People’s Lawyers, Radical Legal Workers, Law Students & Activists! Join us for a conference at Western New England School of Law sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild. How can radical lawyering support radical movements? April 17th — 19th 2015 Springfield, Mass. National Lawyers Guild attorneys and legal workers, fighting for human rights inside and outside the courtroom over the years, including (from top) Bina Ahmad; Haywood Burns & Margaret Burnham with their client Angela Davis; Christian Williams; Liz Fink, Michael Deutsch & Haywood Burns with the Attica Brothers; Johanna Fernandez, Mumia Abu-Jamal & Heidi Boghosian; and an NLG contingent marching against mass incarceration. Speakers will include Azadeh Shahshahani, President of the NLG; Purvi Shah of the Bertha Justice Institute at the Center for Constitutional Rights & Ferguson Legal Defense Committee; Carlton Williams of the Boston Coalition for Police Accountability/Mass ACLU/Mass NLG; Brigitt Keller, Executive Director at National Police Accountability Project; Jennifer Meeropol, Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children; Bina Ahmad, Lauren Gazzola & Rachel Meeropol of the NLG Animal Rights Activism Committee; Holly Richardson Co-Director of Out Now; kt crossman of the NLG Queer Caucus; and Nathan Sheard of Mutant Legal. Nadia Ben-Youssef and Suhad Bishara of Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights, Attorney Jamil Dakwar of the ACLU and Professor Amahl Bishara will speak on the legal rights of Palestinians in Israel. Former political prisoners, including Kazi Toure & Ashanti Alston of the Jericho Movement will speak on prisoner support. Karen “Rudy” Renaud of SEIU Local 888, and Deborah Wright of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys - UAW 2325, will discuss organizing legal workers. Plus a great Saturday night party!
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