Regisratration Begins for National Lawyers Guild Conference


The National Lawyers Guild is holding a conference, entitled “Forward! Strategies for Social and Legal Change,” on March 4–6 in Madison, Wisconsin. Conference topics will include

  • Innovative approaches to prisoner reentry;
  • Responding to the increased detention of immigrants;
  • Defending equality in a time of backlash: gay rights advocacy and the marriage debate;
  • Challenging corporate personhood, realizing democracy;
  • Rethinking labor law: innovative strategies for building labor’s power; and
  • The new movement for election reform.
John Bouman, director of advocacy at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, will be a panelist on lawyering and community organizing. Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, will be the keynote speaker. For more information and to register for the conference, go to www.nlg.org/chapters/MWRegionalBrochure.pdf.