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- Disturbing the Universe Screening
Landmark Shattuck Cinema
Monday, November 23 at 7:30pm - Holiday Soiree & Auction
The Blue Macaw
Thursday, December 10 at 6:00pm
National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Our annual auction will be Thursday, December 10, 2009 starting at 6 PM at The Blue Macaw, 2565 Mission Street in San Francisco. Bid on items or just meet up with friends before the winter holidays. The auction will close at 9 PM, but the party will continue. Plenty of food and drink will be available on site. Everyone... is welcome!
$10 Low Income; $25 Attorneys & Friends; Free for Sustainers, Sponsors & Law Student Members
Admission at the door.
Cash bar.
Have something to donate?
Contact Raul at raul@nlgsf.org or 415.285.5067x11. You can also fill out a donation pledge form online by clicking here: https://app.e2ma.net/app2/survey/34256/2
$10 Low Income; $25 Attorneys & Friends; Free for Sustainers, Sponsors & Law Student Members
Admission at the door.
Cash bar.
Have something to donate?
Contact Raul at raul@nlgsf.org or 415.285.5067x11. You can also fill out a donation pledge form online by clicking here: https://app.e2ma.net/app2/survey/34256/2
Celebrating the Work of the Committee Against Torture
Time:6:00PM Thursday, December 10th
Location:The Blue Macaw
Vic Sadot
Salute to the NLG SF Bay Area Chapter from your Broadside Balladeer in Berkeley!
Tell John Yoo That Torture Is A
Crime at YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDEDCwhmy
Source: www.youtube.com
John Yoo wrote legal briefs for the Bush-Cheney regime to justify torturing prisoners who were held for years without charges. According to the International Red Cross, over 100 prisoners died in these secret torture sessions. ...
Kimo Crossman Please promote this great free SF conference on your website!!
Source: www.ce9.uscourts.gov
A half-day conference focusing on the changing nature of the news media and its coverage of the federal courts, San Francisco 11/4/09
National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
We will have our membership meeting/election on October 20th from 5:30 - 7:30 PM at the San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), Latino/Hispanic Community Room A.
Our meeting will include a presentation by special guests:
Assemblymember Bill Monning
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi and
Jennifer ...Friendenbach from the Coalition on Homelessness.
They will discuss the effects of budget cuts on services for low-income California residents at all levels of government.
It is also the last opportunity to vote in our membership-wide election. Election details are available by clicking here: http://www.nlgsf.org/news/view.php?id=12
Our meeting will include a presentation by special guests:
Assemblymember Bill Monning
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi and
Jennifer ...Friendenbach from the Coalition on Homelessness.
They will discuss the effects of budget cuts on services for low-income California residents at all levels of government.
It is also the last opportunity to vote in our membership-wide election. Election details are available by clicking here: http://www.nlgsf.org/news/view.php?id=12
Discussion at the Chapter's 2009 Membership Meeting & Election
Time:5:30PM Tuesday, October 20th
Location:San Francisco Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Community Room A
Berkeley Law Students to Launch Torture Accountability Initiative. Category: News Updates from The B
Source: www.berkeleydailyplanet.com
The East Bay's Independent Newspaper for berkeley albany oakland emeryville kensington piedmont el cerrito richmond montclair
National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter A great article on Supervisor Campos. He will be speaking at Progressive Lawyering Day on October 3rd!
Source: www.ebar.com
Supervisor David Campos, the board's openly gay freshman member, has proven to be a wild card among the political body's six-member progressive majority since his swearing-in 10 months ago.
National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Come and meet attorneys and legal workers practicing in a variety of fields! Food and libations will be provided.
This event will give law student members a chance to meet students from neighboring law schools who are committed to working on the same issues and attorneys who’ve built careers in progressive lawyering. Oh..., and did we mention
the margaritas?
Friday, October 23, 2009
6 - 9 PM
Annual Mentorship Cocktail Party at David Weintraub’s home, 5582 Lawton Avenue in Oakland
To get there, take BART to Rockridge Station, walk two blocks south on College Avenue (towards the restaurants Cactus and Oliveto), and at the Pasta Pomodoro make a left on Lawton.
Students, if you have a mentor, please personally invite him or her!Read More
This event will give law student members a chance to meet students from neighboring law schools who are committed to working on the same issues and attorneys who’ve built careers in progressive lawyering. Oh..., and did we mention
the margaritas?
