Meeting re NLG support for Occupy Detroit - 12/12, Anchor Bar, 6:00 pm
Cynthia Heenan
To NLG Membership, NLG Legal Observers, Occupy Detroit Legal Committee and anyone from Occupy Detroit with legal questions or issues:
(Please forward widely to Occupy Detroit contacts.)
Since the inception of Occupy Detroit (OD), the local chapter of the National Lawyers Guild has been providing Legal Observers for demonstrations, representation for arrested protesters, and other legal support, including negotiating with the City on behalf of Occupy Detroit re the encampment at Grand Circus Park. We will continue to do all this.
However, now that OD has moved indoors for the winter and is putting together it’s long term organizational structure and strategies, we (NLG Detroit) thought this would be a great time to gather all the NLG people willing to work to support Occupy Detroit and meet with folks from the various OD working groups, affinity groups, committees, etc. to see what other legal-related issues and needs we might help address. This might include issues about handling finances, reviewing leases, dealing with the City on code-enforcement issues, perhaps helping to draft community agreements, exploring options for organizational structure, non-profit status, etc.
Please join us Monday, December 12, 2011, at the Anchor Bar (450 W. Fort Street, Detroit) starting at 6:00 pm for a broad ranging discussion of what more we can do to support Occupy Detroit. Hopefully we can meet in the back room of the Anchor, but if not, upstairs in my office. Either way, food and beverages will be available from the Anchor.
If you can’t make the meeting, please call or e-mail me with ideas about things you can help with or things we can do to assist OD. We do need more Legal Observers and more attorneys with demonstration experience to be the “Lead” Legal Observers for OD actions. We have a great, but small base of people doing this work . . . we’ll need many more if “Occupy” turns out to be the tipping point we have all hoped for for so long!
First Justice, Then Peace!
Cynthia Heenan
NLG Detroit/Mich Citizens Resistance Committee co-chair
Constitutional Litigation Associates, P.C.
450 W. Fort St., Ste. 200
Detroit, MI 48226
Cynthia Heenan
Reminder!!! Please come to this meeting – Guild members – now is the time to be active and tomorrow night at the Anchor Bar is the place to find out how!
Occupy Detroit (Flint, Kalamazoo, Lansing . . . Mich) – Let us know what legal support you need and strategize with us about how to provide it!
If you can’t make it, but you have ideas or want to help, call or e-mail me or Marilyn Morehead (marilyn...@yahoo.com).
Cynthia Heenan
From: Cynthia Heenan [mailto:cynh...@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 7:22 PM
To: NLG Mich/Detroit listserv (nlgmi...@googlegroups.com); 'Nicole Leveque' (occupymet...@gmail.com); Detroit Legal Occupy (occupy-detroit-...@googlegroups.com); 'occdet-di...@googlegroups.com'; 'occupy-detroit-s...@googlegroups.com'; 'othde...@googlegroups.com'; 'occupy-detroit-faci...@googlegroups.com'
Subject: Meeting re NLG support for Occupy Detroit - 12/12, Anchor Bar, 6:00 pm
To NLG Membership, NLG Legal Observers, Occupy Detroit Legal Committee and anyone from Occupy Detroit with legal questions or issues:
(Please forward widely to Occupy Detroit contacts.)
Since the inception of Occupy Detroit (OD), the local chapter of the National Lawyers Guild has been providing Legal Observers for demonstrations, representation for arrested protesters, and other legal support, including negotiating with the City on behalf of Occupy Detroit re the encampment at Grand Circus Park. We will continue to do all this.
However, now that OD has moved indoors for the winter and is putting together it’s long term organizational structure and strategies, we (NLG Detroit) thought this would be a great time to gather all the NLG people willing to work to support Occupy Detroit and meet with folks from the various OD working groups, affinity groups, committees, etc. to see what other legal-related issues and needs we might help address. This might include issues about handling finances, reviewing leases, dealing with the City on code-enforcement issues, perhaps helping to draft community agreements, exploring options for organizational structure, non-profit status, etc.
Please join us Monday, December 12, 2011, at the Anchor Bar (450 W. Fort Street, Detroit) starting at 6:00 pm for a broad ranging discussion of what more we can do to support Occupy Detroit. We will meet in the back room of the Anchor. Food and beverages will be available for purchase from the Anchor.