1.5 CLE Hours for General (Topical content, skills training, law practice management) through the State Bar of CA (a certificate will be emailed after completion)
Sponsored by the NLG International Committee & the NLG San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Looking at the cases of Afghanistan, Cuba and Haiti, this workshop will look at the actions of the Biden Administration and its role in furthering imperialist policies. In addition, the workshop will explore the role of institutions of liberalism in advancing imperialism and undermining true democracy through “humanitarian” responses and international processes. We will investigate the potential role for the NLG, in partnership with internationalist organizations, in advancing social, political and economic rights and challenging human rights violations and crises, including authoritarian regimes, military occupations, exploitation of land and labor and environmental destruction.
Panelists:
Suzanne Adely is the incoming President of the National Lawyers Guild and the co-director of the Food Chain Workers Alliance. She is a Bureau member of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, co-founder of the Arab Workers Resource Center, and an organizer with Labor for Palestine, Al-Awda NY and the US Palestinian Community Network.
Pierre Labossiere is Co-Founder of the Haiti Action Committee (HAC) and the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF) established in the Bay Area in 1991 and 2004 respectively. Working with Haiti's grassroots movement that is engaged in the struggle for justice and democracy, HAC and HERF provide information regarding conditions on the ground, assist refugees and support community-based initiatives and institutions working for the liberation and the rebuilding of Haiti.
Azadeh Shahshahani (Legal & Advocacy Director, Project South) has worked for a number of years in the U.S. South to protect and defend immigrants and Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian communities. She previously served as president of the National Lawyers Guild and as National Security/Immigrants’ Rights Project Director with the ACLU of Georgia. Azadeh serves on the Advisory Council of the American Association of Jurists and on the Board of Directors of Defending Rights and Dissent. Azadeh has served as a trial monitor in Turkey, an election monitor in Venezuela and Honduras, and as a member of the jury in people’s tribunals on Mexico, the Philippines, and Brazil. She has also participated in international fact-finding delegations to post-revolutionary Tunisia and Egypt as well as a delegation focused on the situation of Palestinian political prisoners. She is the author or editor of several human rights reports, including a 2017 report titled “Imprisoned Justice: Inside Two Georgia Immigrant Detention Centers,” as well as law review articles and book chapters focused on racial profiling, immigrants’ rights, and surveillance of Muslim-Americans.
Art Heitzer is a civil rights and employment attorney in Milwaukee, WI, co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild Cuba Subcommittee, and recipient of the NLG's Debra Evenson Venceremos International Award to honor outstanding international legal work, legal solidarity, international advocacy, and justice beyond borders, He is a founder and leader of the Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba; has visited Cuba as part of NLG Labor & Employment, sister city, sister church and other groups; and has written on related subjects in the NLG Review its predecessor the Guild Practitioner, and the Encyclopedia of the American Left (3rd edition, 2022).
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