Friday, October 23, 2009
6 - 9 PM
Annual Mentorship Cocktail Party at David Weintraub’s home, 5582 Lawton Avenue in Oakland
To get there, take BART to Rockridge Station, walk two blocks south on College Avenue (towards the restaurants Cactus and Oliveto), and at the Pasta Pomodoro make a left on Lawton.
Students, if you have a mentor, please personally invite him or her!Read More
Time:6:00PM Friday, October 23rd
Location:NLGSF Board Member David Weintraub’s Home
Darin Conley
I would like to get involved with National Lawyers Guild! I am a 2L at USF and actively seek to end all forms of oppression, advocate for all people in need (especially people of color, those in poverty and those from the LGBTQQI community) and will stop at nothing to see an end to racism, sexism and other sensleess fo...rms of oppresion. Let me know how I can be a part of the board or an ative member either at USF or in the Bay area. Thank youRead More
National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
10:00am Registration/Free Breakfast
10:30-12:00 2 Panels: Transgender Advocacy & SF Police Interrogation of Immigrant Youth feat. SF Supervisor David Campos
12:00-1:00 Free Lunch
1:00-2:30 2 Panels: Alien Tort Claims Act & Everything You Wanted to Know About Fellowships
3:00-4:30 Key Note Speaker John Burris (attorney for ...the family of Oscar Grant)
4:30-6:00 Reception with free food/drinks
CLE Credit available for both afternoon panelsRead More
10:30-12:00 2 Panels: Transgender Advocacy & SF Police Interrogation of Immigrant Youth feat. SF Supervisor David Campos
12:00-1:00 Free Lunch
1:00-2:30 2 Panels: Alien Tort Claims Act & Everything You Wanted to Know About Fellowships
3:00-4:30 Key Note Speaker John Burris (attorney for ...the family of Oscar Grant)
4:30-6:00 Reception with free food/drinks
CLE Credit available for both afternoon panelsRead More
Liberty and Justice for All
Time:10:00AM Saturday, October 3rd
Location:UC Hastings
Russell
Please join us for a night of decadent vegan desserts, drinks, silent
auction and a raffle to raise much needed defense funds for 4 local
individuals who are facing Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act charges.
Check the websites below for information about this ongoing and important case.
Friday August 28th, 8pm
1884 Market Str...eet @ Laguna
San Francisco
Auction/Raffle - Desserts/Drinks
$5 - $20 sliding scale
Please contact us if you have anything you would like to donate for this
event at info@aeta4.org.
We will have some amazing items up for silent auction and raffle from
vegan companies, artists, bakeries, restaurants, and more!
More information is available at www.aeta4.org and http://www.myspace.com/aeta4Read More
auction and a raffle to raise much needed defense funds for 4 local
individuals who are facing Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act charges.
Check the websites below for information about this ongoing and important case.
Friday August 28th, 8pm
1884 Market Str...eet @ Laguna
San Francisco
Auction/Raffle - Desserts/Drinks
$5 - $20 sliding scale
Please contact us if you have anything you would like to donate for this
event at info@aeta4.org.
We will have some amazing items up for silent auction and raffle from
vegan companies, artists, bakeries, restaurants, and more!
More information is available at www.aeta4.org and http://www.myspace.com/aeta4Read More
Source: www.aeta4.org
Radix Media Collective has designed this poster as a fundraiser for the AETA4, four friends and activists who are being tried as “terrorists” for their alleged involvement in protesting animal cruelty in Santa Cruz and Berkeley. ...
Source: www.berkeleydailyplanet.com
The East Bay's Independent Newspaper for berkeley albany oakland emeryville kensington piedmont el cerrito richmond montclair
Source: www.zcommunications.org
Doris "Dobby" Brin Walker, the first woman president of the National Lawyers Guild, died on August 13 at the age of 90. Doris was a brilliant lawyer and a tenacious defender of human rights. The only woman ...
National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
The San Francisco Bay Area National Lawyers Guild (“NLG”) Chapter’s Anti-Racism Committee and The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC) are happy to announce:
A workshop series on Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression
on four alternating Tuesdays this fall (September 8th, September 22nd, October 6th and October 20th) from 6:3...0pm to 9pm. Geared toward lawyers, legal workers, law students, and legal activists. In the interest of continuity and building community, we strongly encourage participants to attend all four classes.
