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LULAC members from Thurgood Marshall School of Law will be interviewed regarding the Free Legal Clinic on campus targeting the low-income Latino community.

VOLUNTEERS WANTED

LULAC LEGAL CLINIC

Saturday/ Sabado, April 15, 2009

9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Texas Southern University, 3100 Cleburne Street, Houston, TX 77004

PURPOSE: To provide free legal services and advice at a one-day legal clinic targeting the low-income Latino community of Houston, Texas.

Types of Cases/ Tipos de Casos
· Immigration/ Inmigracíon
· Criminal
· Property/ Propiedad
· Employment / Ley de Trabajo
· Family Law/ Casos de Familia

VOLUNTEERS WANTED

Please email us the following information to LULACLawStudents@yahoo.com:

ATTORNEY VOLUNTEERS:
Name, phone, email
Firm name
Practice area
Years practicing

Graduate of Thurgood Marshall School of Law?
Board certified?
Speak Spanish?
Willing to take cases pro bono?

What time can you volunteer on Saturday?

NON-ATTORNEY VOLUNTEERS:

Name, Phone, Email,
Occupation
School

Law student? Year?
Speak Spanish?

What time can you volunteer on Saturday?

Please help us spread the word.

LULAC Legal Clinic Co-Sponsors

Legal Clinic

The LULAC Legal Clinic is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, April 25, 2009 at Thurgood Marshall School of Law.

More information will follow.

NAACP Houston Legal Clinic-March 14

Dear TMSL Students,

Planning is underway for our LULAC Legal Clinic that will occur on Saturday, April 11, 2009 at the Ripley House! Several Organizations are co-sponsoring, including HLSA, NAACP Houston Legal Redress Clinic, the TMSL Institute for International & Immigration Law, FIEL (Familias Inmigrantes y Estudiantes en la Lucha), CRECEN, and several others that we are solidifying. Our volunteer coordinators & committee will be contacting you soon with information on how you can volunteer.

In the meantime, one of our co-sponsors, the NAACP Houston Legal Clinic will be hosting a free legal clinic in a majority-Latino neighborhood on Saturday, March 14, 2009 from 9 to 12 p.m. They need Spanish-speakers to help translate for the volunteer attorneys. It's a great experience for law students.

If you can spare 1-3 hours to help translate on this date, please email me at NeaveV@yahoo.com with your name, phone # and email address.

Have a great day!

Sincerely,
Victoria Neave, President
LULAC Law Students #4900

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LULAC Legal Clinic-Volunteer Coordinators

Dear TMSL Law Student,

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Law Student Chapter #4900 is planning an extraordinary event on Saturday, April 11, 2009 at the Ripley House: the LULAC LEGAL CLINIC!

Our LULAC LEGAL CLINIC will provide free legal services at a one-day clinic targeting the Latino community of Houston, Texas regarding immigration law, criminal law, property law (including housing and landlord/ tenant issues), employment/ labor law, and family law issues.

We will be interviewing 1Ls, 2Ls, & 3Ls for the following positions:

VOLUNTEER COORDINATORS- Non-attorney Volunteers
VOLUNTEER COORDINATORS- Attorney Volunteers
Volunteer Committee Members

We are looking for outgoing, professional, organized team-players who will take the lead in recruiting attorney and non-attorney volunteers (law students, translators, etc.) from the community.

Interviews will occur on Thursday, February 26, 2009 from 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. You may sign up online at the HLSA TWEN page for your 15-minute time slot.

We expect this event to be to be heavily publicized, to garner the support of the community, and to be co-sponsored by multiple community organizations, including TMSL Hispanic Law Student Association.

If you have any questions, please email LULACLawStudents@yahoo.com.

Sincerely,

LULAC Law Students #4900
Thurgood Marshall School of Law

Hernandez v. Texas Documentary

Dear Law Students,

We invite you to attend a special event on Monday, February 16, 2009 regarding the landmark Supreme Court case, Hernandez v. Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954), that LULAC played a role in. http://www.lulac.org/about/history.html Our advisor, Professor Lupe Salinas, will be speaking on the panel.

We will be planning a carpool to leave the law school at a time to be announced.

However, seats are very limited so please RSVP here: http://www.houstonpbs.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=3181. Only 36 seats were left a little while ago. You can RSVP for up to 2 people.

If you would like to join us, please email us at neavev@yahoo.com after you've RSVP'd so that we can know how many people to expect, whether you are willing to drive, and how many people you can fit in your vehicle.We hope you can join us!

Sincerely,
LULAC Law Students #4900
Thurgood Marshall School of Law

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Talento Bilingüe de Houston
333 S. Jensen Dr .
Houston , TX 77003-1115

http://www.tbhcente%20r.com/February 16, 2009

VIP Reception 6-6:45pm Screening 7-8pm Panel 8-8:30pm

Join HoustonPBS and filmmaker Carlos Sandovalfor a special preview screening and panel discussion A Class Apart. Click here to watch a preview.

