• Oct. 26-30th: National Convention in Portland, OR

• Alito Education Action Day

  Wed. Nov. 9

  Co-sponsored by the American Constitutional Society.  Within the law school and the larger Northeastern Campus handed out information on Alito’s more controversial decisions, and enabled students to send letters or call their senators in opposition to Alito’s nomination.  We also made stickers.

• Actions Against the Solomon Amendment 
  
  Days of Action.  In response to the arrival of military law recruiters on campus, Guild students held two separate action days to educate law students and others about the Solomon amendment and how it discriminates against queer Americans, as well as the generally evil practices of military recruiters.  The first day involved providing written information and stickers to the law school community to voice their support.  The second involved a week-long image progression campaign (adding images to posted fliers throughout the week) as well as more information, and armbands for the NESL community that said things like “ask me, I’ll tell”.  (co-sponsored by the Queer Caucus)
  
  Dec. 1^st from 1:20-3, in NUSL’s moot court room  -  Town Hall Event -   Kent Greenfield, the acting president of the Plaintiff party of law schools that are challenging the army in the Solomon law suit that is coming up in the Supreme Court; Emily Spieler; Libby Adler, and other NUSL faculty members on the school’s perspective, why it eventually accepted the recruiters, and how they have handled their arrival. (Co-sponsored by the Queer Caucus, the ACS, and the ACLU)

• Walmart and Racial Profiling

  Wed. Nov 16

  In a packed event open to the public, we screened the recently released film “The High Cost of Low Prices,” with speakers afterwards.  Speakers: Attorney Anne-Marie Harris, co-counsel for Ayala v. Wal-Mart who discussed the lawsuit against local Wal-Marts for racially profiling its shoppers, and King Downing, National Coordinator of the ACLU’s Campaign Against Racial Profiling. 

• "Palestinian Life under Israeli Occupation": A Talk by Hannah Mermelstein
  Thursday, November 17th  
  
  Hannah Mermelstein spoke on the realities of Palestinian life under occupation, and the United States' role in keeping it alive.   Hannah’s talk included Israel’s construction of the Wall and settlements within the West Bank, Movements of no-violent resistance in Palestine and here in Boston, and her views as a Jewish American on why Zionism doesn't work.  
  
  Hannah Mermelstein has worked with the International Women's Peace
  Service in the West Bank for 2 years, joining Palestinians in
  nonviolent resistance against the occupation and documenting and
  intervening to interrupt human rights abuses. She recently co-founded
  a program called Birthright Unplugged, which aims to bring mostly young
  North American Jews to Palestine to expose them to realities of life
  under occupation and encourage them to become part of the solution.
  
  Sponsored by the NLG/Northeastern University Radical Front and
  The International Law Society.

Upcoming and Continuing Events

• Street Law Clinic Trainings

  Street Law Clinics are teach-ins to community groups about the law.  The goal is to demistify the law, educating people about their rights, giving them knowledge and power.  This year, students have been trained in Landlord/Tenant and Worker’s Rights clinics.  If you are interested in hosting a street law clinic, please contact the Massachusetts NLG office.