Contributed By: Joanie Steffen
For our work with FJAH, I’ve been organizing with People Not Prisons (also called PNP, FJAH’s external volunteer/organizing formation) for the last year and a half or so. One of our members (Collette) also attends weekly legislative strategy meetings under PNP. Through that relationship, our chapter has found opportunities to support FJAH and PNP in their … Read more>>
Join the NLG International for an important webinar:
Understanding the Crisis in Ukraine
Monday February, 28th
1PM EST /10AM PST/6PM GMT
Register online: https://bit.ly/crisisinukraine
Speakers:
Yevgenii Gerasymenko, Ukrainian Association of Democratic Lawyers
Marjorie Cohn, National Lawyers Guild International, International Association of Democratic Lawyers
Discussion facilitated by Suzanne Adely, NLG President and NLG International co-chair
Other Speakers to be … Read more>>
Please join the Northeastern School of Law Abolition Collective, Housing Justice Collective, and the National Lawyers Guild for a panel discussion during the Week Against Mass Incarceration on February 28th, from 5:30-7pm in DK 250. The year’s theme is Mass Incarceration and the Housing Crisis. Panelists will include community leaders and organizers from Justice 4 Housing, City Life/ Vida Urbana, … Read more>>
The Harvard student chapter of NLG-Mass is hard at work this year on various projects and we will be sharing more on those as the details come in. For now, there are two events that you can look forward to that are listed below. Register Now!
Our Harvard student chapter is working along with Project LETS to facilitate a Bystander … Read more>>Cosecha’s long campaign and fight for the rights of Massachusetts residents who have yet completed the formal immigration process has come to an end. The House has passed a bill that makes it possible for those residents to get their own driver’s license.
We have been supported Cosecha from the beginning of this campaign, providing legal support and legal observes … Read more>>
Student member, Kylah Clay is one of a growing force of employees who are taking a stand for workers rights and fighting to mobilize workers to band together to unionize the workforce of Starbucks. Kylah and Ash O’Neill are two organizers and leaders based out of an Allston Starbucks, one of the stores that has petitioned the NLRB for a union … Read more>>
Amanda Chan, NLG member and former member of the NLG Harvard student chapter, has recently published an article taking on the culture of Harvard Law School’s censorship of student activism. In her article, Chan shines and focuses a spotlight upon the systems and methods that Harvard has created and utilized in order to suppress the voices and activism of the … Read more>>
Since the police murder of George Floyd, the NLG Litigation Committee has worked with progressive city councilors in Boston, Somerville, and Cambridge to have those cities adopt an ordinance which would severely restrict the use of so-called “non-lethal” chemical crowd control and kinetic impact weapons on demonstrations involving ten or more citizens. A model ordinance was drafted by NLG attorneys Jeff … Read more>>
On June 9, the NLG-Mass Chapter hosted its first in over a year Happy Hour with activists from Springfield-No One Leaves – Rose Webster Smith (Executive Director) and Bonnie Inserra (Homeowner Organizer). Rose and Bonnie led a conversation about housing crisis in Massachusetts and the work the Springfield-No One Leaves is engaged in to address the current crisis and how … Read more>>
PRESS RELEASE
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May 29, 2021
Contacts:
David Kelston – 617-838-6657, dkelston@akzlaw.com
Urszula Masny-Latos – 617-308-0947, nlgmass-director@riseup.net
NLG-MASS CHAPTER FILES A LAWSUIT AGAINST BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT AND BRIC FOR VIOLATIONS OF PUBLIC RECORDS LAW AND THEIR OWN RULES & REGULATIONS
Boston, May 29, 2021 – On Friday, May 28, 2021, the National Lawyers Guild-Massachusetts Chapter (NLG) filed a lawsuit … Read more>>
NLG Happy Hour
Fighting the Eviction Epidemic
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
6:00-8:00 pm
Join us for a virtual discussion about the ongoing
housing crisis with Rose Webster Smith and other
activists from No One Leaves-Springfield, an
organization that fights evictions in Western Mass.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81493790424
The following is taken from an email sent by Attorney Jeff Feuer to our membership:
Last night (Thursday, April 8th 2021) the Somerville City Council passed an ordinance which outright bans the use of tear gas, regulates the use of pepper spray, and severely restricts the use of other chemical crowd control weapons and kinetic impact projectiles (rubber bullets, … Read more>>
The following is an update on the Chemical Weapons Ordinance by Ben Ewen-Campen, Ward 3 City Councilor as posted to his Facebook page.
