In coordination with NLG Chapters across America, join us as Pittsburgh lawyers, law workers, students, and friends say together: the new Regime's racial and religious bigotry, xenophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, and homophobia violate our core principles of democracy. The legal community strikes back on #F17 in a peaceful demonstration of solidarity. Make signs, bring your colleagues, and join us!
Speakers will include:
✔ Guillermo Perez of USW Education Department, who is active in the Latin American Labor Council of Pittsburgh and nationwide. He most recently worked in part to defend Martin E. during the deportation and removal proceedings against the family. (http://
✔ Amanda Green Hawkins of USW is the Director of the Civil and Human Rights Department and Assistant General Councsel. She served two terms as an elected Councilmember on Allegheny County Council where she represented 100,000 Pittsburgh residents. While there, she was unfazed by public pressure when she sponsored Countywide legislation that now prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression. Ms. Green Hawkins has served on a nationwide Labor, Employment and Workplace Committee for the Obama-Biden Campaign, and volunteers during general elections as a voter-protection attorney because everyone should vote and every vote should be counted. She also served on the Board of the Port Authority of Allegheny County, a local transit agency, because viable and reliable public transportation is key to sustainable economic and job growth.
✔ Jon Pushnisky is the chairperson of the Greater Pittsburgh ACLU's Legal Committee. He maintains a privagte practice in Pittsburgh where he concentrates in the areas of civil rights/civil liberties and appellate litigation, and practices before all levels of the state and federal courts. Previously, Mr. Pushinsky has litigated numerous cases involving separation of church and state, free exercise of religion, employment, housing and education discrimination, and free speech issues. He was nominated for an appointment to the Pennsylvania Superior Court by the Acting Governor in 1993. Mr. Pushinsky was awarded the 1991 Annual Civil Liberties Award of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and was the recipient of the United Jewish Federation’s 1997 Sonia and Aaron Levinson Community Relations Award for his demonstrated leadership in advancing intergroup relations and social justice.
✔ Emily Collins in the Executive Director and Managing Attorney with Fair Shake Legal Services. Emily has spent her legal career in environmental law practice and teaching. In 2008, she took the helm of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law's Environmental Law Clinic as a Clinical Assistant Professor. She became a Clinical Associate Professor in 2013. In the same year, she founded Fair Shake ELS. Emily has published numerous law journals and is a frequent speaker on environmental issues, environmental permitting and enforcement and public participation in environmental decision-making. http://