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June 2023

A Year Without Roe

By |2023-06-26T10:43:19-07:00June 23rd, 2023|Categories: Featured, News|Tags: , , , |

Every summer, CLDC is honored to host future movement attorneys as part of our law clerk program. This year our clerks are an impressive group. Many of them went to law school after years of movement involvement with the hopes of expanding their impact.

We invited B, a third-year law […]

May 2023

Celebrating 20 Years: New Merch!

By |2023-05-15T12:56:58-07:00May 15th, 2023|Categories: Featured, Uncategorized|Tags: , |

As our 20th anniversary party draws near, we’re launching a pre-sale for hoodies, t-shirts, and stickers featuring our new logo! The pre-sale begins today, May 15, and runs through May 29. All of our shirts and stickers are printed by the Gloo Factory, a community-minded union print shop […]

April 2023

20 Years Later, We STILL Have Your Back

By |2023-04-19T10:51:14-07:00April 19th, 2023|Categories: Featured, Fundraising, News|Tags: , , , , |

Having been an activist in high school and college, I went to law school because I wanted to be as useful as possible in order to save the planet and its inhabitants.  After a few years as an environmental lawyer suing the Forest Service and other governmental agencies, […]

January 2023

Five Suggestions for When State Repression Comes to Town

By |2023-01-25T09:59:52-08:00January 25th, 2023|Categories: Featured, News, Resources, Security|Tags: , , , , |

Five Suggestions for When State Repression Comes to Town

CLDC has been providing movement aligned legal support to the campaigns and activists in the so called U.S. for over 20 years now.  In that time period, I have personally witnessed numerous waves of state repression targeting the […]

City of Eugene Drops Charges Against Houseless Advocate

By |2023-01-23T08:08:18-08:00January 20th, 2023|Categories: Cases, Featured, News|Tags: , , , , |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 18, 2023

Contact:
Sarah Alvarez, Staff Attorney
(541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org

City of Eugene Drops Charges Against Houseless Advocate Who Spoke Out Against City Manager at the Downtown Riverfront Park Grand Opening

Eugene, Oregon—Sam Yergler, a Eugene resident and houseless advocate, was […]

November 2022

Monthly donors enable us to defend the defenders.

By |2022-11-23T08:58:41-08:00November 23rd, 2022|Categories: Featured, Fundraising, News|Tags: , |

Greetings of solidarity from all of us at CLDC!

By now many of you have likely received our end of year appeal in your mailboxes. We wanted to make a digital connection as well.

We work every day to defend the defenders through no-cost legal representation, movement-aligned legal education, and through […]

June 2022

Final Black Lives Matter activist arrested at Springfield protest exonerated in State Court

By |2022-09-22T15:55:09-07:00June 23rd, 2022|Categories: Cases, Featured, News, Protest|Tags: , |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 23, 2022

Contact:

Sarah Alvarez, Staff Attorney
(541) 687-9180
info@cldc.org

Final Black Lives Matter activist arrested at Springfield protest exonerated in State Court

Eugene, OR — Today, moments before a jury was to hear opening statements, the Deputy Lane County District Attorney abruptly moved to dismiss all charges against racial justice […]

May 2022

Two Years Later: the struggle against police killings of Black people continues

By |2022-05-31T16:45:09-07:00May 31st, 2022|Categories: Articles, Cases, Featured, News, Protest|Tags: , , , , , , |

Eugene, OR –May 25 marked two years since the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin. Though not the last Black man killed by militarized police, the outrage and heartbreak that flowed from his death spurred an uprising that continues today. 

April 2022

Statement from CLDC Executive Director Lauren Regan on Green Scare defendant Joseph Dibee plea agreement

By |2022-04-26T11:18:49-07:00April 21st, 2022|Categories: Featured, News|Tags: , , |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 21, 2022
From Lauren Regan, Director and Senior Staff Attorney, Civil Liberties Defense Center

On April 21, 2022 at 12:30 pm, Joseph Dibee had his federal change of plea hearing with Judge Ann Aiken by telephone only.

Dibee is one of the final individuals indicted in what is known […]

February 2022

New Legal Resources For Line 3 Water Protectors

By |2022-02-03T11:52:56-08:00February 3rd, 2022|Categories: Current Cases, Featured, News, Projects and Cases|Tags: , , , , , |

New Legal Resources For Line 3 Water Protectors

The Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) and the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC) are excited to announce a new partnership to boost legal representation capacity for Water Protectors who were arrested while defending Anishinaabe lands, the upper Mississippi watershed, and our […]

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