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The National Lawyers Guild is an activist group with a long list of goals, meant to change the ‘structure of our political and economic system.’
When President Donald Trump designated Antifa a domestic terrorist organization last week, critics attacked the move, calling Antifa merely an idea.
Ideas don’t need lawyers, yet the Antifa-affiliated nonprofit National Lawyers Guild (NLG) exists in part to offer legal services to other Antifa organizations. NLG describes itself as anti-fascist, and it is directly connected to violent Antifa protest groups and individuals, because it shows up at their demonstrations, protests and riots, and advocates for those who get arrested.
NLG trains activists to be “legal observers” at riots. Once trained, these observers get a distinctive fluorescent green hat, a pad of paper, and attend events that align with NLG’s mission and leftist values, according to its website. They are not necessarily attorneys, but are there to watch law enforcement and connect arrested protesters with NLG. The hallmark of protests with Antifa anarchists is violence. NLG observers come prepared with helmets.
Among its goals, NLG aims to abolish prisons, police, and “all aspects of systems and institutions that support, condone, create, fill, or protect prisons, including jails, police lock ups, juvenile detention facilities, immigration detention centers, involuntary psychiatric treatment centers, and other institutional settings in which people are held against their will.”
That is why NLG “stands in support,” of the loosely organized Antifa group accused of attempted murder for the July 4, attack on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Texas. Officials say the group ambushed the facility, shooting fireworks and bullets at the building.
LAPD has kettled a large group of protestors at 3rd and Alameda. Far-left National Lawyers Guild activists are visible with their lime green caps.
— R. Augustine Sánchez 🏴☠️ (@ryanasanchez) June 10, 2025
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“Making noise outside of jails is an extremely common form of protest,” NLG reasons in a statement that minimizes how the group terrorized workers at the facility. “One officer claimed to have sustained a minor injury to his neck by what the state claims was a gunshot. In response, the government has arrested 16 people, some through raids and traffic stops. Yet, through all of the federal government’s criminal complaints, only two people have been described as alleged shooters.” So yes, an officer was shot, but he was only shot a little bit, in NLG’s world. --->READ MORE HERE
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The government must immediately remove any federal funding from schools that commiserate with terrorists and arrest anyone aiding them.
The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Graduate Center has an English course called “Global Antifa” that is “oriented towards militant co-research” developing “research projects that contribute to the work of global movements fighting fascism.”
Militant research, according to a paper from Newcastle University, “prioritises political struggle over the academic pursuit of knowledge” where the “researcher must become an active participant in a political movement, while still doing research – it essentially means devoting lots of time to working as an activist or as an organiser.”
In other words, that method would have students be active members of Antifa, not just embedding with them, but potentially participating in violence and destruction with them. It “seeks different ways to generate knowledge, with a particular focus on processes and methods, and it offers a blurring of the boundaries between activism/organising and research, between researcher and researched, and between theory and practice.”
According to the course syllabus, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by Defending Education, the class “surveys and draws on these antifascist traditions, linking them to a deep engagement with racial justice, anti-imperialist movements, intersectional feminism, and an analysis of the changing character and contradictions of capitalism” and “begins from the premise that racialized and colonized peoples have been at the forefront of theorizing, challenging, and dismantling fascism, white supremacy, and other modes of authoritarian rule over the last century.”
“The syllabus reveals an insidious side of academia where professors use the time honored tradition of academic freedom as cover to indoctrinate students into the far-left anti-fascist ideology,” Defending Education Director of Research Rhyen Staley told The Federalist. “What is even more concerning is that this course appears to also double as a series of strategy sessions intended to develop new tactics for improved radical acts of street activism. Courses such as this have no place in American institutions of higher education.”
The course is taught by Professor Ashley Dawson, who in 2024 was named a Social Practice Fellow for the Peaker Project, which is “designed to bring together the resources of academic research institutions and the activism of creative practitioners, mobilize CUNY’s interdisciplinary arts fields, and help diversify M.F.A. graduates in New York City.” --->READ MORE HERE
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