The annual National Lawyers Guild Law for the People Convention will be held in Seattle October 14-18, 2009. We just received a tentative schedule, including two workshops co-sponsored by TUPOCC. We are working with our comrades to present Deportation Defense: Representing Immigrant Detainees in Bond Hearings (co-sponsored by TUPOCC, NLG San Francisco Immigration Committee, and National Immigration Project of the NLG) and Women and Migration (co-sponsored by TUPOCC and the Anti-Sexism Committee).
Here are some highlights of the tentative schedule:
FRI October 168:30-9:45AM Workshops I
- Comprehensive Immigration Reform
- Out of Africa
- Counter Recruitment Strategies
1:30-2:45PM Workshops II
- Representing Immigrant Detainees in Bond Hearings
SAT October 171:00-2:15PM Workshops III
- Immigrants and the Military
- Transgendered and Incarcerated
2:30-4:00PM Major Panels
- Mass Defense: Police Occupation of Communities of Color
SUN October 1810:45AM-12:00PM Workshops IV
- Responding to Immigration Law Enforcement Abuse
- Gaza
- Women and Migration
- Enhancing Right of Workers to Organize
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