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"The NLG is an association dedicated to the need for basic change in our political and economic system.

It's a political force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests."

01/23/2026

Legal Observers with the National Lawyers Guild - Rhode Island Chapter were at Providence City Hall last night (look for the trademark green hats) supporting demonstrators advocating for rent stabilization and against ICE

01/15/2026

What can you do in East Providence?⚓️

* Join the Deportation Defense Line through AMOR RI - Alianza para Movilizar Nuestra Resistencia ❤️. Call the line if you think you see ICE: 401-675-1414

* Join the Providence General Assembly and help conduct ICE watches at local churches and publish zines for folks at risk of deportation (among other things!). 📰

* Donate to the National Lawyers’ Guild or join their ranks National Lawyers Guild - Rhode Island Chapter ([email protected]). 🧑🏽‍⚖️

* Call/email the East Providence City Council and tell them to pass an ordinance to keep ICE off of city property.

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💡Text from our friends at TANK - Transformative Action for North Kingstown

01/15/2026

Legal Observers from the Rhode Island Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild were out on January 8th at Providence City Hall supporting the Providence General Assembly, AMOR RI - Alianza para Movilizar Nuestra Resistencia, Direct Action PVD, PSL and many others protesting the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE

01/15/2026

Legal Observers from the Rhode Island Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild were out on New Year's eve at rhe Wyatt Immigration Jail in Central Falls RI supporting AMOR RI - Alianza para Movilizar Nuestra Resistencia, Direct Action PVD, PrYSM, ONA Vecinos de Olneyville , and Indivisible Guide activists protesting ICE

01/15/2026

A recent photo from Minneapolis with green hat of a NLG Legal Observer visible in crowd

01/01/2026

Our NLG Legal Observers were out this evening to support AMOR RI - Alianza para Movilizar Nuestra Resistencia, Direct Action PVD, PrYSM and all the Rhode Islanders demonstrating against ICE and calling for the Wyatt Detention Jail to be closed, it was cold, but we were warmed by the strong showing of solidarity for our imprisoned neighbors and their families.

12/14/2025

We invite you to join the Rhode Island Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild for a community discussion focused on the role of lawyers who support social justice initiatives.

We will be joined by two extremely talented and experienced attorneys :

- Carlton E. Williams, who worked as a criminal defense attorney with the Roxbury Defenders. He also has provided legal defense and strategy for movements from Occupy to Black Lives Matter. He has served as the chair of the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Chapter of the NLG and as the executive director of the Water Protector Legal Collective, defending and supporting Indigenous environmental justice and sovereignty. He is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School where he teaches movement law.

- Shannah Kurland is an activist, organizer and civil rights attorney active in Providence for many years now. In 1994 she was the second executive director of Direct Action for Rights and Equality where she was regarded as a DARE veteran. She served as the Strategy and Development Coordinator with the Olneyville Neighborhood Association, on the Board of Directors of Movement Ground Farm, and as Legal Director of the Providence Youth Student Movement.Today Shannah is Of Counsel with the state’s premier civil rights law firm.

We shall discuss movement lawyering, exploring how lawyers and legal workers best collaborate with organizers to use the law to support, witness, and defend movements for social and environmental justice. What should activists, organizers and frontline communities expect from the lawyers who advocate with them? How can lawyers be held accountable to the leadership of organizers both within and from impacted communities? How can lawsuits be best used to support these movements? How can lawyers develop strategies to collaborate and cooperate with the movement participants and community members to create lasting change?

During the Civil Rights Movement, attorneys like Pauli Murray, Constance Baker Motley, Charles Houston and his protégé Thurgood Marshall, worked with organizers like Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin and Dr. King. These collaborations were not without tension between direct action strategies and strategic litigation. What lessons can we apply to current challenges to make better world outcomes in the future?

These issues are especially pressing today as we are confronted with growing fascism and a federal government restrained by the rule of law.

12/14/2025

We invite you to join the Rhode Island Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild for a community discussion focused on the role of lawyers who support social justice initiatives.

WHERE: AS220, main stage, 115 Empire St, Providence, RI
WHEN: Wednesday, December 17th from 5pm to 7pm

12/14/2025

Sending love to all our Providence and Brown University neighbors ❤️

07/21/2025

Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.

04/26/2025

Thank you to everyone at Masjid Al Kareem (Islamic Center of Rhode Island) for inviting the Rhode Island Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild to your conversation about our legal rights.

02/19/2025

New article by The Guardian!

“The state’s intent is not really to prosecute – the intent is to scare people out of wanting to participate in protests at all,” said Ria Thompson-Washington, a board member with the National Lawyers Guild, which represented many protesters.

Police in part use mass arrests as “a crowd control tactic and an easy and quick solution”, said Xavier de Janon, director of mass arrest for the National Lawyers Guild. The legal standard to make an arrest only requires probable cause that a crime is being committed, he added. Most of the protesters who were charged were hit with minor charges like noise or curfew violations, or trespassing, de Janon said.

Read the full article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/gaza-protesters-charges-dismissed

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