Jude Glaubman is always in court at a moments notice helping organize defense, and putting activists at ease with her years of experience, and unbounded compassion. For more information on NLG mass defense work, visit our MDC web page , or email [email protected] . (e.g. The MDC was able to get her representation within hours, and the outcome to her case was favorable. Looking for assistance, resources, or ideas? Ultimately, over thirty people were arrested, and the MDC made sure that everyone who wanted an NLG lawyer had one. For more information, contact Sarah White, Housing Committee co-chair. It was a a tense and frightening day, but the MDC stood strong making sure that there were legal observers on the front lines of this struggle. Membership is open to all members of the NLG community who self-identify as people of color. MDC attorneys Zach Lown and Jim Vita both represented activists that were arrested as part of this action. NPAP does not provide legal representation to victims of law enforcement misconduct. For more information on NLG mass defense work, visit our MDC web page, or email [email protected]. TUPOCC is an alliance of law students, legal workers, attorneys, and other people of color within the NLG. At the meeting, members also spent time connecting in break-out groups, focusing on two key questions: 1) “What can the MDC do to support and contribute to your mass defense work?”; and 2) “What are the recent trends in protest law and practices you think are relevant nationwide?” Members engaged in rich exchanges about the conditions members are facing in different regions, as well as opportunities to brainstorm how the MDC can support members in their work. We continued our great working partnership with the Mass Bail Fund, who made sure that none of our people were without money for bail. The Housing Committee works to advance the principle that housing is a human right. Anti-Sexism Committee The NLG is committed to the dismantling and abolition of all aspects of systems and institutions that support, condone, create, fill, or protect prisons, including jails, police lock ups, juvenile detention facilities, immigration detention centers, involuntary psychiatric treatment centers, and other institutional settings in which people are held against their will. What was clear by the end of that week in court was that the people in our movement, activists and legal workers alike, could not be intimidated into submission, and we are happy to report that while not all cases have been disposed of, we are continuing to get favorable results for our clients. The LO manual was one of the top strategic priorities identified by members at the 2018 Convention (as well as training resources in general), and the MDC SC focused on it throughout the year to bring it about. The Mass Defense Committee (MDC) is a network of lawyers, legal workers, and law students providing legal support for political activists, protesters and movements for social change. The Guild provides assistance and solidarity to movements in the United States and abroad that work for social justice in this increasingly interconnected world. The national committees of the Guild are formed by members who wish to organize around a specific issue. Activists around the state, including folks from Xtinction Rebellion, have been organizing inspiring resistance to destructive energy policy. The Minnesota State Supreme Court issued a similar ruling allowing the use of the necessity defense in the “valve-turner” cases. Students can join for $15. Oh, bother! It is critical to the struggles of our people that they know the MDC is there and has their back at a moments notice. Some past committees that are no longer active include: Committee for Democratic Communications A complete overhaul of this important training resource was years in the making and eagerly awaited by LO training programs nationwide. On December 10th of this year, the MDC is so proud to be accepting the MACDL Presidents award for our continued fight in support of the movement. The cost of joining the Anti-Racism Committee is $12, which can be paid alongside your membership dues. Long-time MDC lawyer Lee Goldstein represented these activists, and all their charges were dismissed. The urgent need for support and solidarity is expected to continue into 2020. other organization, news piece, etc. Litigation Committee. We again partnered with MACDL, and owe a great deal of gratitude to their members for stepping up and making sure we had enough lawyers in Court during the multi-day arraignments. Next Generation Committee We support leadership of queer women, trans people, and people of color with disabilities. Drug Policy Committee The MDC conducted over twenty-five know your rights training sessions around the state, our volunteer lawyers have represented over one hundred people arrested at protests and civil disobedience actions, and we have had legal observers at nearly every left-wing political action in the area. It produces legal training materials as well as self-help guides for service members on topics ranging from dissent and conscientious objection to sexual assault and hazing. Our legal support for environmental activism continued through the many years of resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline, as well as from the earliest days of the #NoDAPL demonstrations at Standing Rock. NLG members have also been actively involved in the resistance to oil and gas pipelines across the country, including Louisiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The Anti-Racism Committee (ARC) strives to make the Guild into an effective anti-racist organization, holding it to the principles on which it was founded. The cost of joining is $40. Visit the TUPOCC page and watch a "Speaking Freely" interview with TUPOCC co-founders! No topics were found here. The Guild opposes aggressive and interventionist military policies, as well as abusive treatment of service members and veterans. The MLTF is a network of attorneys, legal workers and law students working in the areas of military and veterans law and rights. The NLG organizes an annual national Week Against Mass Incarceration (WAMI), supports political prisoners, and shares the voices of our jailhouse lawyer members in the Guild Notes column, “Beyond Bars: Voices from NLG Jailhouse Lawyers.” The Guild has critiqued the obstacles to legal resource prisoners face due to the Prison Ligation Reform Act and explored the role of bond funds in our webinar Bail Funds & Community-Based Strategies. See the Disability Resources list created by the committee! Log In Username: Password: Keep me s… Their success is built upon the membership and tax-deductible contributions of thousands of supporters nationwide. Additions to the manual include sections on dealing with primary and secondary trauma while LOing, challenging the privileges we bring to this work that can negatively affect other NLG members/volunteers and the communities we’re in solidarity with, and performing this crucial role in dangerous situations involving violent white supremacists. The necessity of such an organization is borne from the history of the United States where economic power is dependent on the continued subjugation of people of color, poor people women, queers, and other oppressed people.