FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 26, 2021
Contacts:
Lauren Regan, Executive Director and Senior Staff Attorney
Civil Liberties Defense Center
info@cldc.org or (541) 687-9810
Bruce Shoemaker, Media Liaison
Water for Citizens of Weed California
bshoe@bitstream.net or (612) 770-9697
In an […]
TLDR: Just look for the –> arrows and do some of these things. If you only have capacity to do a few things, do one from each category, starting from the top.
Why are you making me read this?
As a movement, we’ve all been working hard together to adopt strong encryption […]
Yesterday, on January 5, 2021, the Trump regime issued a “memorandum” claiming immigrants “affiliated with antifa” should be deemed to be members of a terrorist organization and banned from immigrating into the United States.
This memo was issued at the same time the Trump administration fights backlash for trying to coerce […]
In June, CLDC gave you an update on the various civil rights cases that we and others have filed against the various local governments (and their employees) that violated Water Protectors’ civil rights during the 2016 and 2017 Standing Rock actions opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL.) As we […]
My maternal grandfather was born in 1914 and served in the Army during World War II. When he returned from the war in 1944, he took a job with the U.S. Postal Service as a “mailman.” He worked as a letter carrier, eventually becoming a supervisor, and was an active […]
July 25th is the International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners. Around the world, antifascist activists are languishing in prisons. It’s a minor inconvenience to take a very few minutes out of your day to write to a prisoner. But when they receive such a note, it is a […]
By: Sumit Kapur, CLDC Intern
The way we think about the world is conditioned by the knowledge that we are given from those that we place trust in.
This knowledge is not unfiltered—it is curated. In this country, the knowledge that we learn in schools is curated by state educational boards to […]
Longtime Green Scare anarchist prisoner Marius Mason is one of an increasing number of incarcerated people to be in grave danger due to the carceral State’s utter indifference to the health and safety of prisoners due to COVID-19 and systemic racism and excessive punishment of political prisoners.
According to the Marshall […]
June 5, 2020
Mayor Lucy Vinis
City Manager Sarah Medary, Pro Tem
Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner
Interim Fire Chief Chris Heppel
Oregon State Police Superintendent Travis Hampton
Governor Kate Brown and Staff
Oregon National Guard Major General Michael E. Stencel
Sent by Email Attachment to lvinis@eugene-or.gov;
smedary@eugene-or.gov; policechief@ci.eugene.or.us;
firedept@ci.eugene.or.us; travis.hampton@osp.oregon.gov;
orgov@hcrm.iconstituent.com; nik.blosser@oregon.gov;
constantin.severe@oregon.gov; agdd@mil.state.or.us;
tagor@mil.state.or.us
RE: City of Eugene Response to Recent Protests
To […]
“I bet that wasn’t in your threat model.” So the future of Keybase, perhaps CLDC’s most capable and secure recommendation for dissident organizers, is now in doubt, because of COVID-19. Thanks, coronavirus! The story so far: Zoom became very, very popular in a very, very short time […]
