Agenda:
The agenda is packed and includes:
Registration Fees:
A variety of fee options are available based on your membership status and which events you wish to attend. All are welcome and no one is turned away for lack of funds. See registration form for detailed fee breakdown.
Lodging:
If you are coming in from out of town there are a couple of lodging options (which you should notate on the registration form):
We are requesting that members avoid Air BnB and similar short-term rental websites:
At the 2016 Law for the People Convention, the National Lawyers Guild membership voted to boycott Air BnB and other short-term rental platforms and discourage their use for the purposes of conferences and event lodging. Here in New Orleans we are a city of renters, and we are suffering because of Air BnB. New Orleans was recently rated the second most unaffordable city in the country for renters. Three out of five renters spend more than 30% of their income in rent each month, and nearly two in five renters are paying more than 50%. Nearly four out of five cost-burdened rental households are Black. Air BnB has proliferated in recent years, contributing to our affordable housing crisis by taking entire homes off the rental market, and incentivising speculation by investors that leads to higher property taxes and rents. This winter our City Council voted to legalize whole home short term rentals for 90 days out of the year, without an adequate enforcement strategy.
In addition, Air BnB, recently began listing rentals in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and thus both the websites and their users glean profit from stolen land. These settlements are in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits an occupying power from moving its civilian population onto the land it is occupying.
The Louisiana Chapter of the NLG requests that you stand in solidarity with our local and international struggles against displacement, by staying at one of our two unionized hotels, an established bed and breakfast, or a homestay with an NLG member.
Hope you can make it to the regional! Contact Meghsha Barner at [email protected] with any questions or concerns.
The agenda is packed and includes:
- Friday, March 24: Day-long CLE on Louisiana’s non-unanimous jury system, an anomaly that undermines the right under the Sixth Amendment to a unanimous jury verdict in criminal cases.
- Saturday, March 25: Panels on Environmental Justice in the Gulf South, Mass Incarceration Reform in the Confederate South, and Criminalization of Immigrants and Muslims in the Age of Trump.
- Workshop on Secure Technologies for activists and advocates
- Anti-oppression training
- Hidden history tour and other social activities!
Registration Fees:
A variety of fee options are available based on your membership status and which events you wish to attend. All are welcome and no one is turned away for lack of funds. See registration form for detailed fee breakdown.
Lodging:
If you are coming in from out of town there are a couple of lodging options (which you should notate on the registration form):
- A block of double occupancy hotel rooms at one of NOLA’s two unionized hotels, the Loews. (These rooms are $249 per night and we can connect you with a roommate if you want to split it.) ** We are finalizing the contract with Loews. If you want to stay there, please elect that option on the registration form and we will contact you with the room rate code when it is available.
- Homestays with NLG members! (Free - we'll set you up!)
- New Orleans has a variety of licensed Bed and Breakfast options at various prices.
We are requesting that members avoid Air BnB and similar short-term rental websites:
At the 2016 Law for the People Convention, the National Lawyers Guild membership voted to boycott Air BnB and other short-term rental platforms and discourage their use for the purposes of conferences and event lodging. Here in New Orleans we are a city of renters, and we are suffering because of Air BnB. New Orleans was recently rated the second most unaffordable city in the country for renters. Three out of five renters spend more than 30% of their income in rent each month, and nearly two in five renters are paying more than 50%. Nearly four out of five cost-burdened rental households are Black. Air BnB has proliferated in recent years, contributing to our affordable housing crisis by taking entire homes off the rental market, and incentivising speculation by investors that leads to higher property taxes and rents. This winter our City Council voted to legalize whole home short term rentals for 90 days out of the year, without an adequate enforcement strategy.
In addition, Air BnB, recently began listing rentals in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and thus both the websites and their users glean profit from stolen land. These settlements are in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits an occupying power from moving its civilian population onto the land it is occupying.
The Louisiana Chapter of the NLG requests that you stand in solidarity with our local and international struggles against displacement, by staying at one of our two unionized hotels, an established bed and breakfast, or a homestay with an NLG member.
Hope you can make it to the regional! Contact Meghsha Barner at [email protected] with any questions or concerns.