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Upcoming CLE: Litigating Workplace Sexual Violence Cases

Save the date for an upcoming CLE co-sponsored by TUPOCC!

Building Your Arsenal: Tools for Successfully Litigating Workplace Sexual Violence Cases

Learn more about successfully representing clients in sexual harassment cases. Filing a discrimination complaint may only be one component of an effective representation strategy. This interactive session will provide tools to better represent clients struggling with post-traumatic stress and encourage participants to use the law creatively to empower survivors.

Where: Kirkland & Ellis, LLP

             300 N. LaSallle, Room 7KLM

When: April 17, 2014

            1:00pm – 5:00pm

4 hour CLE credit will be given!

Discussion will include an analysis of:

  • The Illinois Gender Violence Act
  • Immigration relief for survivors
  • Survivor centered litigation
  • Anti-trafficking laws, and more

Speakers:

Sheerine Alemzadeh, Staff Attorney with Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation

Karla Altmayer, Equal Justice Works Fellow with LAF

Allison Creekmur, VISTA attorney with LAF

*RSVP to kaltmayer@lafchicago.org with your name and organization name by April 4, 2014

                          

          

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Chicago Torture Survivors Reparations Ordinance

Please Support the Chicago Torture Survivors Reparations Ordinance!

This past fall, on October 16, 2013, Aldermen Howard Brookins and Proco Joe Moreno introduced an Ordinance seeking Reparations for the Chicago Police Torture Survivors drafted by the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Project (CTJM) and the People’s Law Office. The ordinance has since been sent to the finance committee of Chicago’s City Council.

Please sign the  on line petition at:

http://www.change.org/petitions/pass-the-ordinance-seeking-reparations-for-the-chicago-police-torture-survivors

On (HEARING POSTPONED, TBD) Tuesday, March 4, 2014, from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., the Finance Committee will be having a hearing on the reparations ordinance. Join us at the hearing in the City Council chambers on the 2nd floor of City Hall. A large turnout of supporters at the hearing will have a profound impact on how the Alderpeople hear our appeal and consider their support.

The Ordinance calls for a formal apology to the survivors; creates a Commission to administer financial compensation to the survivors; creates a medical, psychological and vocational center on the south side for the survivors and their family members; provides free enrollment in City Colleges for the survivors and family members; requires Chicago Public schools to teach a history lesson about the cases; requires the City to fund public memorials about the cases; and sets aside $20 million to finance this redress, the same amount of money the City has spent to defend Burge, other detectives and former Mayor Richard M. Daley in the Chicago Police torture cases.

The torture survivors continue to suffer from the psychological effects of the torture they endured; many without any compensation or assistance or legal recourse for any redress. The City of Chicago is responsible for these undeniable human rights violations and it must make amends to the torture survivors, family members and communities of color affected by these racist, police practices. The Ordinance is an important and lasting way for it to do so.

You can read the entire ordinance at www.chicagotorture.org or www.peopleslawoffice.com

 

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Fred Korematsu Day

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Thursday, January 30th, 11:45am-1pm
DePaul College of Law, 25 E. Jackson Blvd, Room 903
Fred Korematsu is the Japanese-American man who would not consent to being interned after President Roosevelt ordered that all Japanese-Americans be interned as World War II began. He is also the individual responsible for the landmark Korematsu v. United States case.
Join us for a screening of the brief film “Of Civil Rights and Wrongs” about Korematsu’s life and a discussion about the racial profiling he endured then and the racial profiling too often experienced by people of color today.
Reflections by:
Kiyo Yoshimura 
Former internee in Japanese-American internment camps
 
Rabya Khan
Staff attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations

Sponsors: CAIR-Chicago, National Lawyers Guild-Chicago TUPOCC, Japanese American Citizens League, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago, South Asian American Policy & Research Institute, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, The Chicago International Social Change Film Festival, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum-Chicago 

 

Student Group Sponsors: DePaul NLG, DePaul APALSA, Northwestern University South Asian Law Student Association, and Northwestern University APALSA, Chicago-Kent APALSA 

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TUPOCC Hot Chocolate Social

Come meet law students, legal workers, and attorneys and discuss how we can work with/in communities of color in 2014.

Join The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC) as we warm up with a hot chocolate or a cafe´con leche and meet other radical people of color in the National Lawyer’s Guild.
When: Wednesday, January 22nd at 5:30pm
Where: Cafecito, 26 E. Congress Parkway (between State and Wabash)TUPOCC’s mission is to create a space within the National Lawyer’s Guild for attorneys, legal workers, and law students of color who are committed to people’s rights over property rights to build community, strategize for radical political change and provide support to the courageous struggles of communities of color.

Visit our Facebook page to find out more about TUPOCC Chicago and the NLG:https://www.facebook.com/TUPOCCChicagoChapter

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Next Gen Happy Hour at Cardozo’s Pub

Kick-Off the New Year and New Semester at the NEXT GEN HAPPY HOUR

When: This Friday, January 17, 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.

Where: Cardozo’s Pub, 170 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602 (easily accessible from all L lines!)

We have the side room reserved.

Specials: Drinks are pretty cheap and this is a chance to see all your old (and future) NextGen pals

The Next Gen Happy Hour:  Every month, the Next Gen Committee of the National Lawyers Guild of Chicago throws a happy hour to bring together young, progressive, and radical attorneys, law students, and legal workers to drink, socialize, organize, and relax.  

Join us! We would really love to see as many people out for this happy hour as possible. With the convention right around the bend, let’s reconnect!

Contact

637 S. Dearborn St., 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60605

(773) 492-1405
chicago[@]nlg.org