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We are 400 signatures away from meeting our goal of 5,000 signatures demanding charges be dropped against demonstrators fighting for #BlackLiberation. Please continue to share and sign!

Description: Please join us at the upcoming special City Council meeting, where they will hear proposed amendments to Libby's budget proposal, and sign up to give public comment! We need to put the pressure on City Council right NOW & continue to demand that they defund OPD and refund, restore, reimagine. To join the meeting, click here when it begins: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87529531780

Fundraiser for #BlockTheBoat Campaign Please donate and share with your networks: https://www.gofundme.com/f/block-the-boat-oakland-2021 #BDS #ShutDownApartheid #FreePalestine

TODAY from 6pm-8pm PDT Register here: bit.ly/RCOFM-Pt-2 Join attorneys and community organizers for conversation on how climate change is driving forced migration by endangering food production and increasing environmental disasters that are making locations across the world unlivable, and how grassroots movements are fighting against these incredible forces.... Speakers: Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson José Artiga, Share El Salvador Carolina Martin Ramos, Esq, Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim Luis Marcos, Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim Camilo Pérez Bustillo, Witness at the Border Moderators: E Conner, NLG-SFBA Program Coordinator Osman Yasin, NLG-SFBA Law Student Intern [Image Description: title says, Root Causes of Forced Migration Webinar 2 Climate Change, Food Production, & Environmental Disaster. Below is the description of the event, along with the speakers, date/time, and endorsers of the event. On the right hand side of the image is a pair of hands sticking out of water holding a growing plant.] #USImperialism #Neoliberalism #Capitalism #Militarization #Migration #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalJustice #International #Solidarity #liberation

How to push back against these policies? Go to: http://bit.ly/CutAid And, sign the petition: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSeKvKqkn1QcjO4eLe/viewform

This Friday! #BlockTheBoat #BDS #ShutDownApartheid

This Sunday at 12pm PDT! Hosted by Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)- , ColombiaConexion - SF Bay, and The People. #FreePalestine #SaveSilwan #SOSColombia #SOSColombiaDDHH

Update from AROC: Arab Resource & Organizing Center If you would like to stay directly connected: text your name to 191-BLOCKZIM (1-812-562-5946) to receives updates and calls to action. Call 415-861-7444 to get in touch. Stay tuned on AROC's Twitter page: https://twitter.com/AROCBayArea

Today at 6:30pm in San Jose! #SaveSilwan #SaveSheikhJarrah #FreePalestine [Image Description: monument and village with text that says 'RESISTANCE UNTIL LIBERATION EMERGENCY PROTEST FOR SILWAN; The Israeli occupation authorities just ordered 1500 Palestinians in Silwan to demolish their own homes within 21 days or else pay the demolition fees. END THE ISRAELI POLICY OF SYSTEMIC FORCED DISPLACEMENT WEDNESDAY 6/9 6:30PM SANTANA ROW CORNER OF STEVENS CREEK & WINCHESTER #SAVESHEIKHJARRAH #SAVESILWAN #SAVELIFTA #FREEGAZA']

TONIGHT @ 7pm PDT If you haven't already, register here: bit.ly/RCOFM-Pt-3

Two days left till our 'Freeing Fremont Schools' Town Hall! We are excited to be joined by Samantha from South San Francisco High School Students 4 Change to connect the challenges that organizers are facing when it comes to removing officers off school campus and fight for life affirming programs. Register for the event here: bit.ly/nlgsfba-YCTH

#BLOCKTHEBOAT TOMORROW! For more information: https://t.co/I0EJCUDhCO

Today at 5pm! Register here: bit.ly/write4gabby.

Today is the day to email/call your Assemblymember to pass the #VISIONAct! Take 30 seconds to send a message to the members in the Assembly using this online mobilizing tool (bit.ly/VISIONactAsmFloor) developed by Youth Justice Coalition. Find more information on how to participate with this VISION Act guide at: bit.ly/VISIONAct

Catch this important discussion with Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), Organized Communities Against Deportations, and Immigrant Defense Project about the Biden Administration's executive actions, deportation moratorium, and "enforcement" priorities.

