The RNC Starts Next Week: Help the NLG Defend Dissent
Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 09:51 AM CDT
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The National Lawyers Guild is raising money through Indiegogo at http://indiegogo.com/nlg to provide legal support to protesters at the RNC and DNC. Let your friends, colleagues, and family members know that you care about keeping the First Amendment alive by sharing this email, the campaign link, and the NLG's Facebook and Twitter posts about the campaign. If you are interested in volunteering, you can sign up at http://tampa.nlg.org and http://charlotte.nlg.org.
The RNC Starts Next Week: Help the NLG Defend Dissent
The National Lawyers Guild is raising money through Indiegogo at http://indiegogo.com/nlg to provide legal support to protesters at the RNC and DNC. Let your friends, colleagues, and family members know that you care about keeping the First Amendment alive by sharing this email, the campaign link, and the NLG's Facebook and Twitter posts about the campaign. If you are interested in volunteering, you can sign up at http://tampa.nlg.org and http://charlotte.nlg.org.
The Republican National Convention is less than a week away, which means that in addition to the crowds of politicians coming to shake hands, thousands of demonstrators will converge to protest politics as usual. The NLG is mobilizing teams of volunteers to provide protest legal support for the RNC and the DNC. We will keep Legal Observer® eyes on police for as long as protesters are in the streets. We will staff support offices and 24-hour legal hotlines to ensure that each arrested protester has an ally in the courtroom. And, though the NLG is not-for-profit, we need money to make it happen.
The components are simple: office space and office supplies, gas money, housing, and hats for our Legal Observers®. But every piece is vital to this effort, and the costs add up. We are trying to raise $20,000. We know it sounds like a lot, but it is only 1/5,000 of the budget for policing the two conventions. Put another way, law enforcement may have the latest in tear gas and surveillance technology, but with some of the best legal minds in the country volunteering their services, a few computers and hats will go along way.
Help us defend dissent. Donate today, and help spread the word.
National Lawyers Guild
