Suzanne Adely
Suzanne Adely President, National Lawyers Guild
Bio
From the National Lawyers Guild International Committee website:[1]
- Suzanne Adely is a graduate of City University of New York School of Law. Co-chair of the International Committee, she is also a founder of the Middle East, North Africa Labor Solidarity Network in the U.S. Prior to working with the UAW she was a civil rights coordinator with Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) in Queens, NY, and a legal worker with the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (Cairo). Suzanne is also a longtime organizer. In Chicago, she worked on campaigns with the Arab American Action Network and the Chicago Coalition to Protect People's Rights, challenging War on Terror policies. Suzanne has been active in anti-war and Palestine solidarity organizing in the U.S. since her youth. Suzanne is the daughter of Jordanian workers and grew up in Yonkers, New York. For 10 years, she worked as a high school teacher in New York City and Cairo. She is a long-time member of Al-Awda-NY, the National Lawyers Guild, and the Defend the Egyptian Revolution Committee of New York. This past spring Suzanne organized an NLG delegation which brought U.S. lawyers to Egypt.
Pro-Hamas Letter
In the wake of a terror attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, Harvard University students signed an open letter blaming Israel. After the students received negative media coverage, the ANSWER Coalition jumped to their defense in an open letter titled: "Open letter against intimidation at Harvard: Defend the freedom to speak in support of Palestine!" Suzanne Adely signed the letter. Excerpt:[2]
- We stand together against the racist harassment and demonization of Pro-Palestine student activists at Harvard and elsewhere across the country. These attacks are designed to intimidate, weaken, and silence people's right to speak out in support of the Palestinian people's struggle against occupation and apartheid. Their educational and professional futures are being threatened and right wing political operatives have even rented a TV truck to drive around campus displaying the students' faces. Some are even receiving death threats..."
Activism
- Co-Chair at National Lawyers Guild International Committee
- Works at International Association of Democratic Lawyers
- Former Global Organizer at UAW International Union
- Former Organizer at Arab American Action Network
IADL
In 2016, Associate Members of the Bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers included Americans Beth Lyons, and Suzanne Adely.[3]
Comrades
Joann Lo September 5, 2019 ·
— with Elizabeth Blair and Christina Spach, Jose Lopez, Sonia Singh, Suzanne Adely, Jose Oliva.
NY protest
Joe Catron May 19, 2018 ·
With Nadine Kay, Suzanne Adely, Nerdeen Kiswani and Izabela Qafa.
Left Forum 2016
Intifada in America: The History of the Palestine Left in the United States
- Dan Cione, Chair New York City Students for Justice in Palestine
- Suzanne Adely Labor for Palestine
- Nerdeen Kiswani New York City Students for Justice in Palestine
- Mohammed Nabulsi Palestine Solidarity Committee (Austin)
Labor 4 Palestine
- Michael Letwin, Chair Former President, ALAA/UAW L. 2325 (NYC)
- Suzanne Adely Global Workers Solidarity Network; Global Organizing Institute, UAW (NYC)
- Clarence Thomas Million Worker March; ILWU Local 10, retired, Oakland CA
- Jaime Veve Transport Workers Union Local 100, retired