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Understanding 9/11NYC Anarchist Bookfair 2008: How the Legal Community has Your Back
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'Know Your Rights and Their Wrongs: How the Legal Community has Your Back' (NYU)
Activists are often familiar with the usual Know Your Rights trainings. So what happens when government repression changes? Is it enough to simply "know your rights? This workshop will provide presentation on recent repressive government tactics using examples such as the Green Scare and the San Francisco 8. The purpose of this training will be to provide attendees a foundation of KYR material and connect this material to more situations than street and protest rights. Expect more than the typical 5th amendment stuff.
Grainne O'Neill lives in New Orleans and works at the public defenders office, The Iron Rail and New Orleans Indymedia. She recently graduated from Columbia Law School, where she was active with the National Lawyers Guild, and was instrumental in starting the Green Scare Hotline. Prior to attending law school she co-founded Jane Doe Books - an anarchafeminist infoshop in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Kamau Karl Franklin is the Racial Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights and a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. He handles a wide variety of cases including criminal, civil and human rights issues. Kamau is the former Legal Program Director of New York City PoliceWatch, a sister project of the San Francisco based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. As part of his work with MXGM, Kamau has worked on works on various issues of concern to the black community including the issue of political prisoners/exiles of the Black Liberation Struggle, a "Cop Watch" program to train community members to use video cameras to monitor local police conduct, in Brooklyn, New York.
Bob Boyle is a member of the Executive Committee of the NLG-NYC and criminal defense attorney specializing in post-conviction and government misconduct litigation. He is the former staff attorney of the NLG's Grand Jury Project, Inc. Bob has represented numerous activists including Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a former leader of the Black Panther Party and target of COINTELPRO who won new trial after 19 years, Osama Awadallah, arrested as a material witness after September 11, 2001. He is currently representing Mohammed Al-Moayad, a Yemeni national lured to Germany in an FBI sting operation and is acting as a consulting attorney on the San Francisco 8 case.
Beth Baltimore is a third year law student at Brooklyn Law School and a member of the National Lawyers Guild New York City Chapter Executive Committee. She worked with Grainne to develop and implement the Green Scare Hotline that is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to assist individuals arrested or subpoenaed for offenses related to environmental or animal activism. It can be reached at 888-NLG-ECOLAW.
JustUs NYC Legal Collective formed in late 2006 to fill a growing need for a grassroots legal support organization. Over the past year, JustUs has worked to write, produce, and distribute Know Your Rights materials for both activists and non-activists. Their materials provide resources to local communities and introduce community members to navigating the legal system.
For info about the upcoming 2011 NYC Anarchist Bookfair (9 April) see: www.anarchistbookfair.net
To contact the NYC Anarchist Book Fair organizing collective to volunteer, submit workshop and tabling applications, make a donation, or get more information, email us at info[at]anarchistbookfair[dot]net
More NYC Anarchist Book Fair archives can be found at www.anarchistbookfair.net/archives
Activists are often familiar with the usual Know Your Rights trainings. So what happens when government repression changes? Is it enough to simply "know your rights? This workshop will provide presentation on recent repressive government tactics using examples such as the Green Scare and the San Francisco 8. The purpose of this training will be to provide attendees a foundation of KYR material and connect this material to more situations than street and protest rights. Expect more than the typical 5th amendment stuff.
Grainne O'Neill lives in New Orleans and works at the public defenders office, The Iron Rail and New Orleans Indymedia. She recently graduated from Columbia Law School, where she was active with the National Lawyers Guild, and was instrumental in starting the Green Scare Hotline. Prior to attending law school she co-founded Jane Doe Books - an anarchafeminist infoshop in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Kamau Karl Franklin is the Racial Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights and a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. He handles a wide variety of cases including criminal, civil and human rights issues. Kamau is the former Legal Program Director of New York City PoliceWatch, a sister project of the San Francisco based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. As part of his work with MXGM, Kamau has worked on works on various issues of concern to the black community including the issue of political prisoners/exiles of the Black Liberation Struggle, a "Cop Watch" program to train community members to use video cameras to monitor local police conduct, in Brooklyn, New York.
Bob Boyle is a member of the Executive Committee of the NLG-NYC and criminal defense attorney specializing in post-conviction and government misconduct litigation. He is the former staff attorney of the NLG's Grand Jury Project, Inc. Bob has represented numerous activists including Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a former leader of the Black Panther Party and target of COINTELPRO who won new trial after 19 years, Osama Awadallah, arrested as a material witness after September 11, 2001. He is currently representing Mohammed Al-Moayad, a Yemeni national lured to Germany in an FBI sting operation and is acting as a consulting attorney on the San Francisco 8 case.
Beth Baltimore is a third year law student at Brooklyn Law School and a member of the National Lawyers Guild New York City Chapter Executive Committee. She worked with Grainne to develop and implement the Green Scare Hotline that is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to assist individuals arrested or subpoenaed for offenses related to environmental or animal activism. It can be reached at 888-NLG-ECOLAW.
JustUs NYC Legal Collective formed in late 2006 to fill a growing need for a grassroots legal support organization. Over the past year, JustUs has worked to write, produce, and distribute Know Your Rights materials for both activists and non-activists. Their materials provide resources to local communities and introduce community members to navigating the legal system.
For info about the upcoming 2011 NYC Anarchist Bookfair (9 April) see: www.anarchistbookfair.net
To contact the NYC Anarchist Book Fair organizing collective to volunteer, submit workshop and tabling applications, make a donation, or get more information, email us at info[at]anarchistbookfair[dot]net
More NYC Anarchist Book Fair archives can be found at www.anarchistbookfair.net/archives
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