Celebrate #GivingTuesday
Join us in celebrating Giving Tuesday, by making a gift to support our work. 2015 has been a big year for direct action and the CLDC. We worked with activists in Seattle and Portland as they held #ShellNo protests to stop shell from drilling in the arctic (which was...
Transgender and Imprisoned
By Judah Largent, CLDC Law Clerk Prison holds a particular set of horrors for the transgender community. Until recently, American prisons housed transgender inmates by genitalia[1], and gender-confirming treatments of any kind were unavailable to the vast majority of...
Urban League of Portland calls for Answers to Electronic Surveillance
It has been discovered that the Oregon Department of Justice has been conducting digital surveillance on Oregonians who used the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. The Urban League of Portland and others have released a letter which can be found here:...
Big News: We’ve hired two new associate attorneys
Since 2003 the Civil Liberties Defense Center has been defending activists involved in progressive social change. In just 12 years we have represented more than 2,000 activists across the country and trained countless more through our “Know Your Rights”...
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