ION has made a lot of headway in 2025. On April 16th, we helped launch the Think Coffee Independent Union (TCIU) in New York City.
Then, on May Day (5/1) of this year, ION released Volume One of the “Post-NLRA Project” in collaboration with law students at UC Berkeley and Northeastern, which discusses the potential implications on both labor law … Read more>>
The Resistance Committee and its subcommittees continue to conduct important work to protect immigrants and undocumented people, the LGBTQ+ community, and our right to free speech. In just six months the Committee has seen its subcommittees blossom into their own entities, each taking on a range of tasks within their respective areas of law. The Committee hopes to see sustained … Read more>>
Chelsea Contrada reports: I was honored to attend the NLG Annual Testimonial Dinner this year. It was my second time attending and volunteering at this event and, as expected, it did not disappoint. Everything this year was as great as it was last year. Chico Fuego & the Gringos rocked the house; the honorees’ speeches where inspiriting and moving; … Read more>>
Nancy Murray, Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
Water is a human right – but Israel has made it a weapon
As Israel expands its genocidal war on Gaza, displaces more than 40,000 residents of West Bank refugee camps, and steadily empties the 62 percent of the West Bank called Area C under the Oslo process, the Palestinian cause has … Read more>>
At the beginning of May, the Resistance Committee held its monthly meeting to discuss progress of its ongoing projects to support our communities. Over the past few weeks, a major focus of our work has been setting up our two main projects to support and connect with non-citizen community members in crisis. We also continue to collaborate with MIRA to … Read more>>
I am a Jew by birth, and I have never renounced or shied away from Judaism. I have not changed my name or its spelling, or converted to another religion. Half my family are Jews, including both of my children. And I love them all.
My heritage is important to me. I never met my grandparents and some of my … Read more>>
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/
The … Read more>>
Know Your Rights Flyering Drive on Boston Marathon weekend was a Big Success!
This month, on Saturday the 19th and Sunday the 20th, the NLG Resistance Committee organized a “Know Your Rights (KYR) Flyering Drive.” Twelve members of the Committee printed hundreds of NLG and MIRA fliers with immigration-related KYR and ICE detention information, and distributed them to local businesses … 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>>
At the end of February, almost 20 Northeastern University School of Law students received a Legal Observer training at the joint NUSL and UMass Dartmouth session! The high amount of interest is indicative of students really wanting to do their part to secure the right to protest and criticize our government in the face of this increased oppression and attacks … 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!
Purchase Annual Dinner Tickets… Read more>>Kylah Clay (right) is a public defender in Boston. She represents protesters and activists through the Mass Defense Committee. She also helps workers organize independent unions through the Independent Organizing Network.
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Annie Guare (left) is an eviction defense attorney working on behalf of low-income tenants to prevent homelessness, curb unethical landlord practices, and increase access to affordable housing. She is … Read more>>
NUSL’s NLG Chapter began its semester themed around abolition by tabling to direct students to donate to mutual aid funds for those in Altadena impacted by the wildfire and for incarcerated fire fighters.
For the two lunch time tabling sessions NLG members brought in baked goods to incentivize donations and laid out an array of QR codes to easily direct … Read more>>
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>>
This year, the Lawyer Award will be presented to Fair Work P.C. (employment law office in Boston) and Rachel Weber (criminal defense attorney, based in Hampshire and Franklin Counties, MA); Lifetime Achievement Award – to Karl Klare (labor and employment law professor at Northeastern School of Law); Legal Worker Award – to Together for an Inclusive Massachusetts… Read more>>
