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RNC MASS DEFENSE IN NEW YORK... (NLG to defend anarchists at Republican Convention in NYC
National Lawyer's Guild - NYC Chapter ^ | unknown

Posted on 07/12/2004 6:33:46 PM PDT by sc2_ct

The National Lawyers Guild, founded in 1937, is an association of lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers dedicated to the proposition that human rights are more important than property 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
(212) 679-6018
(212)679-6178 (fax)
nycmassdefense@riseup.net

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 interested in helping out, please download our Attorney Questionnaire (PDF format), and mail or fax it to:

RNC Mass Defense
National Lawyers Guild, New York City Chapter
143 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Fax: (212) 679-6178

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nlgnyc.org ...


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anarchists; nlg; rncconvention
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To: KingNo155
'hu8man rights are more important than property rights"? How can you have human rights without property rights?

In the Marxist wordview, which these sorts adhere to, ALL property belongs to "the State", a term which they oh-so-cleverly never really get around to defining, although you can be prosecuted, incarcerated, indeed, even executed for comitting crimes against, or being an enemy of. They don't dare tell you that their mythical "State" consists of nothing more than an updated version of Midieval robber barons, and that their "new order" is nothing more than "might makes right", all over again...

the infowarrior

161 posted on 07/13/2004 11:32:03 AM PDT by infowarrior (TANSTAAFL)
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To: wtc911

To say that they got it backwards would be to understate.
^^^


Let us hope that NYC "crowd controllers" are a step ahead this year. I think there have been great advances in protection strategy in the past 10 years.


162 posted on 07/13/2004 11:52:13 AM PDT by maica (Hitlary says; "We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good"...)
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To: sc2_ct

I feel like I should go to New York with my sling shot tofight for our side. LOL! I know it's going to be a mess, but do they see how petulant and childish they make themselves look?
What a bunch of losers!


163 posted on 07/13/2004 12:24:57 PM PDT by TX Bluebonnet
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To: wtc911; cyborg; Oschisms
A communist front group stirring up trouble for the upcoming convention?

Shouldn't "Jimmy from Brooklyn" be on the case?

164 posted on 07/13/2004 1:32:41 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("Are you a Mexi-can, or a Mexi-can't? Well, which one are you?")
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To: sc2_ct

Small video cameras can be hidden in your clothing?


165 posted on 07/13/2004 1:49:52 PM PDT by Milligan
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To: sc2_ct; hchutch
These people are out of control. Anyone have any good ideas on how to counter the chaos they seem so intent on bringing to our convention?

If they go as far as their rhetoric indicates, I believe that one will be able to make a case for imposing NATO Rule 7.62 on them.

(+)

166 posted on 07/13/2004 1:52:42 PM PDT by Poohbah (Technical difficulties have temporarily interrupted this tagline. Please stand by.)
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To: sc2_ct

Even if the police catch them and put them in jail, the lawyers will give them a "get out of jail free" card.

The protestors (nearby Waco near Dubya ranch) were all set free recently.


167 posted on 07/13/2004 2:06:15 PM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: windchime

This could be an important link to the Kerry campaign. We should play up the ties between MoveOn/the Lawyers Guild/ the Kerry campaign and maybe Michael Moore. Oh, I forgot the Communist Party.


168 posted on 07/13/2004 4:52:37 PM PDT by Eva
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To: SendShaqtoIraq

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a1e6b7134bf.htm

this might help start your quest for knowledge...I try to look at it, but I get so caught up reading, that I don't try out these little tricks... :)


169 posted on 07/13/2004 5:29:59 PM PDT by bitt (take a week off from the local rag - and tell them why!)
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To: jmc813

If he had known FR's l/Libertarians,he would have quickly changed his mind. LOL


170 posted on 07/13/2004 5:30:35 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: wtc911
No,the reaction to the protesters would still be the same,no matter which convention they demonstrate at.That's the whole point! The Dems are always identified with the protesters,whether or not they or the GOPers are the ones being protested.Mull that over and then we'll talk again.
171 posted on 07/13/2004 6:17:17 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Uncle Jaque

Great post!


172 posted on 07/13/2004 6:24:31 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: sc2_ct

...dedicated to the proposition that human rights are more important than property rights.

What does this even mean? Aren't property rights human rights? It's giving me a headache, the tortured logic involved in thinking this way!

Can't we just put them all on a raft and point them toward Cuba? They can get plenty of what Castro calls human rights there with out the inconvienence of property rights. Or even human rights. See? It loops back on itself!

173 posted on 07/13/2004 8:15:05 PM PDT by Duke Nukum ([T]he only true mystery is that our very lives are governed by dead people.)
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To: Eva; Fedora

"This could be an important link to the Kerry campaign. We should play up the ties between MoveOn/the Lawyers Guild/ the Kerry campaign and maybe Michael Moore. Oh, I forgot the Communist Party."

I agree.  Exposure of their connections before the event might help LEO and enough publicity may diminish their activity.  It wouldn't surprise me to learn that MM is 'set up' to do a film about this.  His activities in the area would bear watching.  (It would also not surprise me if, since their plans have been publicized, they staged a little something at the dem convention.)

