Task force on the Americas
Special Reports
NLG, AAJ, IADL Joint Report on Constitutional Issues and Honduras Coup
August 3, 2010
HonduranSupremeCourtLetter
May 25, 2010
Final Report on August Honduras Delegation
Spanish -- English translation to come
November 2, 2009
Honduras Report
2009
Honduras English report
October 4, 2009
National Lawyers Guild: Report of Delegation to Bolivia 2007
July , 2007
The Bolivarian Revolution and the Rule of Law
Report from 2006 NLG Delegation to Venezuela
June 1, 2006
Also of interest:
Press Release on Honduran Election
NLG Members Comment on Conditions in Tegucigalpa
November 30, 2009
Other NLG subcommittees
& projects:
Main site
Call to Action!
End Repression of Social Movements in Honduras
Call and Write the Obama Administration and Congress to demand that until the brutal repression of social movements in Honduras ends, the United States Government:
• Suspend all aid to the Lobo administration
• Stop the U.S. State Department lobbying for recognition of the undemocratic government of Honduras.
• Recognize the Honduran people's demand for a Constituent Assembly to establish a functioning, participatory democracy.
News
News
NLG calls upon UN Secretary-General to reconsider Uribe appointment to Gaza flotilla investigation
August 23, 2010
The following letter was sent to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on behalf of the Guild, in response to the news that Alvaro Uribe Velez, former president of Colombia, was to be...
NLG, AAJ, IADL Joint Report on Honduras Coup now available in English translation
August 3, 2010
The joint report of the October 2009 joint delegation to Honduras of the National Lawyers Guild, the Association of American Jurists and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers is now...
NLG Condemns Disciplinary Actions by Honduran Supreme Court Against Judges, Magistrate, and Public Defender
May 29, 2010
The National Lawyers' Guild sent the following letter to the president of the Honduran Supreme Court protesting disciplinary action taken against Honduran judges for protesting against the ouster...
National Lawyers Guild initiates campaign to raise awareness of the attack on the Puerto Rican Bar Association
April 6, 2010
San Juan, Puerto Rico: A delegation of 15 people from the National Lawyers Guild International Committee has just concluded a four day visit to Puerto...
U.S. Military Policy and Vieques:
The Constitutionality and Consequences of Bombing a Nation
March 2, 2010
Shut Down the School of the Americas/Assassins!
NLG International CoChair Joins Father Roy Bourgeois and Thousands of Others at Fort Benning
November 21, 2009
Honduras NLG/AAJ/IADL Delegation Returns
DOWNLOAD ENGLISH PRELIMINARY REPORT HERE
Op Ed from NLG's Emily Yozell
September 8, 2009
Report on NLG 2008 Election Delegation to Venezuela
Regional Elections for Governors, Mayors and State Legislatures
April 13, 2009
2006 Delegation to Venezuela Submits Report
The Bolivarian Revolution and the Rule of Law
July 6, 2006
About the Task force on the Americas
Task Force on the Americas
The Task Force on the Americas came out of the February 2006 Delegation to Venezuela, a delegation sponsored by the NLG and National Latino/a Law Students Association. The delegation of 16 lawyers, 6 law students and a filmmaker spent a week in Caracas and was inspired by the Bolivarian Revolution and its effort to further regional integration and an alternative to neoliberal trade policies in the Americas. The Task Force has sponsored the April U.S. tour of Justice Fernando Vegas of the Venezuela Supreme Court and was invited to Washington DC by Congressman Gregory Meeks of NY to give a congressional briefing on the Bolivarian Constitution in May 2006. We sent a delegation to Bolivia in 2007 and have sent several delegations to observe elections in Venezuela and El Salvador. We have sponsored numerous workshops at NLG Conventions, including three scheduled for the 2009 Convention. We have a list serve and hold annual meetings at the NLG Convention(write Judy Somberg at judy_somberg@igc.org to join the list serve.)
Because the Bolivarian Revolution is based on the 1999 Venezuelan Constitution and laws pursuant to it and constitutional change has been a key demand of progressive forces in Bolivia, Ecuador and Honduras, lawyers and judges from the US can play an important role in explaining developments in left-leaning states, resisting US intervention and contradicting US media disinformation.
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