The National Lawyers Guild is
an association dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure
of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law
students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers of America in an
organization that shall function as an effective political and social
force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall
be regarded as more sacred than property interests.
Our aim is to bring together all those who recognize the importance of
safeguarding and extending the rights of workers, women, farmers,
people with disabilities and people of color, upon whom the welfare of
the entire nation depends; who seek actively to eliminate racism; who
work to maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties in the face
of persistent attacks upon them; and who look upon the law as an
instrument for the protection of the people, rather than for their
repression.
National Lawyers Guild is a student organization of the University of Wisconsin Law School.