CLDC Supporting Standing Rock
CLDC attorneys, Lauren Regan & Cooper Brinson, arrived at the Sacred Stone camp today to provide additional legal support to the movement in North Dakota. They will be at the camp for a week and we will be making regular trips back every month to provide legal...
Prison & Capitalism
Sunday marked one month since the start of the September 9th national prisoner strike here in the U.S. We thought we’d mark this historical occasion by briefly commenting on just a few aspects of the U.S. prison system. In the 1970’s and 80’s, while jobs were being...
A Few Bad Apples?
When the System is Rooted in White Supremacy “The system worked in the sense that it performed the function it was designed to perform; to kill Black people and either justify it, cover it up, or both. This is the system, this has always been the system, and...
Courts across the nation reject voter suppression laws
Over the past few weeks, courts across the nation have rejected a number of state laws that were recently passed with the intent to restrict access to vote. Although the sponsors of the various state laws claim that the laws are intended to “prevent voter...