National Lawyers Guild

The newly-released documentary, 13th, focuses on the critical language of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime. The screening will be followed by a discussion, and pizza and beer will be served!

Leaders of local activist group Don’t Shoot Portland, and Portland NLG member/civil rights attorney Ashlee Albies, will discuss recent events surrounding the controversial Portland Police Association contract, which was pushed through City Council with little community oversight and significant opposition. Lunch provided, vegan diets welcome.

The largest prison work strike in U.S. history is happening right now! Come hear from currently (via phone) and formerly incarcerated organizers of the strike in Alabama and Oregon. They’ll be talking about the 13th Amendment, prison slave labor, organizing in the face of severe repercussion, and more! Lunch provided, vegan diets welcome.

Kasia Rutledge of Metropolitan Public Defender/Portland NLG will lead a workshop to help us unpack issues of implicit racial bias and microaggressions, and learn to have dynamic, honest conversations about race. Lunch provided, vegan diets welcome.

Please join the National Lawyers Guild for the Why Race Matters Series. Stop by and say hello!

Defense counsel for key members of Al-Qaeda accused of the 9/11 attacks will be presenting a panel discussion of their experiences representing America’s most notorious defendants.

A good attorney knows to not make assumptions. This rule applies not only to one’s legal work, but also to one’s interactions with colleagues, clients, opposing counsel, judges and others. Thus, learning to recognize and combat unconscious assumptions that one might make is an important part of an attorney’s professional development. Please join us for a professional development workshop on a common manifestation of racial assumptions: microaggressions. Public defender and Portland NLG member, Kasia Rutledge, will help us identify ways in which our interpersonal interactions can perpetuate racism. She will also help us avoid making, or at least not acting on, our unwarranted assumptions.

A good attorney knows to not make assumptions. This rule applies not only to one’s legal work, but also to one’s interactions with colleagues, clients, opposing counsel, judges and others. Thus, learning to recognize and combat unconscious assumptions that one might make is an important part of an attorney’s professional development. Please join us for a professional development workshop on a common manifestation of racial assumptions: microaggressions. Public defender and Portland NLG member, Kasia Rutledge, will help us identify ways in which our interpersonal interactions can perpetuate racism. She will also help us avoid making, or at least not acting on, our unwarranted assumptions.

Join the Lewis & Clark Black Law Students Association (BLSA), Black Student Union, National Lawyers Guild (NLG), and more to honor the Black lives taken by systemic racism and its resulting police brutality and vigilantism.

We will have food, music, speakers, and community building, and will uplift Black voices first and foremost. Please join us in solidarity.

This event is free and open to the public! Bring your friends, and prepare your singing voice to say the names of victims with Don’t Shoot Portland!  The march from Gate 2 of Griswold Stadium parking lot to the Chapel will depart at 6:25pm.

NLG and ACLU present: Federal Public Defender Steven Wax describes his experiences defending Portland Attorney Brandon Mayfield, Guantanamo inmates, and Mohamed Mohamud against terrorism charges within and without our increasingly Kafkaesque criminal justice system. Burrito Bar Lunch will be provided with vegan and vegetarian options.

McCarty Classroom Complex 1 at Noon on Thursday March 19th.

Please join the Native American Law Student Association (NALSA) for a Bingo Night Fundraiser! Each year NALSA helps send a group of passionate students to the Federal Bar Association’s Indian Law Conference. Come enjoy multiple rounds of bingo, prizes, and Indian Tacos! Students, practitioners, staff and guests are encouraged to attend!

Co-Sponsored by NLG, SIEL & LLS.

Coordinator Victor Caal Tzuy will be speaking on behalf of indigenous groups engaging in resistance against the Xalalá Hydroelectric Dam in Guatemala, slated to displace thousands of residents.

Lunch will be served. Join us in Wood Hall, Rm 7!

Week Against the Death Penalty 2013. Join us for a week of events, part of an annual nationwide day of education about and protest of capital punishment.

Check out the book display in the library, and find us tabling in the LRC (Monday-Thursday, 11 am - 1 pm). Also:

Monday 3/4, 12:10 pm, Room 3: Death Penalty Talk with Jeff Ellis,
Tuesday 3/5, 12:10 pm, Room 3: Live from Death Row, call with Kevin Cooper
Wednesday 3/6, 6-7:30 pm, Room 2: Wrongful Convictions Talk with Juan Meléndez and Greg Wilhoit.
Thursday 3/7, 12:10 pm, Room 6: Prisoner Letter Writing
Friday evening: Film Screening

Week Against the Death Penalty 2013. Join us for a week of events, part of an annual nationwide day of education about and protest of capital punishment.

Check out the book display in the library, and find us tabling in the LRC (Monday-Thursday, 11 am - 1 pm). Also:

Monday 3/4, 12:10 pm, Room 3: Death Penalty Talk with Jeff Ellis,
Tuesday 3/5, 12:10 pm, Room 3: Live from Death Row, call with Kevin Cooper
Wednesday 3/6, 6-7:30 pm, Room 2: Wrongful Convictions Talk with Juan Meléndez and Greg Wilhoit.
Thursday 3/7, 12:10 pm, Room 6: Prisoner Letter Writing
Friday evening: Film Screening

Juan Meléndez and Greg Wilhoit, from Witness to Innocence, spent a combined 22+ years on death row for crimes they did not commit. Hear their powerful stories about their journey from death row to freedom. Professor Aliza Kaplan and Professor Tung Yin will provide legal insight on wrongful convictions and the criminal justice system.  

Sponsored by: Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, Oregon Justice Resource Center, American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, Amnesty International USA, National Lawyers Guild. (Wednesday 3/6, 6-7:30 pm, Room 2).

Week Against the Death Penalty 2013. Join us for a week of events, part of an annual nationwide day of education about and protest of capital punishment.

Check out the book display in the library, and find us tabling in the LRC (Monday-Thursday, 11 am - 1 pm). Also:

Monday 3/4, 12:10 pm, Room 3: Death Penalty Talk with Jeff Ellis,
Tuesday 3/5, 12:10 pm, Room 3: Live from Death Row, call with Kevin Cooper
Wednesday 3/6, 6-7:30 pm, Room 2: Wrongful Convictions Talk with Juan Meléndez and Greg Wilhoit.
Thursday 3/7, 12:10 pm, Room 6: Prisoner Letter Writing
Friday evening: Film Screening

Phone Call with Kevin Cooper, Currently on Death Row at California’s San Quentin Prison (Tuesday 3/5, 12:10 pm, Room 3). Bring your questions for this Q&A. Part of the Week Against the Death Penalty. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be served. Sponsored by NLG and ACLU.

Week Against the Death Penalty 2013. Join us for a week of events, part of an annual nationwide day of education about and protest of capital punishment.

Check out the book display in the library, and find us tabling in the LRC (Monday-Thursday, 11 am - 1 pm). Also:

Monday 3/4, 12:10 pm, Room 3: Death Penalty Talk with Jeff Ellis,
Tuesday 3/5, 12:10 pm, Room 3: Live from Death Row, call with Kevin Cooper
Wednesday 3/6, 6-7:30 pm, Room 2: Wrongful Convictions Talk with Juan Meléndez and Greg Wilhoit.
Thursday 3/7, 12:10 pm, Room 6: Prisoner Letter Writing
Friday evening: Film Screening