National Lawyers Guild

Judge in Jeremy Hammond Case Won't Recuse Herself

Jeremy Hammond loped into a federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan this morning with an awkward gait, his wrists handcuffed before him and his ankles shackled tightly together. Dressed in a navy blue prison jumpsuit, Hammond, the 27-year-old activist and hacker, is facing 30-years-to-life on charges r ... More >>

Pressure On Trinity Church To Call Off Occupy Wall Street Trespassing Charges

Trinity Church, a massive New York land owner with an estimated $1 billion in real estate holdings, is once again at odds with Occupy Wall Street, the movement that sprung up in its back yard. The relationship between Trinity and Occupy has been fraught almost from the start, but tensions escalated ... More >>

New York Holds Demonstration In Solidarity With Montreal's Student Strike

Yesterday marked the hundredth day of Quebec student's strike, the fourth day since the Quebec government passed an oppressive law intended to break the strike, and, as hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets in defiance of the law, possibly the single largest act of civil disobedience in ... More >>

Jesus and Friends Occupy Wall Street

The Occupy Wall Street May Day actions are winding down this evening, with a march from Union Square to Battery Park. [Update, 9:00 PM: Nick Pinto tells me things are not winding down at all. Rather, a very large crowd "has filtered into the amphitheater at the Veteran's Memorial, where they're havi ... More >>

Will Picture The Homeless Sue New York Post Over Sensational Squatting Article?

Yesterday, Runnin' Scared brought you news of Picture the Homeless' funding fracas. The Bronx-based non-profit has received $240,000 in public money over the last five years, but payouts got frozen this week as the City Council investigates squatting allegations. Picture the Homeless says that the ... More >>

Was Zuccotti Park Legally Allowed To Be Closed This Weekend?

As protesters cleared out of Zuccotti Park at the close of Saturday's Occupy Wall Street action Nick Pinto reported that police and private security guards from Brookfield Properties -- the owners of Zuccotti Park -- unlocked metal barricades to close up the plaza. In response, protesters yelled "Wh ... More >>

For Occupy Wall Street, A Day Of Re-Occupation, Re-Eviction, And A Lot Of Violent Arrests

SEE: Photos from last night's protest. Occupy Wall Street began yesterday, its six-month anniversary, with a parent-and-child chalk-art event in Zuccotti Park, the small downtown plaza that became the epicenter of the movement last fall. The rest of the day would become a sort of a condensed repet ... More >>

Chase Manhattan Plaza Still Fenced Off, Activists Call on Landmarks Commission To Act [UPDATE]

In this week's issue we wrote about the metal fencing that has surrounded Chase Manhattan Plaza for the past four months, and the efforts of public space activists to have the fencing removed. Landmarks Commission spokeswoman Lisi DeBourbon told us last week the fencing is none of the Commission's ... More >>

Don't Fence Me Out

Paula Segal got the barricades around Zuccotti Park removed. Now she has a new target.

Zuccotti Park is Full of Zoning Violations, Says the NYCLU

It's been nearly two months since the city evicted Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park, ostensibly over concerns about health and safety violations. But some of the movement's allies claim the new regime at the park violates New York City zoning laws. In a letter sent yesterday, the New York Civi ... More >>

The Re-Occupation of Zuccotti Park

The barricades that have surrounded Zuccotti Park ever since Occupy Wall Street was evicted nearly two months ago came down this evening. As word circulated that Brookfield Properties employees were disassembling the metal fencing that has choked access to the park, participants in last fall's occu ... More >>

OWS People's Library to Address Post-Raid Loss and Destruction of Books

The Occupy Wall Street library will hold a press conference today at 12 p.m. to address the destruction of its collection during the Zuccotti raid and its inability to find many of the lost materials at the Sanitation building where confiscated OWS stuff has been stored. The presser will be on the 2 ... More >>

The Occupy Wall Street Library: Librarians Display the Ruins

Mike Bloomberg has already come under fire for just about every aspect of the late-night raid that cleared Occupy Wall Street out of Zuccotti last week. From reports of police violence, to keeping members of the press from observing the action, to disregarding a restraining order reopening the park, ... More >>

Live: Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, And The So So Glos Occupy Shea Stadium

Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, So So Glos Shea Stadium Monday, November 21 Better than: Getting into another political argument on Tumblr. In honor of last night's benefit for the National Lawyers Guild at Shea Stadium, the letters "OWS," for "Occupy Wall Street," were haphazardly applied to the wall ... More >>

Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, And The So So Glos Are Playing An Occupy Wall Street Benefit At Shea Stadium Tonight

If you aren't doing anything this evening, perhaps you'd like to catch this hot bill that's playing tonight at Shea Stadium: Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, and the So So Glos. The show, which was announced last night, will benefit the National Lawyer's Guild, who's working with people in need of legal a ... More >>

Ray Kelly Versus the First Amendment--On My Street

Video: Man Run Over By a Police Scooter This Morning at Occupy Wall Street

As we mentioned earlier, a man was run over by a police scooter this morning during one of the tussles between cops and protesters in the Financial District. Now some unsettling video has surfaced: The man is reportedly a legal observer for the National Lawyers' Guild. C.S. Muncy also snapped so ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Tweets Reports of Tear Gas, Arrests (UPDATED)

​ In Occupy Wall Street's eighth day, protesters claim on their Twitter account today that they have been targeted by tear gas, and at least 50 people have been arrested during their march through the city this afternoon headed toward the United Nations building [Updated per retraction from a ... More >>

Anonymous Hosting Rally For WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning in NYC Tomorrow

​On Thursday, April 7 at City Hall in New York City, a coalition of groups, organized in part by journalist Barrett Brown, something of a spokesperson for the recently ubiquitous hacker group Anonymous, will gather in support of WikiLeaks, its founder Julian Assange and U.S. soldier Bradley Ma ... More >>

Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Charged with Disorderly Conduct (by Homeless New Yorkers), Voice Series Cited

​Picture the Homeless, a social justice organization for and of New York City's homeless, rallied outside police headquarters this morning to issue Commissioner Raymond Kelly a "ticket" for Disorderly Conduct -- a charge often unfairly used, they argue, to arrest the homeless. Jean Rice, a ho ... More >>

How Treme Can Get It Right

David Simon's new HBO series uses fiction to honor New Orleans' surreal, heart-breaking fact

History Lessons in the D.A.'s Race: Leslie Crocker Snyder's Back Pages

Daughter of the Constitution

A 73-year-old judge renews the law, to the anger of the commander in chief

Hard Listening in the Big Easy

Jazz Fest is on. Clubs are open. The water's receded. The stakes remain high.

City Goes Judge Shopping

Held in contempt for convention detentions, the city gets a Pataki court to step in

Target: Dissent

When cops play peacekeeper, free speech too often becomes the enemy

The Waiting Game

City keeps hundreds in jail too long, chilling protests and angering families

The Week in Review

Guantanamo on the Hudson

Judge orders immediate release of 470 protesters

City May Have to Pay Protesters

A whole new spin on the cost of dissent

Cuisine de Clink

Planning to protest the RNC? Fine dining awaits you at the city's swankiest prisons

Radical Chic: What to Wear on Sunday

Media Cool

Indie filmmakers look for drama and spectacle at the Republican convention

CODEPINK Hits Future Site of Republican National Convention

The Watchers

Protesting at the GOP convention? Legal observers have your back.

Essential Numbers

Ashcroft Defied on City Hall Steps

Telling Ray Kelly to Protect the Constitution

Dying to Dissent

Antiwar Protesters Draw Ire From Counterdemonstrators in New York

New York Rally Shows Mainstream Opposition to War

But Will Bush Hear the Message?

Endgame

INS Detainee Among Longest-Held Makes Plea for Release

Spies in Blue

NY Cops Pushed Legal Limits in WEF Protests

Against The Wall

Anti-Corporate Protesters Reassert Their Vocal Presence

Black Bloc Busted for Bandanas

Cops Move on Masked Demonstrators

Getting Back Our Rights

Don’t Brood and Despair. Organize!

A Knock at the Door

When 'Voluntary' Terrorism Interviews Are Not Necessarily So

NYPD Won't Say No

Police Here Adopt Ethnic Profiling Their Western Counterparts Reject

Remembering the L.A. 8

The INS and Its Critics Take Lessons From a Relentless Pursuit of Immigrants

Marching Orders

NYPD Seeks to Tighten Rules for Public Protest, Activists Cry Foul

'We're Questioning Their Motives'

Citing Bomb Scare, Cops Shut Down Indie Newscast

Big Blue Brother

How Cops Use State-of-the-Art Surveillance Against Demonstrators