The first major film to bring to life the heroic post-World War II struggles of Mexican Americans against the Jim Crow-style discrimination targeted against them, A Class Apart is built around the landmark 1951 civil rights Hernandez vs. Texas, in which an underdog band of Mexican Americans from Texas bring a case all the way to the Supreme Court - and win.

Panelists:
Ms. Maida Asofsky, ACLU
Alberto Cardenas, Vinson & Elkins
Francisco Rodriguez, LULAC
Carlos Sandoval, Filmmaker

A Class Apart premieres Monday, February 23 on “American Experience” at 8pm on HoustonPBS Channel 8. A Class Apart is presented in partnership with Active Voice and Camino Bluff

Banner photo credit: Lee (Russell) Photograph Collection, Center for American History UT-Austin; John J Herrera Collection, Houston Public Library; San Antonio Light Collection, UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures,Courtesy of the Hearst Corporation.

This preview is co-presented by HoustonPBS and our partners at The Southwest Alternate Media Project In cooperation with NALIP-Houston

UPDATE

INFO TABLE IN LOBBY: Monday, October 6 to Wednesday, October 8

FIRST MEETING: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 10 a.m., room t.b.a.

EMAIL: LULACLawStudents@yahoo.com

Salinas quoted by U.S. Supreme Court!

Please join us in congratulating our advisor, Judge Lupe Salinas, who was recently cited by the United States Supreme Court in the landmark lethal injection case!

From Justice Stevens’ concurrence:

"Full recognition of the diminishing force of the principal rationales for retaining the death penalty should lead this Court and legislatures to reexamine the question recently posed by Professor Salinas, a former Texas prosecutor and judge: "Is it time to Kill the Death Penalty?" See Salinas, 34 Am. J. Crim. L. 39 (2006). The time for a dispassionate, impartial comparison of the enormous costs that death penalty litigation imposes on society with the benefits that it produces has surely arrived. Baze v. Rees, 2008 U.S. LEXIS 3476, 82-83 (U.S. Apr. 16, 2008)

LULAC NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE

LULAC National Press Release:

Top Woman Leaders to Participate in LULAC National Women’s Conference in San Antonio , Texas
Premiere Latina Event to Honor LULAC National President Rosa Rosales

Washington , DC —The LULAC National Women’s Conference will be held on March 14-15 in San Antonio , Texas at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa located at 9800 Hyatt Resort Drive . “Today’s Women—Visionaries Shaping Our Nation’s Leadership” is the theme of this year’s conference.

“As we celebrate our 79th Anniversary fighting for civil rights, Latinas have made tremendous strides in holding positions of influence within American society,” said LULAC National President Rosa Rosales. “I am humbled to be serving another year as your National President and proud to announce that women are serving in more LULAC national, state and local elected positions than ever before. We are confident that the future will see Latinas making greater inroads into the non-profit, government, business, and political sectors of our country, as our community begins to realize its full potential.”

“We invite the public to attend our dynamic sessions featuring inspirational stories and strategies for success as well as our Latina Expo and silent auction held during the conference,” said LULAC National Vice-President for Women Margaret Moran. “We are delighted to offer the LULAC National Women’s Conference during Women’s History Month which recognizes the achievements of women in all facets of life—science, community, government, literature, art, sports and medicine.”

The workshops and exhibits are open to the public. AGENDA: http://www.lulac.org/events/women/wagenda2008.html

LULAC CIVIL RIGHTS TRAINING

This coming Saturday, the LULAC District is hosting a Civil Rights Training/ Forum for LULAC members and activists.

LULAC Civil Rights Forum
9:00 AM to 2:30 PM
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Ripley House
4410 Navigation
Houston, Texas 77011 (2nd Floor; Room 209)

"The Forum is designed for our members to learn how to address or request for assistance from the general Houston population. The primary focus is on civil rights issues and is being the presented by the Co-Chairs of the LULAC National Civil Rights Commission, Ms. Mary Louise Ramos and Richard Sambrano. They have enlisted the Department of Justice and other civil rights activists to participate and present real life scenarios."

Some of you may remember meeting our LULAC National Civil Rights Chair, Mr. Sambrano, who came down from Dallas to speak at our LULAC Hunger Strike Press Conference. Some consider him a living legend for the work that he's done across the nation in the area of civil rights.

If you are interested in attending, please email LULACLawStudents@yahoo.com with your name & phone number because we need to give the District the names asap.

Gracias!

TMSL LULAC Law Students #4900

2008-2009 OFFICERS

OFFICER	NAME	CLASS OF
President	Victoria Neave	2009
Vice President	Juan Vargas	2010
Vice President for Publicity	Angie Mendoza Guinn	2009
Vice President for Youth	Eduardo Martinez	2009
Secretary	Liliana Castillo	2010
Treasurer	Alma Reyes	2009
Parliamentarian	Mark Scott	2009
Historian	Daney De La O	2009
Sergeant at Arms	Melissa Bazan	2009
Fundraising	-open-	--

Texas Supreme Court Candidate, Justice Linda Yanez

LULAC Law students welcome Texas Supreme Court Candidate, Justice Linda Yanez on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2008 AT 12:00 P.M, tmsl Room tba.

