Madison Nlg

04/10/2026

Application deadline next week

04/01/2026

Via Zoom tomorrow April 2:

Join the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) for a webinar on knowing your risks during an ICE encounter. This webinar is hosted by L4GG, and will feature the NLG's Director of Mass Defense, Xavier T. de Janon.

03/18/2026

03/18/2026

Lawyers in the case against immigration protesters in Broadview say it criminalizes First Amendment rights to speech and assembly and creates a “chilling” effect on the public.

02/04/2026

Great news from Chicago-charges against people resisting ICE dismissed!

Charges dismissed!

Today, 20 people arrested while protesting ICE at the Broadview Detention Center had their cases dismissed! Huge shout to NLG members Amy Chiang, Madison Heckel, Nadia Woods and Amanda Yarusso for their work on these cases!

Want to help ensure that NLG Chicago can continue to organize attorneys to represent people arrested at protests? Make a donation to our chapter at nlgchicago.org/donate

02/03/2026

This was the training we did in Rhinelander Saturday-it's not NLG legal observer training, as I tried to explain while presenting the "Know Your Risks" section of the program https://www.wxpr.org/politics-government/2026-02-03/northern-lights-indivisible-holds-legal-observer-training-in-the-northwoods?fbclid=IwY2xjawPvZXxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEesWQIIeAKzL6vpTOA_o3kysMr1Uc4bTOBahNuP01Z2pRs-3svvqs8xvE5zjY_aem_ZbgYwnn2re41iI9UkJTKNQ

Local organizers with Northern Lights Indivisible offered training this past weekend on how to safely observe Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.It was in response to the ICE operations in Minneapolis in recent weeks.

02/03/2026

01/05/2026

From 2019.

At today's rally against US intervention in Venezuela

01/05/2026

"These acts of aggression cannot be viewed in isolation. Alongside the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the growing instability deliberately manufactured across entire regions by imperialist powers, it reflects the ongoing attempts to undermine and dismantle post war international legal framework. The selective application of law, the normalization of international crimes, and the systematic impunity enjoyed by imperialist states—led by the United States and its allies—have pushed global peace and security to the edge of catastrophe."

  The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) joins the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) in condemning in the strongest and most unequivocal terms the US bombing of Caracas as w