Update from the Frontlines in North Dakota

Update from the Frontlines in North Dakota

It is 6am on Friday morning and Cooper and I have been working about 18 hours a day since we arrived at the Standing Rock and Red Warrior Camps here in North Dakota. Our intentions were to come and plug into the amazing organizing and legal support that has gone on...
Legal Support for #ShutItDown Activists

Legal Support for #ShutItDown Activists

Yesterday, 10 activists, support team members, and videographers are spending the night in jail across four states for shutting down the importation of tar sands oil into the United States this morning, and taking action to avert climate cataclysm. CLDC is providing...
CLDC Supporting Standing Rock

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

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?

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

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...

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