I don't know how many of these links still work....they seem to disappear as they get attention.  They are all connected.

New Arissa Link

Google - Craig Rosebraugh + Leslie James Pickering

Craig Rosebraugh and Leslie James Pickering - Founders Arissa- former ELF media spokesmen

Craig Rosebraugh and Leslie James Pickering - Founders Arissa- former ELF media spokesmen

Two former spokesmen for the radical Earth Liberation Front said Monday they are giving that up to form what they say is a "new revolutionary organization" called Arissa.

About Arissa  - Excerpts:  The primary goal of Arissa is to create a political and social revolution in the United States of America.  We believe that none of the single-issue problems -  whether in the human, environmental, or animal categories - can be resolved until a political structure is put into place to allow for an atmosphere of change.  Arissa will have reached its goal when that revolution occurs.

Our Arissa Media Services Department was formed in late 2003 to provide necessary media relations for those conducting revolutionary actions in the United States.

 

Check out the links and info from posts on this thread:

98 posted on 04/07/2004 8:02:08 PM EDT by windchime (Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))

105 posted on 04/07/2004 8:35:45 PM EDT by Fedora

174 posted on 07/14/2004 1:46:55 AM PDT by windchime (Where in the world is Joseph C. Wilson?)
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To: nopardons
No,the reaction to the protesters would still be the same,no matter which convention they demonstrate at.That's the whole point! The Dems are always identified with the protesters,whether or not they or the GOPers are the ones being protested.

"Mull that over and then we'll talk again."

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Presumptious to assume that that angle had not occurred to me. The nets control most of what a significant % of the American public sees, witness Iraq coverage. If they choose to do so they can make the NYPD and any other crowd control unit (NG) look like the proto-typical jack-booted thugs. And they can do it with Bush/Cheney posters in the background while invoking the "constitution trashing" elements of the "Bush" Patriot Act. I'm not so naive as to believe that the NY based liberal press would not do this.

In support of this theory...an earlier post on this same thread had a freeper with one foot already out of the country because of how he perceived NYPD outside his hotel when he visited a while ago. He saw it as a step toward a police state, and he's on our side.

175 posted on 07/14/2004 4:35:12 AM PDT by wtc911 (moderate islam is the swamp where evil festers)
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To: nopardons
If he had known FR's l/Libertarians,he would have quickly changed his mind. LOL

Good one. :-)

176 posted on 07/14/2004 9:31:43 AM PDT by jmc813 (Help save a life - www.marrow.org)
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To: windchime
Thanks for the ping! On the NLG and Kerry, one thing I will be mentioning in a forthcoming article is that when Kerry joined the VVAW he was working for the campaign of Robert Drinan, who was who was the NLG national vice president in 1968:

The War Called Peace: The Soviet Peace Offensive:

Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP)-777 U.N. Plaza, Fifth Floor, New York, N.Y. 10017 [212/ 887-8962], appeared late in 1981 circulating a "Statement on the Illegality of Nuclear Weapons" which has no condemnation or even mention of Soviet nuclear weapons and targeting policy, but which is aimed specifically at the United States. LCNP's positions closely parallel those of the Soviet "peace" fronts. LCNP's officers and initial members of its consultative council include a number of activists from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), the U.S. section of the Soviet-controlled International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL). . .Secretary and executive director is Elliott L. Meyrolwitz and LCNP's treasurer is Robert L. Boehm, CCR's chairperson. The consultative council is listed as including Richard Barnet, IPS and formerly active with the Lawyers Committee on U.S. Policy toward Vietnam (LCUSPV) which was founded by activists with the IADL, NLG, and National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC), a CPUSA legal action and propaganda front; Ian Brownlie, Oxford University; Francis A. Boyle, University of Illinois; Anthony A. D'Amato, Northwestern University; Robert F. Drinan, Georgetown University and 1968 NLG national vice president. . .

177 posted on 07/14/2004 11:21:01 AM PDT by Fedora (Kerryman, Kerryman, does whatever a ketchup can/Spins a lie, any size, catches wives just like flies)
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To: Liz; backhoe; Interesting Times

Ping to 177.


178 posted on 07/14/2004 11:21:58 AM PDT by Fedora (Kerryman, Kerryman, does whatever a ketchup can/Spins a lie, any size, catches wives just like flies)
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To: Fedora
Nice catch.

If Kerry ever met anyone in the 1970s he considered too far to the left, he didn't mention it to anyone.

179 posted on 07/14/2004 11:35:48 AM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Fedora; Eva
Eva, earlier I accidentally pinged you to an 'unrelated' thread.  The interweaving/overlapping is mind-boggling. 

Fedora, thanks for the great info and please ping me when your article is available.

Leftists Demonstration Plans - DNC/RNC Conventions, Houston, TX. (Barf and Heads-Up Alerts) 

Perspective: Communist Party USA supports John Kerry 

180 posted on 07/14/2004 1:03:18 PM PDT by windchime (Where in the world is Joseph C. Wilson?)
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