Part 2, Series XVIII: Archived Websites
Extent
Scope and Content Note
This series contains the websites for the National Lawyers Guild, its New York City chapter, and its committees. The websites contain news, press releases, event listings, convention proceedings, internal publications, and governance materials. Many of the websites also include training materials for legal practitioners.
Arrangement
The series is arranged by crawl date.
Accruals
New site crawls are accrued semiannually.
In 2020, https://nipnlg.org/ accruals were increased to biweekly then decreased to monthly in 2021.
Appraisal
Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of nlg.org, nlginternational.org, nlg-npap.org, and nationalimmigrationproject.org, nipnlg.org, nlgmltf.org, nlgnyc.org, and nlg-laboremploy-comm.org in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.
Crawl was expanded to include Google Documents.
Facebook was blocked at nlg.org.
Robots.txt was ignored on nlg-npap.org.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
National Lawyers Guild
Scope and Contents
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) website holds materials related to Know Your Rights/Risks manuals; Law for the People convention proceedings; the Guild Notes newsletter; the Guild Practitioner journal; the NLG Review; annual reports; referral directories; chapter information; amicus curiae briefs; mass defense briefs; committee information; the legal observer program; fellowships; press releases; news; governance; and their campaigns. Areas focused on by the NLG include the right to protest, international solidarity, prison abolition, labor and employment, legal education, environmental justice, drug policy, and political prisoner release. The website underwent redesigns in circa 2010, 2012, and 2017.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/http://www.nlg.org/
National Immigration Project
Scope and Contents
In 2020, the website redirected from http://www.nationalimmigrationproject.org/ to https://nipnlg.org/.
Historical Note
The National Immigration Project provides assistance and support to legal practitioners, immigrant communities, community-based organizations, and advocates seeking and working to advance the rights of non-United States citizens.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/http://www.nationalimmigrationproject.org/
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/https://nipnlg.org/
International Committee
Scope and Contents
The National Lawyers Guild International Committee website contains news, information on its subcommittees (Task Force on the Americas, Palestine Subcommittee, Cuba Subcommittee, Indigenous Peoples' Rights Committee, Africa Subcommittee, Haiti Subcommittee, Middle East North Africa Action Group, Human Rights Framework Project, Agent Orange Working Group, Puerto Rico Subcommittee, and Article 9 Working Group), event listings, and publications.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/https://nlginternational.org/
National Police Accountability Project
Historical Note
National Police Accountability Project is a non-profit membership organization of plaintiff's lawyers, law students and legal workers dedicated to ending law enforcement and detention officer abuse of authority through coordinated legal action, public education, and support for grassroots and victims' organizations combating misconduct.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/https://www.nlg-npap.org/
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/https://engage.nlg-npap.org/
New York City Chapter
Scope and Contents
The National Lawyers Guild New York City Chapter website contains information on their governance; their foundation; the Parole Preparation Project; committees regarding environmental justice, animal rights, mass incarceration, mass defense, labor and employment, immigration, and restorative justice; student chapters; events and news; press releases; job postings; resources and training regarding legal observers and know your rights, and a referral directory. In 2020, the website added a section regarding the George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter Civil Litigation Task Force.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/https://nlgnyc.org/
Military Law Task Force
Scope and Contents
The Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild website contains their quarterly journal On Watch; information on governance; news on Military Law practice and training, GI rights and counseling, advocacy, analysis, and opinion; press releases; position statements, training and education materials; Military Law library; memoranda on desertion, command influence, individual ready reserves, dissent and whistleblowers, casualty assistance, discharges, and military sexual violence; other publications; book reviews; and convention materials.
Historical Note
The Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild is an organization of radical lawyers and legal workers interested in draft, military, and veterans issues.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/https://nlgmltf.org/
Labor and Employment Committee
Scope and Contents
The Labor and Employment Committee website contains information on their annual meetings and national events in concert with the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee; steering committee members; mentorship program; job postings; press releases; newsletter; resources on economic rights, elections, employment, immigration, injured workers, international issues labor, mass defense, OSHA, wage and hour, and Worker Centers; and projects related to Amicus, Immigrant Workers, International Labor, International Cuba Research, Labor Law Issues, Mass Defense, organizing Labor, Occupational Safety & Health, Section 7 Rights, Solidarity, Voter Protection, Worker Centers, Working America, and other action as needed.
Historical Note
The Labor and Employment Committee of the National Lawyers Guild is a non-profit unincorporated legal association engaged in legal education and advocacy.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/http://nlg-laboremploy-comm.org/
Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook
Scope and Contents
The Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook is a resource for incarcerated people who wish to file a federal lawsuit addressing poor conditions in prison or abuse by prison staff. It also contains limited general information about the American legal system. The guide was put together by the National Lawyers Guild and the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/http://jailhouselaw.org/
Mass Incarceration Committee
Scope and Contents
The website contains information on the Old Law Prisoner Project and the Political Prisoner Working Group.
Historical Note
The Mass Incarceration Committee works to "disrupt and abolish carceral systems." The provide support to jailhouse lawyers and political prisoners through letter writing; the monitoring of prison and jail retaliation and neglect; educational programming; rapid response of prison uprisings; and litigation.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/https://www.nlgmic.org/
