National Lawyers Guild International Committee Webinar:
International Solidarity Activism in the Era of HLP v. Holder
featuring Shayana Kadidal, Senior Managing Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
2:00 PM EST/11:00 AM PST - 3:30 PM EST/12:30 PM PST
Register online here or email charlotte.kates@gmail.com to participate
Activists and attorneys are invited to attend.
Recent events have raised many questions for international solidarity activists whose work challenges U.S. foreign policy. On June 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, upholding the applicability of the criminal “material support” statute to a group which sought to train members of a State Department designated "terrorist organization" to use nonviolent dispute resolution techniques and engage in coordinated political advocacy with them. As noted by David Cole, for the first time in its history, the Supreme Court ruled “that speech advocating only lawful, nonviolent activity can be subject to criminal penalty, even where the speakers’ intent is to discourage resort to violence.”
On September 24, FBI raids in Chicago and Minneapolis targeted international solidarity and anti-war activists as part of an investigation of alleged "material support" relating to delegations to Colombia and Palestine. The subpoenaed activists have refused to testify before a grand jury relating to the investigation, and are organizing against the raids.
The implications of the Holder decision and the FBI raids threaten a chilling impact on international solidarity activists, particularly in countries where political and social movements have been labeled with the "terrorist" tag, such as Palestine, Colombia and the Philippines. Join the National Lawyers Guild International Committee and Shayana Kadidal, Senior Managing Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, for an informative session about the issues raised by the Holder decision and its implications for international solidarity activists, as well as the work to challenge repression.
Register to Attend Here. You will receive instructions to join the webinar via email.
For more information, please contact:
National Lawyers Guild International Committee
http://www.nlginternational.org
or email IC Organizer Charlotte Kates at clkates@gmail.com
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