HOME
ABOUT US
EVENTS
CONTACT
NEWS
RESOURCES
PROGRAMS
COMMITEES
THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD is a national non-profit legal and political organization of lawyers, legal workers, law students and jailhouse lawyers. We represent progressive political movements, using the law to protect human rights above property interests and to attain social justice.
The Conference is designed to provide legal information and updates concerning and relevant to the NLG Far West Region and its members. The Far West region includes California, Nevada and Hawaii. The Conference will include panels and workshops with topics on current radical legal and progressive issues, and is intended to be useful to NLG attorneys, law students, and legal workers, as well as the larger progressive community. Workshop informatioin coming soon! TJSL is a wheelchair accessible space. www.tjsl.edu
This year Far West NLG members will be hosted by the San Diego Chapter and community. Please find more information listed below and stay tuned for updates. Also, if you haven't already found us on Facebook, please follow the link below for more information and to let us know you will be attending!
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) was founded in 1937 as an association of progressive lawyers and jurists who believed that they had a major role to play in the reconstruction of legal values to emphasize human rights over property rights. The Guild is the oldest and most extensive network of public interest and human rights activists working within the legal system.
SAN DIEGO CHAPTER
The founders of the San Diego Chapter were John Porter, Mary Harvey, Ted Bumer, Judy DiGennaro, and Alex Landon. They had their first formal meeting at John Stephens' house in January 1971. Charles Garry came down from San Francisco and was the guest speaker at the meeting. The five of them were involved with the ACLU Legal Panel. Judy and Alex were law students at the time. John Porter was a long time Guild member. Alex spent the Summer of 1970 working for the Los Angeles Selective Service and Military Legal Panel under guild member Bill Smith. Alex attended Guild meetings that Summer, and when he returned to school in the Fall, he began a student group at USD as part of the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council. John, Mary, Ted, Judy, and Alex met a few times and agreed that it was time to have a Guild Chapter in San Diego. They subsequently contacted a number of attorneys and law students and had their first event. The Guild provided a broader perspective in doing political work and using the law to relate to various progressive causes and groups in the community.
"Praesent vel pede in dui blandit volutpat.Vestib ulum non magna Fusce augue tellus adipiscing a rutrum rutrum tincidunt "
See the home page for all the info regarding the 2011 FAR WEST CONFERENCE.
Stay tuned, more to come!
Hasmik Geghamyan:
Chapter Coordinator
sdnlgadmin_gmail.com
Kate Yavenditti:
kateyav_cox.net
The National Lawyers Guild National Office can be reached at:
132 Nassau Street, Rm. 922
New York, NY 10038
Ph. (212) 679-5100
Fax (212) 679-2811
"The SDMCP is an organization of vets and other people; we work with active duty folks and their families who are having problems within the Military. We can provide you with information, experience, and support that will enable you to know what civil rights you still have, even while in the Military. We can also help people apply for discharges based on Conscientious Objection, Hardship and Dependency or others. If you need an Attorney, Doctor or Clergy not affiliated with the Military we can refer you to one. We are not, in any way, connected with the Military." contact: sdmcp.org
San Diego National Lawyers Guild Mentorship Program
If you are a lawyer in the San Diego area and would like to be a mentor, please email:
Please include the following information in your email:
Name:
Firm/Organization:
Address:
Phone:
E-mail:
Areas of Practice or Specialty:
Number of Years in Practice:
Law School Attended:
Guild Involvement:
The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC) of the National Lawyer's Guild (NLG) is an alliance of law students, legal workers, attorneys and other people of color within the NLG community.
The necessity of such an organization is borne from the historical context of the capitalist United States where economic prowess is dependent on the furthered and continued subjugation of people of color, women, the poor, queers and other oppressed people. We are dedicated to fostering and supporting the growth and empowerment of all people of color, particularly within the organization of the NLG.
Membership is open to all members of the NLG community who self-identify as people of color. There will be no arbitrary exclusion from membership on the basis of sexuality, religion, gender, gender presentation or identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.
The Labor & Employment Committee of the National Lawyers' Guild
includes lawyers, law students, legal workers, and worker representatives. It serves as a liaison between the Guild and legal organizations that represent organized labor and workers. As well, the L&EC works directly with organized labor and other organizations that represent workers. The Committee collaborates with the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee [LCC], the National Employment Law Association [NELA] , and other professional legal associations on the national and local level. The L&EC also works closely with and supports the Guild's Sugar Law Center for the Economic and Social Justice [Sugar Law Center] to improve conditions in poor and working communities.
