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International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners: Flowers for the Rebels Caged
“June 11th is a reminder to us that though we spend our days outside of a prison many of our friends and allies spend theirs behind bars having sacrificed what little freedom they had to fight for something greater than themselves. We have a responsibility to them and...
The Legacy of Police Massacres: Tulsa’s “Black Wall Street” and Philadelphia’s MOVE Organization
100 years ago this week, on May 31 and June 1, 1921, mobs of white residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, from land and air. The white mob destroyed...
Journalist and Congressional Candidate Settles Civil Rights Suit Against Humboldt County and Two Sheriff’s Deputies for Abuse of Civil Rights
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2021 Contacts: Lauren Regan, Executive Director & Senior Staff Attorney Marianne Dugan, Senior Staff Attorney (541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org Journalist and Congressional Candidate Settles Civil Rights Suit Against Humboldt...
Loren Reed Accepts Non-cooperation Plea Agreement and is Released Pending Sentencing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2021 Contact: Chava Shapiro, Tucson Anti-Repression Crew (415) 857-0507 or Chava_tarc@protonmail.com Loren Reed Accepts Non-cooperation Plea Agreement and is Released Pending Sentencing Phoenix, Arizona – On May 5, 2021, Loren...
Communities Demand Accountability and an End to Chevron’s Pollution
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2021 Contacts: Shoshana Wechsler at swechs@sonic.net +1.510.332.4110 Nyunt Than at nyuntthan@gmail.com +1.510.220.1323 Paul Paz y Miño at paz@amazonwatch.org +1.510.773.4635 Communities Demand Accountability and an End to Chevron’s...
Activists Must Stand Strong Against Anti-Protest Bully Bills
Demonstrating the efficacy of direct action, right-wing legislators across the country are ramping up state legislative efforts to limit the right to protest. According to our colleagues at the International Center for Nonprofit Law (ICNL), as of May 10, 2021, there...
Houseless Activist Continues His Fight For Free Speech
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 29, 2021 Contact: Sarah Alvarez, Staff Attorney (541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org Houseless Activist Continues His Fight For Free Speech Eugene, OR – Yesterday, local houseless activist Eric Jackson filed an appeal to the Oregon Court...
Facebooking While Brown: Indigenous Man in Arizona Imprisoned for Social Media “Shock-Talk” about #BLM Protest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 14, 2021 Contacts: Lauren Regan, Executive Director & Senior Staff Attorney (541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org Chava Shapiro, Tucson Anti-Repression Crew (415) 857-0507 or Chava_tarc@protonmail.com Facebooking While Brown:...
As Law Enforcement Attempts to SLAPP Detroit Will Breathe, CLDC Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of DWB Activists
Update: March 10, 2021: Today the Eastern District of Michigan recognized that the City of Detroit’s counterclaim against activists Detroit Will Breathe was frivolous and baseless, and dismissed it with prejudice. Plaintiffs Detroit Will Breathe and 14 individual...
CLDC Files Civil Rights Suit On Behalf of Black Unity Members Brutalized by Springfield Police
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 8, 2021 Contact: Lauren Regan, Executive Director & Senior Staff Attorney (541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org CLDC Files Civil Rights Suit On Behalf of Black Unity Members Brutalized by Springfield Police Eugene, OR —Today, the Civil...
CLDC Client Prosecuted for First Amendment-Protected Chalking Outside of Representative’s Office
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2021 Contacts: ORD2 Indivisible Steering Committee contact@ORD2Indivisible.org Sarah Alvarez, CLDC Staff Attorney (541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org CLDC Client Prosecuted for First Amendment-Protected Chalking Outside of...
CLDC Amends Civil Rights Suit After New Details About Police Misconduct Uncovered
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 22, 2021 Contacts: Lauren Regan, Executive Director and Senior Staff Attorney info@cldc.org or (541) 687-9810 Marianne Dugan, Senior Staff Attorney mdugan@cldc.org or (541) 687-9810 CLDC Amends Civil Rights Suit After New Details...
Court Agrees: Logging Giant Can’t Bully Advocates Again
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 26, 2021 Contacts: Lauren Regan, Executive Director and Senior Staff Attorney Civil Liberties Defense Center info@cldc.org or (541) 687-9810 Valentina Stackl, Senior Communications Specialist Greenpeace USA and Protect the Protest...
The New Water Wars: Big Timber, Bottled Water, and Corporate Law Firms vs. the People of Weed
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 26, 2021 Contacts: Lauren Regan, Executive Director and Senior Staff Attorney Civil Liberties Defense Center info@cldc.org or (541) 687-9810 Bruce Shoemaker, Media Liaison Water for Citizens of Weed California bshoe@bitstream.net or (612)...
Digital Security Recommendations for 2021
TLDR: Just look for the --> arrows and do some of these things. If you only have capacity to do a few things, do one from each category, starting from the top. Why are you making me read this? As a movement, we've all been working hard together to adopt strong...
Victims of Eugene Police Violence Push City to Enact Meaningful Change
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2021 Contacts: Erin Grady, Plaintiff: (303) 905-8601 or pennyroyale07@gmail.com Tyler Hendry, Plaintiff: dhg.heroic@gmail.com Marianne Dugan, Senior Staff Attorney: (541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org Victims of Eugene Police Violence...
CLDC Response to White House “Memorandum on Inadmissibility of Persons Affiliated with Antifa Based on Organized Criminal Activity”
Yesterday, on January 5, 2021, the Trump regime issued a “memorandum” claiming immigrants “affiliated with antifa” should be deemed to be members of a terrorist organization and banned from immigrating into the United States. This memo was issued at the same time the...
Civil Liberties Organizations File Amicus Brief in Support of Washington State Minister
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 5, 2021 Contacts: Lauren Regan, CLDC Executive Director and Senior Attorney (541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org Ravisha Kumar, National Lawyers Guild Seattle Chapter President nationallawyersguildseattle@gmail.com Civil Liberties...
SCOTUS Vacates Two Fifth Circuit Decisions, Affirms First Amendment Protections, Civil Rights
Last week the Supreme Court vacated two horrible decisions from the Fifth Circuit. Last year, the Fifth Circuit held that a civil rights protester can be held liable for a peaceful protest in which an unidentified person throws a rock, but identified government agents...
Eugene Police Department Settles Excessive Force Lawsuit Brought by Journalist at Eugene Weekly
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 23, 2020 Contacts: Marianne Dugan, CLDC Senior Staff Attorney Cooper Brinson, CLDC Staff Attorney (541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org Henry Houston (541) 735-6216 or henry@eugeneweekly.com Eugene Police Department Settles Excessive...
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