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*