The National Lawyers Guild chapters of the undersigned law schools in the United States stand in solidarity with and affirm the statements of Harvard’s National Lawyers Guild (NLG) in response to the Department of Education’s letter instructing Harvard University to end its NLG chapter’s support and recognition of pro-Palestine organizations.

NLG chapters in law schools are integral to the project … Read more>>

On April 11, 2025, the Trump Administration privately sent a letter to Harvard University containing a series of racist and reactionary demands, including one that Harvard defund and dissolve the Harvard University Law School chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (HLS NLG), along with several other student groups supporting Palestinian rights.  Students at HLS NLG shared this statement in response: https://www.nlg.org/statement-nlg-harvard/

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Last Friday, the Trump Administration privately sent a letter to Harvard University with a series of racist, reactionary, and unconstitutional demands attacking civil liberties, academic freedom, human rights, and racial justice. The letter explicitly calls on Harvard to defund and dissolve the Harvard Law School chapter of the National Lawyers Guild—along with several student groups supporting Palestinian rights—and punish our … Read more>>

The Resistance Committee met on April 7 to hear reports from our newly formed subcommittees. Our Committee has been dedicated to expanding NLG-MA capacity to fight Trumpism since January. In recent weeks, our subcommittees have allowed us to tackle a range of pressing issues, incorporate new voices, and maintain momentum. Four of our five subcommittees met since our last meeting, so we … Read more>>

TO: Members of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild

FROM: Ronald Fox

RE: THE 250TH, SAMUEL ADAMS AND THE COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE

DATE: April 2, 2025

As I read about not only the abuses and crimes of Trump and Netanyahu but also the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, I thought back … Read more>>

The Resistance Committee has grown to over twenty members. Threats to our immigrant neighbors have been our biggest focus over the past few weeks. The Resistance Committee now has two active projects that support non-citizens in MA at different points of intervention. We partnered with MIRA to train dozens of NLG-MA members to provide Know Your Rights workshops to community … Read more>>

The Annual Dinner will be on Friday, May 16, at the Arts at the Armory in Somerville.  Invitations to the event will be sent out in early March.  We hope you will be with us on this special day and join us in celebrating this year’s honorees and the Guild!

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The Annual Dinner will be on Friday, May 16, at the Arts at the Armory in Somerville.  Invitations to the event will be sent out in early March.  We hope you will be with us on this special day and join us in celebrating this year’s honorees and the Guild!

I.O.N. has been hard at work, building trainings and educational resources, supporting workers in different stages of the unionization and bargaining processes, and conducting research on the changing state of labor law and how best to organize around it.

– Trainings and Educational Resources: I.O.N. has built and offered training on filing unfair labor practices, defending against union-busting, invoking … Read more>>

MIRA is a coalition of organizations dedicated to advancing the rights of immigrants and refugees across New England. Founded in 1987, its more than 140 member organizations engage in a wide range of activities aimed to help those who arrived in Greater Boston from another country, with services ranging from on-the-ground assistance, to advocating for policies at the highest levels … Read more>>

NLG-MA members have formed a Resistance Committee to brainstorm, build, and act in resistance to rising facism. Our Committee has been meeting weekly since Inauguration Day. We are staying updated on Trump 2.0 attacks on our communities and neighbors, so we can direct NLG-MA resources to respond quickly to growing crises. 

This week, about thirty NLG members trained with the … Read more>>

by V. Chay

On Saturday, November 16, a Christian-Right forced-birth group, the Men’s March, staged a rally and march along Commonwealth Avenue in Boston from Planned Parenthood to Boston Common.  Flyers encouraged participants to adopt a dress code of suits or clerical uniform.  This group includes known members of far-right coalitions. 

In response, a network of local groups and activists planned a … Read more>>

Well, it certainly has been a busy year for activists across the state, and that means it has been a busy year for our Mass Defense Committee! We worked in partnership with the NLG Legal Observer program and the Litigation Committee most closely this year to provide the holistic, wrap around social movement support that organizers have come to depend … Read more>>

The State’s Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism held its first meeting on October 29, launching a process which may have profound implications for free speech, academic freedom, education, hate crimes designations, and all anti-racist struggles in the Commonwealth.  Many Commission appointees represent or have ties to major Israel-aligned organizations in the State: The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Jewish Community Relations … Read more>>