Homelessness and the reserve army of labor
Submitted by Cooper Brinson, CLDC Staff Attorney At the end of last year, the mayors of Eugene, Portland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco gathered to discuss homelessness and climate change. On my way home from the office the other night, I heard a recording of the...
Federal appeals court finds police use of taser on nonviolent bystander to be unlawful
Last week, in Kent v Oakland County, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision finding that police officers could not be shielded from a civil rights lawsuit by a victim of excessive police force involving a taser. In the case, a local doctor had called...
Fighting corporate SLAPPs, from the streets to the courtroom
It’s been several months since a Washington State District Court granted four anti-harassment orders against me from Chris Toher, Lew Guerrette, Dave Harrison, and James McReynolds. Now we are finally approaching the culmination of the appeal of those orders,...
Know Your Rights resources available in Arabic
With the increasingly abusive Islamophobic response that has been coming from ignorant individuals within the United States, the CLDC will continue to stand strongly with our Muslim and/or Middle Eastern community members. A couple of ways the CLDC will stand in...
