Signal: Activist Best Practices

Signal isn’t perfect and we’re not certain it’s designed with activists in mind–for instance, you and your friends can’t use it without all using real phone numbers. But still, Signal takes almost zero time or training and equips...

What is Doxing? Can it Be Prevented?

Doxing is the practice of collecting personal info (public or private) and publishing it online.  It has been used as a means of intimidation and harassment and CLDC has been asked more than once “what if it happens to me?” The easiest way to be doxed is...
Trump’s Climate Bullies

Trump’s Climate Bullies

If you troll the internet these days, you might think that SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) and RICO (racketeering) cases may seem to be growing in regularity against environmental activists. In reality, if you compare the tiny number of SLAPP...
More thoughts on Charlottesville

More thoughts on Charlottesville

As a devout Jewish child who grew up attending synagogue and Hebrew School, from a very young age I was constantly surrounded by stories of the Holocaust – how Hitler took advantage of economic conditions, found an easy-to-identify “other” for a scapegoat, and rose to...

Digital Security Action Items

So our goal isn’t perfect digital security. That’s impossible what the woods are for! But what is our goal? I say, let’s make it hard for nazis, cops, and mercenaries to get all internal movement comms and adorable puppy photos. Make it so they need...

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