Annual Testimonial Dinner on March 27
This year our chapter is honoring two Champions of Justice: Matt Ross & David Weintraub. We are also honoring Megan Books as our Unsung Hero. The big event will be March 27 at the Oakland Marriott City Center, 1001 Broadway near 12th Street BART.
A reception will begin at 5:30 PM, followed by dinner at 7:30. Featured speakers will include Mike Casey, president of UniteHere! Local 2 and the San Francisco Labor Council, as well as Beverly Tucker, Former Chief Counsel for the California Teachers Association, and Assemblymember Bill Monning.
If you did not receive an RSVP card in the mail, you can download the invitation by clicking here (pdf). You must RSVP by March 19 to be guaranteed a seat at the dinner. Hundreds of people are expected in downtown Oakland, so make your plans now!
Questions? Send an email to NLGSFdinner@gmail.com.
Tell Mayor Newsom and Juvenile Probation: Our Voices Matter!
San Francisco’s Juvenile Probation Department is tearing innocent youth from their families and reporting them for deportation, without the basic right to a hearing on their charges. Last year, hundreds of community members raised our voices against this injustice. We met with our representatives, held rallies, and turned out at Board of Supes’ meetings. And we made history. The Board passed a new policy to restore due process to all youth in SF, so that only youth found to have committed a felony would be reported to ICE. Innocent youth would stay with their families.
Mayor Newsom and Juvenile Probation Chief Sifferman are refusing to implement the new policy – ignoring the hard work of hundreds of community members, and causing the separation of more innocent immigrant children from their families and deportation.
Open Letter to David Carrillo Regarding Co-Teaching a Course with Torture Lawyer John Yoo
David A. Carrillo
CA DOJ - AG’s Office
PO Box 70550
Oakland, CA 94612
Mr. Carrillo:
We have just learned that you plan to co-teach Constitutional Design and the California Constitution this coming spring semester at Boalt Hall with Professor John Yoo. This causes us grave concern, which we would like to share with you.
Congratulations to Our 2010 Executive Board
Our newly elected Executive Board members will begin their terms January 1. Election results are as follows:
President Teague Briscoe
Vice President Michael Flynn
Treasurer Nancy Lowenthal
Secretary Salena Copeland
Guild Community Mourns the Loss of Sylvia Bingham
Board member and 2009 NLGSF Champion of Justice Stephen Bingham and his wife Francoise Blusseau lost their daughter, Sylvia Bingham, on September 15th in a tragic accident while riding a bicycle in Cleveland. Click here to learn more.