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DESCRIPTION:The Conference is designed to provide legal information and updates 
 concerning and relevant to the NLG Far West Region and its members. The Far 
 West region includes California, Nevada and Hawaii. The Conference will 
 include panels and workshops with topics on current radical legal and 
 progressive issues, and is intended to be useful to NLG attorneys, law 
 students, and legal workers, as well as the larger progressive 
 community.\n\nSaturday Agenda\n\nTENTATIVE PROGRAM\n8:00 AM - Registration, 
 pan dulce, coffee\n\n8:25 AM - 8:40 AM - Welcome and Opening 
 Remarks\nWelcome: Renee Quintero Sanchez, Far West Regional Vice 
 President\nOpening Remarks: Teague Briscoe, NLG-SF President\n\n8:45 AM- 
 10:00 AM - Workshops I and II\n(concurrent presentations)\n\nWorkshop I: 
 Student Organizing\nThis workshop is created and presented by and for 
 radical and progressive law students. Facilitated discussion will include 
 how to start an NLG chapter at your law school, organizing tools and 
 models, transitioning into becoming the “next gen” in the NLG, and 
 more!\nFacilitated by NLG-SF Law Student Vice Presidents and Regional Law 
 Student Leaders\n\nWorkshop II: The Prison Industrial Complex and 
 Crisis\nJoin a discussion amongst a group of racially diverse presenters 
 representing a range of philosophies and politics about how to redress the 
 wrongs of the prison system in California. This panel will be presented by 
 attorneys and legal workers who will discuss the current state of 
 California’s prison system, including regarding prison crowding and 
 expansion, issues that formerly incarcerated people face, and current 
 health care litigation. The workshop will also focus on alternatives to 
 incarceration, including a discussion regarding the possibilities, success 
 and challenges of using restorative justice, harm reduction, and other 
 strategies that do not solely rely on litigation.\n\n10:00 AM - 10:15 AM - 
 Break\n\n10:15 AM - 11:30 AM - Workshops III and IV\n(concurrent 
 presentations)\n\nWorkshop III: Due Process in Removal Proceedings: the 
 Immigration Court Observation Project, with a Primer on Deport 
 Defense\n\nWhile people across the country are rallying to oppose racist 
 laws like SB1070 and ICE’s S-Comm program, and rallying for real 
 immigration reform, deportations under the Obama administration are at 
 record levels. A panel of attorneys from the NLG Immigration Committee’s 
 Immigration Court Observation Project and a Centro Legal de la Raza’s 
 deportation defense fellow will present a short training on immigration 
 court observation and provide a basic introduction to deportation defense. 
 The workshop is geared toward law students, legal workers, legal activists 
 and attorneys new to immigration law. Experienced immigration attorneys and 
 paralegals are welcome to take part in the discussion.\n\nWorkshop IV: The 
 Use of International Law in Domestic Court Cases, Local Municipalities and 
 Human Rights Campaigns\n-Presented by the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties 
 Institute\n\n11:30 AM - 12:00 PM- NO HOST LUNCH (Tentative: lunch available 
 for sale at the Women’s Building by La Raza Women’s 
 Collective)\n\n12:00 PM - 12:45 PM - KEYNOTE\nIntroductory Remarks: Russell 
 Bloom, Executive Vice President\nKeynote: “Visioning: The National 
 Lawyers Guild and the State of Human Rights in 2010 and Beyond”\nDavid 
 Gespass, National President\n\n1:00 PM - 2:15 PM - Workshops V and 
 VI\n(Concurrent Presentations)\n\nWorkshop V: Legal Support and Observing, 
 including Transgender Advocacy\n\nWorkshop VI: Ending the Occupation: 
 Flotillas, Boycotts, and Legal Considerations\n\n2:15 - 2:25 PM 
 Break\n\n2:25 PM - 3:40 PM - Workshops VII AND VIII\n(Concurrent 
 Sessions)\n\nWorkshop VII: Islamophobia and Civil Rights for MEMSA 
 Communities.\nThis workshop will make connections between Islamophobia and 
 other forms of xenophobia and racism. It will also connect this analysis to 
 the current work of the Coalition4SafeSF (of which NLGSF is part), which is 
 currently pressuring the SF police commission not to revive the defunct SF 
 Intelligence Unit (which spied on pro-Palestine/anti-apartheid groups in 
 the 80s/90s including NLG). The Coalition also seeks to prevent local law 
 enforcement from collaborating with federal agents in profiling and 
 gathering intelligence on MEMSA communities in SF.\n\nWorkshop VIII: 
 Foreclosure Defense\n\n3:40 PM - 5:15 - Regional Rap: Making the 
 Connections\n\n5:30 PM- Closing Remarks\n\n5:45 PM - Adjourn \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/18/18656326.php
SUMMARY:NLG Far West Regional Conference (UPDATE)
LOCATION:The San Francisco Women’s Building, 3543 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 
 94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/18/18656326.php
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