International Committee News

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  Appeals court ruling strikes down Arkansas anti-BDS law in win for Palestinian rights, free expression

  The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Arkansas’ anti-BDS law in a ruling issued today, February 12, a clear victory against unconstitutional legislation attempting to silence advocacy for Palestinian rights. The National Lawyers Guild and Project South had filed an amicus brief in Arkansas Times, LP v. Mark Waldrip, et. al, challenging the anti-boycott […]

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  NLG Joins the International Call to #StandwithFarmers in India

  February 8, 2021 — The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) International Committee (IC) joins the international call to support farmers in India engaged in the largest general strike in history. Since fall 2020, farmers in the states of Punjab and Haryana have been opposing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Minister Narendra Modi administration’s three farm […]

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  Feb 5: Cuba’s Covid-19 Response amid US Blockade with Art Heitzer

  Please join us today, Friday, Feb. 5, for this important event! The Philippines-Cuba Friendship Association/AMISTAD cordially invites you to a WEBINAR on CUBA’S COVID-19 RESPONSE AMIDST US BLOCKADE on February 6, 2021 at 5 pm – 8:30 pm Pacific time, 8 pm – 10:30 pm Eastern time! This is in cooperation with the International League of […]

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  Resolution: IADL Urges President Biden to Remove Cuba from Terrorism List and Suspend Titles III and IV of Helms Burton

  The following resolution was adopted by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) Council, meeting in virtual session, on Sunday, 24 January 2021. This resolution builds on IADL’s and its member associations’ long years of advocacy to bring an end to the U.S. blockade on Cuba and all unilateral coercive measures targeting Cuba and other nations. The […]

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  George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Tamir Rice, many more: This week’s hearings at the International Commission of Inquiry

  Please join us this morning, Monday, January 25 at the online hearings of the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence against People of African Descent in the U.S. to hear testimony from attorneys and a family member during the hearings for the George Floyd case and the Jacob Blake case. George Floyd’s murder captured the attention […]

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  Cuban international medics nominated for Nobel Prize by NLG and IADL law professors

  The following nomination was submitted to the Nobel Committee by several NLG and International Association of Democratic Lawyers members in academia and organized by Prof. Marjorie Cohn, past NLG President and member of the IADL Bureau. This letter nominates Cuba’s Henry Reeve Brigade for the Nobel Peace Prize for their international work to defend the […]

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  January 23, Online Event: Liberation vs Dependency: Strategies to Defeat Neoliberalism and Colonialism in Algeria, South Africa, and Palestine

  Saturday, January 23, 2021 11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern/7 pm GMT/9 pm Palestine time Online event, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAodu6qpjoqHNBKRNG0ucrF4kqmcdOUMYbl Neoliberalism is sold, and adopted, as the most viable model of development while playing a central counter-revolutionary role in societies still engaging decolonization. Neoliberal policies have advanced colonial projects by protecting models of accumulation through dispossession and […]

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  Alliance on Cuba Engagement and Respect (ACERE) Statement on Trump Administration’s Adding Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terror 

  The NLG is a leading member of ACERE: We are outraged to see that the Trump Administration has once again added Cuba to the list of State Sponsors of Terror. This is a politicized move that has one goal: to place obstacles in the path of diplomatic engagement and normalization that the incoming administration has […]

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  January 14, Call-In Day to Free Simon Trinidad

  Call-In Day to Free Simon Trinidad! Call 202-616-6070, ext. 4 and say, “Tell Trump to pardon Simon Trinidad” Thurs, Jan. 14, 9am to 5pm EDT Phone number is for the Office of the Pardon Attorney, U.S. Dept. of Justice Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Asks President Trump to Free Simon Trinidad Prominent Argentinian Nobel Peace Prize […]

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  Audio: Spying on Arab and Muslim Americans – Interview with Abdeen Jabara

  Since 9/11, the FBI has subjected the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities to surveillance. Sending infiltrators and confidential informants into mosques and other community spaces absent any evidence of criminal wronging, it’s clear that for the FBI race, religion, and national origin are inherently suspicious in the War on Terror. However, the FBI’s history […]

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