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Radical Lawyering Conference

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Date:
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Time:
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Event Type:
Conference
Organizer/Author:
Kara B.
Location Details:
NLG Progressive Lawyering Day—September 15

Progressive Lawyering Day is an annual FREE conference organized by Bay Area NLG students to spark interest in public interest and radical lawyering and keep Bay Area leftist students networked. This year's PLD will happen on September 15 at GGU 536 Mission St. in San francisco, 9am - 5:30 pm. Attorney and advocate, Banafsheh Akhlaghi, founder and president of the National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement will give the keynote address. This year we have panels and workshops on environmental justice, immigrant rights, challenging white privilege in the legal community, critical legal studies, transgender people and the law, legal observing at demonstrations, police accountability, prisons, and more. The event is free and open to all. Food and beverages will be provided. The day long conference will end with a reception with a DJ and much cheer. Everyone is Welcome-you don't have to be at all involved in law to participate.
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PLD 2007 Schedule

8:30-9 registration & breakfast - 2nd floor lobby

9-9:30 opening - 2nd floor lobby

9:30-10:45 Panels

Legal Observer workshop – room 3201

SF8 – room 3214

Environmental Justice Struggles in the Bay Area and Central Valley –
room 3203


11-12:15 Panels

Transgender 101 workshop – room 3201

Police Accountability workshop – room 3203

Challenging White Privilege in the Legal Community workshop – room 3214


12:15-1 Lunch - 2nd floor lobby


1-2:15 Panels

Day Labor Programs and Immigrant Rights in the Bay Area – room 3201

Critical Legal Studies – room 3203

Anti-Prison Activism – room 3214


2:30-4 Keynote Speaker: Banafsheh Akhlaghi - room 2201

4-5:30 Reception with DJ Chris Hernandez – 2nd floor lobby

Added to the calendar on Mon, Sep 10, 2007 6:00PM

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"In lieu of capturing the responsible parties for the University City arson, the government is trying to silence someone who has given some breath to a movement they want to hurt," Coronado said outside the court.

Federal prosecutors would not comment on the ongoing case.

The government’s case will essentially hinge on Coronado’s intent when he made the speech. Undercover investigators were at the speech and recorded it, but according to court documents, the investigator’s recorder cut out before the question and answer section of the lecture began. Therefore, exactly what was said about the Michigan State arson, and how Coronado said it, is in dispute.

Under a strict reading of the statute Coronado has been charged under, prosecutors must prove that when Coronado described how he made the incendiary device he intended his audience to go out and use that information to commit crime, said Gerald Singleton, one of Coronado’s attorneys.

But Singleton said he will ask the judge to instruct the jury to take a more narrow approach to the statute in Coronado’s case.
That approach is based on a 1969 Supreme Court decision, Brandenburg v. Ohio.

In Brandenburg, the court ruled that the government could only punish inflammatory speech if it was "directed to inciting and likely to incite imminent lawless action." If the judge instructs the jury to follow this case, Singleton said, the jury would have to agree that Coronado intended to incite immediate lawless action from the group that gathered to hear him speak that night in Hillcrest.

Coronado said that group consisted mainly of middle-aged animal rights activists and young punk rockers -- hardly the sort of crowd to go out and immediately start burning things down, he said.

Singleton said the narrower interpretation of the statute makes sense considering the fact that the information his client passed on to the crowd can be found easily and quickly online. A Google search for "How to make a Molotov cocktail" garnered 6,880 results in 0.37 seconds, including a page from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia that includes diagrams showing the making of a Molotov cocktail.

Singleton will have some help in winning over the judge and jury in the shape of J. Tony Serra, a battle-hardened veteran of civil rights law who once defended members of the Black Panthers.

Serra will be examining some of the witnesses and will be making the closing statement in Coronado’s trial, Singleton said. The trial begins Sept. 10.

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2007/09/04/news/01coronado090407.txt&itemid=200709040716520.528885


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