Saturday, June 21, 2008
Save the date! The NLG convention is coming to Detroit this October.
The list of "major panels" sounds like a hoot! Low-lights include:
Legal and Political Strategies to Support the Liberation of Palestine
The nature of support for Palestine, and the movement to condemn Zionism as a form of racism, has been at the center of many NLG discussions. This panel seeks to build on that work, particularly in light of the 60 year anniversary of the Nakba, and propose concrete legal strategies for dismantling the Zionist occupation and ending the genocide. In addition, many NLG members are looking for concrete ways to support Palestine solidarity work. This panel helps provide strategies, such as legal support for a comprehensive boycott of Israel, expelling Israel from the United Nations and other measures in the international arena, litigating against Israel and Israeli officials for genocide, use of Israel’s human rights violations to aid asylum seekers in the U.S., addressing movement building in the U.S., dealing with internalized Zionism and prioritizing the voices of Palestinians, litigation in Israel’s courts by Palestinian organizations.
Or how about:
Displacement and Occupation of Our Inner Cities: Understanding Post-Fascist Amerikkka
People living in inner-cities areas are being squeezed out. With “white flight” in reverse, poor people and people of color are forced out of desirable downtown city-areas. This panel will explore the ways that city and county governments are working with private developers, business interests, and the police to achieve these ends. The panel will also explore the legal tools attorneys and activists are using to combat these forces.
Mom and Dad must be so happy with all that money they spent on a law school education (actually, a lot of them probably are).
"Internalized Zionism?" What's that mean...being born Jewish? What a gaggle of schmucks among us.