out this form does not commit you to any case. NLG will follow up with you shortly.

Volunteer Form for Legal Representation

In solidarity,

Mass Defense Committe

NLG-Chicago

For the past 130 years, workers around the world have gathered on May 1st to defend workers’ rights. While we can’t celebrate May Day in person as a chapter this year, we hope everyone is still staying connected to each other and to the struggle for justice.  Join these virtual gatherings to celebrate May Day 2020!

SpeakOut! MAY DAY MESSAGE FROM ANGELA DAVIS 
Friday, May 1, 3pm
On this International Workers Day, political activist, scholar, author, and SpeakOut speaker Angela Davis reflects on possible ways forward and what it’s going to take to bring about economic and racial justice. She invites us to reimagine a society that benefits all workers – from low wage earners to workers in the gig economy; from those working remotely to those on the front lines of the pandemic; from artists to incarcerated people.

SYSTEM IN CRISIS: A WORKING-CLASS VISION FOR THE FUTURE
Friday, May 1, 4pm
Celebrate May Day with a discussion from leading labor voices about how we can build a radical working class response to the current crisis. Featuring:
Stacy Davis Gates, VP of the Chicago Teachers Union
Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA
Sarah Jaffe, labor journalist
Register through Eventbrite to receive a link to the stream on the day of the event.
This event is a fundraiser for Haymarket Books and Labor Notes. Haymarket Books is an independent, radical, non-profit publisher. Labor Notes is a media and organizing project that is the voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement.

LabourStart VIRTUAL MAY DAY
Friday May 1st (ongoing)
LabourStart is the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement. LabourStart has organized an online May Day event spanning the globe – in cooperation with the International Trade Union Confederation and the global union federations. This Virtual May Day will feature videos from trade unions around the world — speeches, music and stories from workers’ struggles on every continent.