NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC
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Mission Statement
The National Lawyers Guild Foundation is the 501(c)3 arm of the National Lawyers Guild. Founded in 1937 as the first racially integrated bar association, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is the oldest and most extensive network of social justice activists working within the legal system. The NLG’s mission is to use law for the people, uniting lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers to function as an effective force in the service of the people to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests. The NLG has provided legal support to just about every social change protest movement over the past 80 years — from striking autoworkers in the 1930s to 1960s-era civil rights and antiwar activists to today’s Black Lives Matter and anti-administration uprisings.
About This Cause
Since the founding of the NLG in 1937 as the first racially-integrated bar association, Guild members have been at the forefront of movements for social change. In the early decades of the organization, members organized labor unions, supported New Deal policies, prosecuted Nazis at Nuremberg, helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and pioneered storefront law offices for low-income clients. During the McCarthy era, Guild members represented victims of anti-communist hysteria. In the 1960s, the Guild organized thousands of volunteer lawyers and law students to support the civil rights movement in the South. In the 1970s, Guild members represented Vietnam War draft resisters, antiwar activists, and GIs in Asia who opposed the war. NLG defended FBI-targeted members of the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the Puerto Rican independence movement and helped expose illegal FBI and CIA surveillance, infiltration, and disruption tactics. In the 1980s and ‘90s, NLG published resources on AIDS, represented Central American refugees, advocated for affirmative action, fought welfare reform, and supported living wage campaigns. After 9/11, the Guild mobilized to support Muslim communities and provide assistance to movements against war and U.S. imperialism. More recently, the NLG has supported global justice, environmental, animal rights, and information activists, as well as whistleblowers and people arrested for their participation in the Occupy, Black Lives matter and #NoDAPL movements. The Guild’s first commitment is to progressive structural change to the current political and economic system, emphasizing human rights over property interests. In addition to attorneys, our membership includes legal workers, law students, and jailhouse lawyers. The NLG relies on the generosity of our members and supporters, making us 100% grassroots and member-driven. Our work supports the efforts of communities organizing themselves for social change and self-determination. Our members work in diverse areas of law, including international human rights, labor, racial justice, mass incarceration, immigration, housing, and much more. Guild members are leaders in civil and criminal law, in academia, in legal organizations and in the judiciary. Different sectors of the Guild sponsor CLEs and trainings to advance the skills of our membership. We host regional and national conferences and forums that address the legal and political issues related to our work. The NLG publishes Know Your Rights handbooks in five languages, the quarterly NLG Review law journal, Disorientation and Radical Law Student Manuals for law school chapters, our newsletter Guild Notes, and original reports on issues such as policing, surveillance, and international delegations.