Tear Gas Ban PASSED out of committee! Final vote next Thursday. This Ordinance will ban tear gas outright, strictly regulate chemical & kinetic crowd control weapons (i.e. rubber bullets), and establish clear guidelines for pepper spray. Enormous… Read more>>For decades, comrades across the country and the world have been in the streets fighting against white supremacy and the imperialist, capitalist, and heteropatriarchal systems of oppression it breeds. Over the past year in particular, we have seen a spike in protests and other direct actions in response to racial and economic injustices perpetuated and sanctioned by the state. To … Read more>>
NLG-Mass lawyers are currently hard at work pushing for city-wide ordinances in Cambridge, Somerville and Boston that would make the use of chemical and kinetic force weapons by police restricted/illegal. This is incredibly important when considering how the aforementioned tactics were used against protestors last year. The fight against these horrific tactics is ongoing!
https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/cambridge-chronicle-tab/2021/03/16/cambridge-officials-consider-tear-gas-ban-police-draft-own-policy/4714994001/… Read more>>
The Week Against Mass Incarceration will begin on March 1st and run through the 6th. Click the link below to sign up and to learn about the diverse offerings including a panel with Black … Read more>>
PRESS RELEASE
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Contacts:
Jeff Feuer – 617-642-3111
CITY OF BOSTON PASSES AN ORDINANCE TO RESTRICT THE USE OF
CHEMICAL CROWD CONTROL WEAPONS BY BOSTON LAW ENFORCEMENT
Boston, December 17, 2020 – On December 16, 2020, the Boston City Council took an historic step forward by passing, with an 8 to 4 vote, an ordinance which restricts the use of … Read more>>
Last Friday, Oct. 23, the National Lawyers Guild-Massachusetts Chapter celebrated a year of hard work and achievements of our members – lawyers and law students – and of local activists who fight for the rights of the people and justice in the courts, classrooms, and on the streets of Massachusetts. While we were unable to meet in person, as we … Read more>>
On September 24, 2020, member of the NLG-Mass Chapter Mass Defense Committe Attorney Jeff Feuer appeared in person in Roxbury District Court to represent ten climate change activists who had been arrested for hanging a huge CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW banner over the Citgo sign in Kenmore Square during a Red Sox game this summer.
Despite the fact that this was … Read more>>
On August 6, 2020, the Boston Globe run a story title “Sex Offender Just Set Free by Mass Bail Fund” which was an attack against Massachusetts Bail Fund, an organization which prides itself in bringing some justice to poor people who suffer under our very unjust cash bail system. On August 7, 2020, the NLG-Mass Chapter wrote the following letter … Read more>>
Dear Mayor Walsh, District Attorney Rollins, Boston City Council, and all State and other local elected officials:
The National Lawyers Guild-Massachusetts is gravely concerned with the ongoing
situation in Portland, Oregon. As we write this letter, reports continue to roll in from
Portland, where unidentified federal agents have been arresting protestors without due process. According to reports, people have been … Read more>>
On Friday, June 26, 2020, at an anti-police brutality protest in Lynn, NLG Legal Observers were hard at work providing the forward facing, on-site support that we are proud to supply to organizers and protesters alike.
From left to right: Katarina Ezikovich, Charley Gibson, Max Fowler, and Ren Workman… Read more>>
