The NLG student chapter at Northeastern has been quite busy these past months. Throughout last September, NLG members at Northeastern participated in Election Observing as the greater Northeastern community voted on a Graduate Worker Union; on September 30th, our members attended the NLG Student Brunch hosted by the NLG-Mass Chapter at Andala Cafe in Cambridge; we participated in the MA Statewide Indigenous Peoples Day March; in October, we organized an Abolitionist Potluck at the Lucy Parsons Center in Jamaica Plain where leftist law students came together to share food and build community with one another; in November, our chapter attended a Legal Observer training hosted by the NLG-Mass Chapter; and in December, we hosted a holiday card writing session; our members wrote 100 holiday cards from Critical Resistance for our incarcerated comrades throughout the country. Our members also handmade and wrote postcards to send to our elected representatives urging them to support a ceasefire in Palestine. (See photos below.)
Additionally, our chapter has been very active in organizing in solidarity with Palestinian liberation. On October 14th, we distributed a sign-on letter to the general NUSL student body in solidarity with Palestine. On October 23rd, NLG members and the general student body walked out of our classes, rallied, and participated in a letter drop to the Dean demanding an end to the occupation of Palestine. On October 26th, our chapter and another student group, the Abolitionist Learning Zone (ALZ), co-sponsored a teach-in about differentiating between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. NLG members also protested three listening sessions hosted by NUSL regarding police use of force against an NLG law student on campus at a pro-Palestine rally.
After NUSL’s Law Students for Justice in Palestine was established, our chapter helped support and organize events for the remainder of the semester. NLG members tabled in the student common for several weeks with phone bank opportunities for students to call their representatives and demand a ceasefire in Palestine. Phone bank efforts were also made to end Elbit Systems presence in Cambridge. On November 9th, NUSL’s NLG members protested Kamala Harris during her visit and fundraiser event in Boston. NLG and SJP screened the documentary Tantura, an Israeli filmmaker’s documentary on the 1948 Tantura village massacre. On November 29th, NUSL’s NLG and SJP members led a walkout to attend the rally at City Hall in Boston as part of the larger call to ‘Shut it Down for Palestine.’ NLG members picketed Shubert Theater in Boston, protesting Joe Biden’s visit and fundraising event in solidarity for a ceasefire and demand to an end to the occupation of Palestine.
