¡En La Lucha! Endorsement of Teague Briscoe for NLG Executive Vice President

Greetings comrades:

¡TUPOCC is endorsing the candidacy of Teague Briscoe and calling on all allies to do the same!

TUPOCC endorses Teague Briscoe for the following reasons:

Teague has the experience, passion and intelligence to lead the Guild in the second decade of the 21st century. President of the SF-Bay Area NLG Chapter, the largest staffed NLG chapter, for the past year, Teague has proven her dedication, strength of character, and ability to lead. Teague has national experience, having already served two years on the NEC--and on its Executive Committee--as Student National VP (SNVP) from 2005-07. The year before her election as SNVP, she raised $8,000 as the Law Student Vice President of the NLG-SF. As NLG-SF president, she helped raised $20,000 in foundation grants for her chapter's strategic planning process.

Appealing broadly to a diverse array of constituencies, Teague has the charisma, coalition-building skills and know-how to make the NEC, and its EC, become the cooperative efficient collective that we need at our highest leadership in the Guild. She has the vision to grow new membership in innovative and principled coalitions that will realize the relevancy of the NLG in the 21st century, helping us chart its way to truly become the legal servant of a massive people's movement working towards the eradication of injustice and the liberation of us all.

In deciding on candidates, you may hear discussion about "experience" and "ability." Teague brings both to the table. She has spent two years as part of a strategic planning committee: first raising funds and then selecting a consultant. With that consultant, she has spent a year contemplating the relevancy of the NLG. Where are we? How have we gotten here? Where do we want to go? Teague believes we need to ask these questions at every level of the organization. The skills and lessons she has learned as president of the NLG-SF chapter can and need to be applied at the national level.

We urge you to also consider her creativity, passion and commitment to people's movements. She is active in the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Defense Committee, was part of coalition to stop cut to welfare in Alameda County, was one of the first members of the Oakland City ID Card Coalition which saw Oakland City Council pass legislation so that all its residents can carry identification, and sits on the San Francisco Homeless Rights Project with the ACLU, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Bay Area Legal Aid, East Bay Community Law Center, and the Coalition on Homelessness.

Finally, we ask you to consider the principles to which this organization has committed itself as it moves towards supporting and developing young leaders of color in the NLG. Teague is part of a movement of young, radical legal activists of color coming from the community and serving the community. She is a dedicated member of TUPOCC. She believes in the power of a radical, legal activist organization standing in solidarity with sisters and brothers who oppose injustice, and that belief and love shines in everything that she does!

Teague's candidate statement is below. Please join us in supporting her candidacy!

In solidarity,

• Karen Jo Koonan, past NLG President, Past Legal Worker VP*
• Barbara Dudley, past NLG President*
• Marjorie Cohn, past NLG President*
• Russell Bloom, NEC member/NLG Executive Vice President*
• Tory Gavito, NEC member/TUPOCC Co-Chair*
• Marc-Tizoc Gonzales, NEC member/TUPOCC Co-Chair*
• Renee Quintero Sanchez, NEC Member/Far West Regional Vice President, LA-Chapter Board Member, Founding TUPOCC Co-Chair*
• Ranya Ghuma, NEC Member/ Mid-Atlantic Regional Vice President, Maryland NLG Chapter Co-Chair, Founding TUPOCC Co-Chair*
• James M. Branum, NEC Member/ Texoma Regional Vice President, Military Law Task Force Co-Chair
• Carl Williams, NEC Member/Northeast Regional Vice President*
• Azadeh Shahshahani, NEC Member/Southeast Regional Vice President & International Committee Co-Chair*
• Dan Spalding, NEC Member/National Vice President, Former Legal Worker Representative, Midnight Special Law Collective Member*
• Michael Flynn, NEC member/Anti-Racism Committee Co-Chair *
• Garrett Wright, NEC member/Anti-Racism Committee Co-Chair*
• Aliya Karmali, NEC member/Anti-Sexism Committee Co-Chair, NLG-SF Board member, Former Law Student Vice Present (NLGSF)*
• Stephanie Morin-Taylor, NEC member/Anti-Sexism Committee Co-Chair, NLG-NY Board member*
• Nikhil Shah, NLG-LA Board member*
• Steve Bingham, NLGSF Board member*
• Brenna Bell, Former NextGen Co-Chair*
• Ashlee Albies, Former NextGen Co-Chair*
• David Waggoner, NLG-SF Vice-President member, Former NEC member/National Queer Committee Co-Chair , Former co-Student NVP*
• Anne Befu, Former NEC member/National Queer Committee Co-Chair, Former TUPOCC Co-Chair, Former NLG-SF Chapter Board Member*
• Matt Nelson, Former NEC member/Past TUPOCC Co-Chair, incoming NLG-SF board member*
• Zafar Shah, Former NEC member/Past TUPOCC Co-Chair*
• Sara Sturtevant, Former NEC member/Past National Queer Committee Co-Chair*
• Robert Bloom, NLG-SF chapter member*
• Maunica Sthanki, Former NEC member/Past Student National Vice President, Founding TUPOCC member*
• Kerry Mclean, Former NEC member/Past Anti-Sexism Committee Co-Chair, Africa SubCommittee Founder and Chair, NLG-NY Board member*
• Christina Alicia Varner, past NLG-SF board member*
• Christine Stouffer, NLG-SF Immigration Committee Co-Chair, past NLG-SF board member*
• Katy Schuman Clemens, Former NEC member/Past Queer Caucus Co-Chair*
• Laura Raymond, Past NLG National Student Organizer*

*For identification purposes only.