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Selma Goode being arrested during the 1995 Detroit newspaper strikes.
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RON SCOTT for a life-time of work in support of human rights for all, And, thanks and congratulates
SELMA GOODE ANDREW GODDEERIS SEAN RIDDELL For all their work on the side of people!
www.sugarlaw.org
@sugarlawjustice
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Of Counsel:
Hugh "Buck" Davis Cynthia Heenan
Shaun Godwin Scott Mackela John C. Philo
Constitutional Litigation Associates, P.C. 450 W. Fort St, Suite 200 Detroit, MI 48226 Telephone: 313-961-2255 info@conlitpc.com
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In honor and loving memory of Ron Scott, who dedicated his life to building a more just Detroit and to Selma Goode, Andy Goddeeris, and Sean Riddell for fighting for people over profit. We salute you! National Lawyers Guild - National Office 132 Nassau St., Rm 922 New York, NY 10038 212-679-5100 www.nlg.org
Ron is sadly gone, but his legacy lives on in the work of all those striving for equality and social justice. *** Selma, we thank you for a lifetime of commitment and action in the struggle.
Ken Mogill, Margie Cohen and Jon Posner Mogill, Posner & Cohen 3060 Penobscot Bldg, Detroit MI 48226 27 E Flint St, 2nd Floor, Lake Orion MI 48362
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For being there, for showing up, for knowing our rights and teaching them, for legally observing in Kermit green hats, for intuiting the next place of action and going there, for having an emergency cell phone number to write on our palms, for endless meetings with rambling and loquacious clients, for making legal spaces humanly accessible, for rolling with the mystery of clients defending themselves, for briefs that carry the truth if not the day (and sometimes both), for being a guild a team a movement, for remembering history and honoring the ancestors, for telling the story in late hours at the anchor bar, for the sleeplessness of night and waking anyway to the day, for opening movement in the law, for taking on losing cases, for winning against all odds, for hanging Detroit Corporation Counsel out to dry, for de facto belief in a higher authority, for classy action, for street law, for closing arguments that walk a bold fine line, for honoring the last vestige of democracy under emergency management, for being brutally frank at press conferences, for calling lies by name and letting the chips fall, for claiming the law not as master but as servant of justice‌ Thank you from Water Warriors All. The Homrich 9: Hans Barbe, Baxter Jones, Marian Kramer, Marianne McGuire, David Olson, Jim Perkinson, Kim Redigan, Joan Smith, Bill WylieKellermann
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