NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD NORTHEAST REGIONAL CONFERENCE
SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2006
presented by the NYC and Columbia Law School chapters of the National
Lawyers Guild
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
with a free kickin' after party in Drapkin
featuring DJ Thadeaus!
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL - Jerome Green Hall
115th and Amsterdam
* This conference is FREE for students and activists. It is $25 for
lawyers and professionals. For more info or to pre-register, please
visit here*
MORNING WORKSHOPS
* Military Counseling: Counseling Service Members On Their Options
Christine Lombardi, Aaron Frishberg & Tariq Scherfen
* Arresting Dissent: The NYPD from WEF to NOW
Alex Vitale, Martin R. Stolar, Rose Weber & Gideon Oliver
* Workers, Direct Action, & Social Change
Kevin Harrington, Saru Jayaraman & Marina Sitrin
LUNCH WORKSHOP:
* Animal Rights Law: Animal Dignity in a Human World (The Emerging
Jurisprudence of Animal Rights)
Leonard Egert, Nick Cooney & Anthony J. Nocella II
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS:
* Law Student Response to Hurricane Katrina
Adriene Holder, Laila Hlass, Grainne O'Neill & Kesav Wable
* White House Gone Wild: Torture, Arbitrary Detention and Surveillance
in the Era of Executive Tyranny
Gitanjali S. Gutierrez, Shayana Kadidal and Jennifer Van Bergen
* Criminal Justice, Prisoners' Rights, and the End of Parole
Ashanti Alston, Susan Tipograph, Rosa Clemente & Ray Levasseur
(pending approval)
CLOSING PLENARY:
* The Good Fight: Organizing the Progressive Legal Community of the Future
Ralph Shapiro, Liz Fink, Emily Compton, & Kazi Toure
Special guest speaker: Justice Fernando Vegas Torrealba
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SOME INFO ON A FEW OF OUR AMAZING SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS:
Justice Fernando Vegas Torrealba – Supreme Court Justice of Venezuela,
former civil and labor attorney.
Ray Levasseur – one of the "Ohio 7," recently freed political
prisoner, Vietnam veteran. (pending approval)
Gitanjali S. Gutierrez – Center for Constitutional Rights attorney,
among the team that represented Guantanamo detainees in Rasul v. Bush.
Marina Sitrin – activist, author of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular
Power in Argentina.
Kazi Toure – freed political prisoner and founder of the street
security organization Amandla.
Ashanti Alston – former Black Panther, freed political prisoner, and
co-chair of the Jericho Movement to Free Political Prisoners.
Rosa Clemente – Hip Hop activist and founder of "Know Thyself Productions."
Anthony J. Nocella II – Editor of Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?
Reflections on the Liberation of Animals.
Marty Stolar – president of the NYC National Lawyers Guild and
attorney for hundreds of demonstrators arrested at the Republican
National Convention.
This conference is FREE for students and activists. It is $25 for
lawyers and professionals. For more info or to pre-register, please
visithere*