Justice Yanez is currently serving on the 13th Court of appeals and is the first Latina to be appointed to an appellate court in the history of the state of Texas. She received her LLM from the University of Virginia Law School and her Bachelors of Arts from the University of Texas-Pan American. Most importantly she is a graduate of TMSL! Justice Yanez was a former Harvard Law School clinical instructor and has been a guest lecturer at the Law School at the University of Valencia in Valencia, Spain.

She served on and chaired numerous committees and boards, for the State Bar Associations in Texas, Illinois and Massachusetts and nationally the American Bar Association. Justice Yanez served as consulting attorney to the Mexican Consul Generals in Brownsville, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts and on the Legal Advisory Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She served as Regional Counsel to the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund. We invite everyone to join us in welcoming this outstanding TMSL graduate.

http://www.lindayanez.com/home/

Gracias!

TMSL LULAC Law Students

2008-2009 Officers

Congratulations to the newly elected 2008-2009 officers!

President, Victoria Neave (2L)

Vice President, Juan Vargas (1L)

Vice President of Publicity, Angie Mendoza Guinn (2L)

Vice President for Fundraising, Marco DeLuna (3L)

Vice President for Youth, Eduardo Martinez (2L)

Secretary, Liliana Castillo (1L)

Treasurer, Alma Reyes (2L)

Parliamentarian, Mark Scott (2L)

Historian, Daney De La O (2L)

Sergeant at Arms, Melissa Bazan (2L)

Alumni Project Chair, Daney De La O (2L)

HUNGER FOR HUMANITY

Beginning Monday, October 8, 2007 through Friday, October 12, 2007, members of the LULAC Law Students Chapter will exercise our rights to freedom of speech and assembly by conducting a peaceful demonstration in the form of an on-campus hunger fast for five days to bring awareness to immigrant issues. As symbolic speech, we will set up tents for overnight stay next to the law school.

Project Purpose: We will educate the community about immigration issues and human rights. We will distribute literature and hope to spread a message of tolerance and respect for humanity. This project will occur during Latino Heritage Month as we honor the contributions of Latinos to society.

LULAC MENTOR PROGRAM @ Jack Yates High School

• WHERE TO MEET: We will meet in the lobby of TMSL at 2:30 p.m. and walk across the street to Jack Yates High School. For those of you with class until 2:50 p.m., we will have a second group of law students meet in the TMSL lobby by 2:55 p.m.and walk to Jack Yates immediately thereafter.


• DATES: October 3, 2007; October 17, 2007; October 31, 2007; November 14, 2007
• WHEN: 2:45 - 3:45, every other Wednesday
• WHERE: Jack Yates High School Cafeteria


• ABOUT PROGRAM: We will EMPOWER, EDUCATE, TUTOR, MENTOR, & INSPIRE 100 Latino students at Jack Yates High School. Together, we can instill some amazing values into these malleable teens who may lack direction, guidance, motivation, and role models. If we combine our strengths and harness the student’s enthusiasm, we can mold them into contributing members of society and assets to our country. Our goal is to ensure that these students do not fall through the cracks and to ensure that they attend college.


• TO BE A MENTOR: Please email LULACLawStudents@yahoo.com with your name, phone, email, year and feel free to tell us in what other capacities you could assist us. We need TMSL role models to help us as we have the ability to instill hope and leadership skills in the next generation.

In addition, the Jack Yates students from our program last year and their teachers organized and have invited us to attend a Latino Heritage Month Celebration on Monday October 1, 2007 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Yates Cafeteria. They will have student presentations, salsa lessons, tres leches cake, and more!

5-DAY HUNGER STRIKE FOR IMMIGRANTS

Beginning Monday, October 8, 2007 through Friday, October 12, 2007, members of the LULAC Law Students Chapter will exercise our rights to freedom of speech and assembly by conducting a peaceful demonstration in the form of an on-campus hunger fast for five days to bring awareness to immigrant issues. As symbolic speech, we will set up tents for overnight stay in the area next to the picnic tables near the law school.

Project Purpose: We will educate the community about immigration issues and human rights. We will distribute literature to those that approach us and hope to spread a message of tolerance and respect for humanity. This project will occur during Latino Heritage Month as we honor the contributions of Latinos to society.

If you are interested in participating, then please join us on the following dates with your research and/ or ideas as we develop our platform:

Training & Development of Platform with Judge Lupe Salinas
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
5:30 p.m.
Room TBA

Training & Development of Platform with Dean Fernando Colon- Navarro
Week of October 1, 2007. Date/ Time/ Room TBA

September Meeting