The National Lawyers Guild, the ACLU of Oregon, the American Constitution Society, Peace and Justice Works – Iraq Affinity Group and Amnesty International USA – Group 48 are sponsoring an evening forum entitled:

“Civil Liberties 10 Years After 9/11 – Can We Be Safe and Free”

at 7:30pm on Tuesday, November 8, 2011. The event is free and will be held at the

Portland Building Auditorium, 1120 SW 5^th Ave in Portland

The forum will discuss the threat to our civil liberties caused by the prior and current administration’s systematic policies of torture and targeted killing, extraordinary rendition and warrantless wiretaps, military commissions and indefinite detention, political surveillance and religious discrimination – policies which have dubious or no value in preserving our safety and national security. Speakers: Steven Wax, Kayse Jama, Steven Goldberg, Brandon Mayfield, David Fidanque. Moderator: Jo Ann Hardesty.

 Contact Mark Kramer for further information.  503.243.2733, mark@kramer-associates.com

The Portland NLG Chapter  will be hosting its first annual event this summer!

Saturday, August 27th at 11am at the Kenton Firehouse, 8105 N. Brandon Street

It will be fun, fanciful and reasonably priced. It’ll be a chance for Guild members, colleagues, allies, friends and family to enjoy one of Portland’s finest culinary traditions, brunch. We’ll celebrate briefly our community’s accomplishments for the year, but mostly we’ll celebrate a leisurely morning with new friends and old.

$25 in advance, $12 for student/low income

$30 at the door, $15 for student/low income

Email kac@lclark.edu to make your reservation!

Rally for a Better Way for Oregon

The Portland Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild,
and the Honorable Diana Stuart, Edward Jones,
Richard Baldwin and Robert Wollheim,
invite you to a…

REPORT BACK FROM TUNISIA
Friday, May 13, 2011
12:00 – 1:15 PM
Multnomah County
Courthouse
1021 SW 4th Ave.,
Room 226
Judge Wyatt’s Courtroom

This event is a brown bag lunch. Please bring your associates and friends.

Steven Goldberg and Tom Nelson were part of a delegation of lawyers and activists from the United States, England and Turkey which visited Tunisia in March at the invitation of the National Bar Association of Tunisia. The cataclysmic political changes which resulted in the fall of the Ben Ali regime in January sparked continued changes and protests throughout North Africa and the Middle East.

· How did such dramatic political change happen so quickly?
· What was the role of lawyers in bringing about this change?
· What are the challenges to the transition to democracy?
· How can U.S. lawyers and judges be part of such international delegations?

Come and find out the answers to these questions!

Join us to discuss exciting summer NLG events!

Monday, May 16th

6:30pm

Tarboush Restaurant, 3257 SE Hawthorne, Portland

Join Jobs with Justice and dozens of other organizations to protest cuts to jobs and benefits!

Saturday April 16th @ Noon @ Pioneer Courthouse Square

Bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the Oregon Food Bank.

For more information, see JWJ’s website.

Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011
6 pm – Late
At Holocene
(1001 SE Morrison St., PORTLAND)

Meet Barbara Dudley.

She is the co-chair of the Oregon Working Families Party, and five years ago she (and a bunch of other folks) had an idea…what if we started an independent, grassroots political party focussed on bread and butter economic issues, as well as holding the other parties accountable to the concerns of working people?  Not a bad idea, right?

Five years ago…

Five years ago, for her birthday, Barbara held a kick-off fundraiser for the Working Families Party and the Party was born. In that time we have successfully reformed Oregon’s election system by helping to pass “fusion voting” in the 2009 legislature.  Now, in 2011, the legislature is seriously considering a WFP proposal to create the Oregon State Bank.

And to hear State Treasurer Ted Wheeler tell it in a recent radio inteview, it is thanks to the hard work of the Working Families Party that the Oregon State Bank is now moving forward.

We are turning five.  Join us to celebrate!

Now Barbara is holding another birthday party…for herself, and for the WFP.  You are invited to join us.

We will be fundraising for the Party, of course, but we will also be having a great time.  Barbara has paid a DJ, ordered food, and invited everyone to come.  If you have never met Barbara, don’t worry…this will be your chance.  If you support the Working Families Party and you want to help us set the course for the next five years you are invited to join us:
Can’t come?  Still want to help?

We know that many of you can’t make it  to Portland.  However, the WFP thrives on the grassroots financial support from people like you all over the state, so if you still want to help us out (and send Barbara a little love) there are two way you can make a financial contribution:

1. Sign up to become a monthly sustainer. A small, monthly contribution to the WFP can go a long way, and we won’t waste a penny!  (Don’t forget to mark that you are making a recurring donation.)
2. Click here to sign the “political party check-off” pledge. You can give to the WFP when you are doing your taxes.  The “political party check-off” is easy to do. On your Oregon Income Tax Form (Form 40) just find your way to Line 70, follow the easy instructions, and you’re all set. (FYI, “507″ is the code for the Working Families Party.)  Please take advantage of the moment and direct $3 to your favorite grassroots political party!

Thanks, and hope to see you on the 20th!

Today the State of Oregon deposits billions of our tax dollars into the very same Wall Street banks that crashed our economy. Instead, we could put that money to work at home, creating jobs with a new public bank for Oregon. The state bank would partner with community banks to make credit available to small businesses and farmers. It’s a bank
controlled by we the people-­‐-­‐not the Wall Street fat cats. Join us to learn more and to get involved!

Tuesday, Feb. 1st 5:30-8PM.

Reception from 5:30–6PM. Program from 6–8PM.

At New Song Community Church (2511 NE MLK Jr. Blvd., Portland)

http: //OregoniansForaStateBank

http://www.facebook.com/OregonStateBank