Friday, 7:00PM - 9:00PM (Meet and Greet with current and former NLG Presidents David Gespass and Marjorie Cohn at Ant Hill Collective)
Saturday, 8:30AM - 5:45PM (Regional Conference at Thomas Jefferson School of Law)
Saturday, 7:30PM - 11:30PM (Party at Prosperity Hive Community Center)
Sunday - 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM (Maquiladora Tour, Tijuana)
Address &Directions for TJSL:
1155 Island Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101. Driving: Taking I-5 south exit on 10th Ave. (exit 16). Continue on 10th until Island Ave. Then make a left. Destination will be on the left. You may park inside the parking garage on 11th for free. Airport: Take the #992 bus to downtown, get off at 11th ave., turn right on 11th (south) until Island Ave. Bus Station (Greyhound): Walk 4 blocks East to C St. & 3rd. Take Orange Line trolley towards Gillespie Field. Get off at Park & Market stop. TJSL is across the street. Train Station (Amtrak): Take the Orange Line trolley towards Gillespie Field. Get off at Park & Market stop. TJSL is across the street and is a wheelchair accessible space.
Friday Night Meet and Greet:
Join us at the Ant Hill Collective, an activist housing community and home of guild member, Andrea Carter. This is a gathering of community members and conference attendees with NLG Presidents past and present Marjorie Cohn and David Gespass. Refreshments will be served.
Address and Directions: 335 27th St., San Diego, CA 92102. Via bus: Walk 1 block north to Market St. Take the #5 bus heading east. Get off just past 27th. Walk 2 blocks south back towards Island. Destination will be on your left. Driving or biking: Go one block north to Market St. Continue east on Market until 27th. Go 2 blocks south back towards Island. Destination will be on your left.
Saturday night Party:
Great gathering of community activists and NLG-supporters held at the Prosperity Hive in East Village, a community and grassroots activist establishment. The party will include performances by poets and musicians, speakers, drinks, food y mas!
www.prosperity-hive.com click HERE to view flyer
Address and Directions: 740 13th St. #503, San Diego, CA 92101From TJSL, Walk east to 13th St. and then north between E and F. Dial 010 on the box left of the door to be buzzed into the Hive. Or, call (619) 779-1944 to announce your arrival. The Hive is on the top of the Art Center on the east side of the New School of Architecture in East Village, Downtown San Diego. The Hive is a wheelchair-accessible space.
Tijuana maquiladora tour : Canelled, bummer, I know, but check out this MAP OF RADICAL HISTORY IN SAN DIEGO!! click here
Comunity Housing
contact: Justin Hewgill
Volunteer Opportunities
contact: Renee Sanchez
farwestrvp_nlg.org
Hasmik Geghamyan
Transportation
contact: Andrea Carter
carter.law_gmail.com
jhewgill_gmail.com
Rebecca Rojas
rebeccatrojas_gmail.com
Tabling We still have tables available for groups looking to table at the conference. Price: $25. Groups may share or seek hardship waivers. Contact Antoinette Gonzalez for more info.
gonzalal_tjsl.edu
NLGs : San Diego Regional Conference, June 24-26, 2011 :
HOTEL AND HOUSING INFORMATION
PLEASE RESERVE YOUR ROOM ASAP. These rooms are part of blocks
that we have been able to acquire. However, as we do not have deep financial backing,
we are going to have to cancel the block (and possibly the group rate) at the hotels at
various cancellation dates to avoid incurring liability for our local chapter. So please
call the hotels and reserve your room soon. The general cut-off date for block
reservations and some group rates is June 3, although some locations have later
cancellation dates. Similarly if you prefer to do the co-housing please advice us soon, as
this will give us a greater idea of how many people will be seeking housing
commercially.
If you would like to book a hotel room elsewhere, please go to hotelworkersrising.org for
the list of union-supported hotels in San Diego.
Little Italy Inn Bed and Breakfast
505 West Grape St
San Diego, CA 92101
Rate: $99 shared bath, $119 private bath
Telephone: (800) 518-9930/ (619)-230-1600
Call to make reservations, state you are with the National Layers Guild or the NLG.
This is a very nice bed and breakfast, in Little Italy, a nice neighborhood of down town. I
recommend this place. This place is an neighborhood of down town that is not a
comfortable walking distance from the convention site. However, it is walking distance
to a trolley stop. I imagine this will be a fast trolley ride, as you are just going from one
end of down town to another.
Walk 8 blocks (small blocks) to the County Center/Little Italy trolley stop. Take the Blue
Line toward San Ysidro. Get off at Park and Market, walk to 11th and Island.
West Park Inn
1840 4th Avenue,
Rate: $109 (full bed); $119 (queen)
Telephone: (619) 236-1600
