sweet, lawyers to volunteer to defend those that protest rnc convention

[freedomonk]

http://www.nlgnyc.org/RNC.html

The National Lawyers Guild, founded in 1937, is an association of lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers dedicated to importance of human rights.

The Mass Defense Committee of the NLG-NYC Chapter, which has been providing legal observers and lawyers for activists since 1968, is proud to offer its depth of experience and knowledge to activists organizing events surrounding the Republican National Convention this summer in New York City. We can be contacted at:

Mass Defense Committee
National Lawyers Guild, New York City Chapter
143 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
[phone]
[phone] (fax)
[e-mail]

The Committee is coordinating its efforts to provide RNC Mass Defense legal support with the People’s Law Collective, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the New York Civil Liberties Union.

ATTORNEYS
We are actively recruiting lawyers to provide pro-bono (free) legal representation. Ideally, we will find enough pro-bono lawyers to represent everyone who may be arrested at protests during the Convention. However, given the possibility of unprecedented numbers of arrests, we cannot guarantee we will be able to recruit enough lawyers to volunteer. That is why the Guild is also recruiting lawyers who would be willing to provide legal representation at “low bono” (substantially reduced) rates. In light of this, activists may want to make some contingency legal defense fundraising plans.

If you are a lawyer and are interested in helping, but you do not have criminal defense experience, we will be offering CLE trainings this summer. Fill out and send us the our Attorney Questionnaire (PDF format) and watch our Calendar for upcoming trainings.

i hope these protests turn out to be a huge embarassment for the republican party, thousands of people throwing rocks, dancing in the street...
come on, they try to organize a convention in one of most democratic cities in the countries, they deserve it...
go back to texas

[Valerie5555]

1. If some of them happen to be WTC Survivors / Victims Families , I wonder

if a group like "Peaceful Tommorrows" would set up a "WTC Survivor / Victim's Family Defence Fund" nonetheless.

[freedomonk]

3. huh

you lost me

[Valerie5555]

5. Let me explain or I can see it now, they might get arrested for trying to

form a human chain around Ground Zero or something, in an effort to keep Bushie from trying to get himself "coronated" there.

[freedomonk]

2. may be

john edwards can convince some of his friends to help (anonymously of course)

[Valerie5555]

6. Wondered what area of law the Clintons specialized in since they were

lawyers too before they entered politics.

[Bandit]

9. Guess what even Republicans use "Trial Lawyers" Jim Baker ring any

bells? What hypocrites republicans are don't you think? :shrug:

[Massacure]

4. Tee hee hee, I like this.

:D

[Pallas180]

7. PLEASE

" thousands of people throwing rocks, dancing in the street..."

Please don;t encourage anybody to throw rocks, run into the streets
or do anything threatening.

#1. They have tremendous amounts of cops in riot gear who will beat
the hell out of anyone who does anything like that, and bystanders
also will get hurt.

#2. It will give them an excuse to call down martial law before the
elections and stay in power.

WE DONT NEED TO GIVE THEM A REASON TO CALL DOWN MARTIAL LAW.

If you don't believe me, look for the thread on "What Martial Law
Looks Like In America" on General Discussion.

Further down in the thread are pictures of the guard, cops, riot cops,
horses, tanks, barbed wire, machine guns.....

if you throw anything, you'll deserve what you get, but the people nearby won;t deserve what you bring down.

Please think about it.

[freedomonk]

8. why

#1. They have tremendous amounts of cops in riot gear who will beat
the hell out of anyone who does anything like that, and bystanders
also will get hurt.

if there is a big riot in which couple of thousand people are involved, wouldn't pictures of police in riot gear and fire trucks hosing people down completely overshadow republican convention and all the speeches there, and wouldn't that be a good thing?

lol, why would anybody call a martial law of a huge country because of a riot in a single city, i doubt american people will stand for it, even most bush supporters won't.