CLE credit: We are offering credits in Legal Ethics and Elimination of Bias.
Location: East Bay Community Law Center’s Neighborhood Justice Clinic, 3130 Shattuck Ave. @ Woolsey, Berkeley, CA (near Ashby BART)
Cost: Sliding scale depending on income (discount for NLG members) - $10-$60 per class; no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Light beverages (with caffeine!) and snacks will be provided.
If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please fill out this brief survey, and the organizers will be in touch with more details: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7O
Goals and Outline of the Workshop
The class series fuses cutting-edge critical legal theory on intersectionality, multiple consciousness, multi-dimensional analysis, interracial justice and critical race praxis, with popular education techniques.
We seek to:
- Reframe the discourse on “elimination of bias” and “ethics” in the law.
- Build a community of interracial justice advocates with a
- Develop a shared analysis of white supremacy and other forms of racism (e.g., anti-semitism, orientalism and nativism)
- Understand how racial oppression and privilege interact with the other dimensions of power and identity in the US and beyond (e.g., gender, sexuality, class, ability, age, citizenship, religion, etc.)
Four Sessions, 2 to 2.5 hours each:
Session 1: Introductions, concepts, and a reflection on self-identity, how race and the law relate to my identity and my family background. Creating shared definitions
Session 2: Being anti-racist in my own practice.
Session 3: Changing things within the organization where I work.
Session 4: Changing the area of law where I practice.
Each session will incorporate:
Issues of framing: Building common framework for discussion
Substantive issues: Content, analysis, theory, models, and definitions to discuss and analyze anti-racism in the law, in our practice and in society.
Reflection: How do I fit in, how does this relate to my life, relating individuals, communities, legal community and organizations we are in and part of to substantive discussion, individual and group dynamics within organizations and society.
Tools and Strategies for Action and Praxis: Concrete steps people can take, coming out of the interactive process of the class (flowing from the reflective portion & substantive discussion).Read More
A workshop series on Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression
on four alternating Tuesdays this fall (September 8th, September 22nd, October 6th and October 20th) from 6:3...0pm to 9pm. Geared toward lawyers, legal workers, law students, and legal activists. In the interest of continuity and building community, we strongly encourage participants to attend all four classes.
CLE credit: We are offering credits in Legal Ethics and Elimination of Bias.
Location: East Bay Community Law Center’s Neighborhood Justice Clinic, 3130 Shattuck Ave. @ Woolsey, Berkeley, CA (near Ashby BART)
Cost: Sliding scale depending on income (discount for NLG members) - $10-$60 per class; no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Light beverages (with caffeine!) and snacks will be provided.
If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please fill out this brief survey, and the organizers will be in touch with more details: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7O
Goals and Outline of the Workshop
The class series fuses cutting-edge critical legal theory on intersectionality, multiple consciousness, multi-dimensional analysis, interracial justice and critical race praxis, with popular education techniques.
We seek to:
- Reframe the discourse on “elimination of bias” and “ethics” in the law.
- Build a community of interracial justice advocates with a
- Develop a shared analysis of white supremacy and other forms of racism (e.g., anti-semitism, orientalism and nativism)
- Understand how racial oppression and privilege interact with the other dimensions of power and identity in the US and beyond (e.g., gender, sexuality, class, ability, age, citizenship, religion, etc.)
Four Sessions, 2 to 2.5 hours each:
Session 1: Introductions, concepts, and a reflection on self-identity, how race and the law relate to my identity and my family background. Creating shared definitions
Session 2: Being anti-racist in my own practice.
Session 3: Changing things within the organization where I work.
Session 4: Changing the area of law where I practice.
Each session will incorporate:
Issues of framing: Building common framework for discussion
Substantive issues: Content, analysis, theory, models, and definitions to discuss and analyze anti-racism in the law, in our practice and in society.
Reflection: How do I fit in, how does this relate to my life, relating individuals, communities, legal community and organizations we are in and part of to substantive discussion, individual and group dynamics within organizations and society.
Tools and Strategies for Action and Praxis: Concrete steps people can take, coming out of the interactive process of the class (flowing from the reflective portion & substantive discussion).Read More
4-Part Series with CLE Credit
Time:6:30PM Tuesday, September 8th
Location:East Bay Community Law Center’s Neighborhood Justice Clinic
