The National Lawyers Guild Midwest Regional Conference will be held April 17, 18 and 19 at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.

REGISTER online at www.tinyurl.com/nlg09

WE DISSENT: Taking Back our Civil Liberties

Topics to be covered at the Conference:

• Know Your Rights (with Jude Ortiz, Coldsnap Legal Collective)
• Securing the Human Rights of Arrestees and Detainees: the Right to Medical Attention (with Peter Brown, former MN NLG President and Jordan Kushner)
• Legal Workers of the World, Unite(d)! As faculty for lawyers after law school (facilitated by Michael Friedman with Abigail Cerra, Jude Ortiz and Michelle Gross)
• Solomon Amendment (discussion by Phil Duran, staff attorney for OutFront Minnesota)
• Political Prisoners in America (with Ramona Africa, Move9 Philadelphia political prisoner movement)
• Living with Debt and Being an Effective Advocate (with Heather Rastorver Vlieger and Sharon Fischlowitz of LRAP) 
• Immigration and Reform
• International Human Rights Applied Domestically (presented by Peter Brown with Ajamu Baraka, Execitive Director of the US Human Rights Network)
• Legal Observer Training (with Jennifer McEwen, Rachel Bengston and Carla Magnuson)
• Culture and Life in the Twin Cities (with Abigail Cerra)
• The Movement For Reproductive Justice: New Strategies For Organizing And Coalition Building (presented by Hamline Law Students for Reproductive Justice)
• Homelessness in the Twin Cities and Effective Programming
• NLG Student Chapter breakout session
• Terrorizing Dissent