Read the letter to Governor Newsom signed by us and dozens of other social justice groups voicing our strong opposition to Adam Schiff as CA Attorney General https://t.co/pauF2VPQzU?amp=1

For those who think the fight is over "The last-minute labor deal is one of several ways the departing Trump administration sought to tie its successors’ hands on policy. On Jan. 8, for example, Mr. Cuccinelli signed an agreement with the government of Texas that he hoped would block the Department of Homeland Security from changing deportation policy without giving the state 180 days’ advance notice."

Join NLG-SF staffWe are seeking a full-time Program Coordinator to work with our committees, partner organizations, volunteers, interns, and law students. The Program Coordinator will be responsible for working collaboratively with the Executive Director and membership to streamline programming, volunteers, and communications across all active committees and advance organizational programs. We are accepting applications on a rolling basis, to apply please send a resume and cover letter to [email protected]. See link in bio for full job description.

On Giving Tuesday: Give More to Movement Defense! From now until the end of 2020, we are asking for your help to raise $50,000 towards next year’s program and committee work in defense of social justice movements. Please consider giving to the NLG-SFBA today, on Giving Tuesday. Click here: https://linktr.ee/Nlgsf to donate!

Submit public comment to the vaccine committee and keep up pressure on the state until it provides clarity on this issue! Pubic comment toolkit: https://docs.google.com//1-4dBT72UT7J1viI8vEeduHEsbKe/edit

Join Prisoner Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, Critical Resistance, and No Justice Under Capitalism in holding Newsom accountable and DEMANDING MASS RELEASES NOW! NO STATE EXECUTION BY COVID-19! Caravan playlist and emergency info: Follow along in your car at 88.3fm, or, if the sound is fuzzy, tune in on protestsound.com

From now until the end of 2020, we are asking for your help to raise $50,000 towards next year’s program and committee work in defense of social justice movements. On this day of mass online consumption, please consider giving to the National Lawyers Guild - SF Bay Area chapter for our work defending movements working for human rights over property and people over profits. As we head into 2021, NLG-SF Bay Area has plans to not only continue but expand its Committee and program work. To donate please visit our website at the following address https://nlgsf.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact.

Day of Action to Bring Blue-Sky Home Rickie Blue-Sky, a Native American trans man and elder who’s been incarcerated for 37+ years, is at great risk of #COVID19 in California prison. Urge Governor @GavinNewsom to release Blue-Sky now to his loving family and community. Please submit your public comment today to #FreeBlueSky: bit.ly/ReleaseBlueSky

Join NLG-SF to get trained up to facilitate Know Your Rights workshops. Know Your Rights workshops inform people on what legal protections exist, and how to exercise your rights. Topics range from navigating police interactions, demonstrations, searches, FBI interrogations and more. The training will orient you to the history and context for this kind of popular legal education. You will also gain access to our new KYR Training manual and resource list. Once you have complete...d the training, you have the option of being added to a list of KYR trainers we use for referrals, or you can take the learning straight into your own community! REGISTER THRU LINK IN BIO #KnowYourRights #CommunityDefense #MovementDefense [image: turquoise, pink and black spots with text that reads Know Your Rights, Training of Trainers, Saturday, December 5th]

Apoye a lxs migrantes, proveedores de servicios legales, y NLG-SFBA en responsabilizar a la Corte de Inmigración de SF! No permitiremos que el comportamiento racista, hostil, y parcial continúe. Tome acción: Firma esta carta exigiendo que investiguen al Juez de Inmigración Ford. bit.ly/fueraford (también conocido como bit.ly/removeford) Sea voluntarix de nuestro programa colaborativo de vigilancia judicial. http://bit.ly/courtwatch1 Gracias a Dolores Street Community Services' Deportation Defense Program, Pangea Legal Services, Centro Legal de la Raza, Freedom for Immigrants - Formerly CIVIC, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, Kehilla Community Synagogue, y Innovation Law Lab por todo el trabajo que hacen para proteger lxs derechos de migrantes.

Support migrants, legal service providers, NLG-SFBA in holding SF Immigration Court accountable! We won’t let racist, hostile, biased behavior stand. Take action: Sign onto this letter demanding that IJ Ford be investigated! bit.ly/fueraford (aka bit.ly/removeford) Volunteer for our collaborative court watch program. http://bit.ly/courtwatch1 Thank you to Dolores Street Community Services', Pangea Legal Services, Centro Legal de la Raza, Freedom for Immigrants - Formerly CIVIC, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, Innovation Law Lab, and Kehilla Community Synagogue for all of your work in protecting immigrant rights!