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NLG-SF Testimonial Dinner in Honor of Anne Weills & Dan Siegel, 4/5/14: photos & audio
The National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area chapter held their annual Testimonial Dinner at the Oakland Marriott on April 5. Over three hundred people attended the fundraising event. The dinner honored Anne Weills and Dan Siegel as Champions of Justice, Zahra Billoo as Unsung Hero, and the Prison Hunger Strikers and Hunger Strike Solidarity Committee as Partners in Liberation. (full audio and program below)
[Photo of banner hanging behind ballroom stage which quotes from the NLG Mission Statement: The National Lawyers Guild is an association dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization which shall function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.]
The local chapter of the NLG has offered pro bono legal support to countless people exercising their Free Speech rights in Northern California. If you yourself have not directly benefited from their free legal services over the years, odds are that you know a number of people who have. Consider supporting the tireless work of the NLG with a financial donation at http://www.nlgsf.org/contribute.
The San Francisco Bay Area NLG has been holding testimonial dinners since 1979. The previous dinner in 2013 honored civil rights attorney Walter Riley and concluded with a musical performance by The Coup, featuring Walter’s son Boots Riley.
[Disclosure: Michael Siegel and Siegel & Yee are currently representing this reporter in a civil suit against BART PD over a wrongful arrest at a 2011 protest at the Powell Street station. A trial is currently scheduled for September of 2014.]
The local chapter of the NLG has offered pro bono legal support to countless people exercising their Free Speech rights in Northern California. If you yourself have not directly benefited from their free legal services over the years, odds are that you know a number of people who have. Consider supporting the tireless work of the NLG with a financial donation at http://www.nlgsf.org/contribute.
The San Francisco Bay Area NLG has been holding testimonial dinners since 1979. The previous dinner in 2013 honored civil rights attorney Walter Riley and concluded with a musical performance by The Coup, featuring Walter’s son Boots Riley.
[Disclosure: Michael Siegel and Siegel & Yee are currently representing this reporter in a civil suit against BART PD over a wrongful arrest at a 2011 protest at the Powell Street station. A trial is currently scheduled for September of 2014.]
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http://www.nlgsf.org
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