Blog & Press Releases
How to Browse the Web Anonymously
DreamHost, a web-host, has revealed that they are fighting the US government warrant requesting all information about every person who has visited the website www.disruptj20.org. Such information could include all subpages of disruptj20 that you surfed, how often you...
What happens to deleted emails?
In response to a question to the Digital Security for Activists program: How secure is it to delete email and other internet documents? Who owns the deletions-- the email provider, the ISP, the owner of the server/hardware? The person/entity who wrote it? The...
How to defend against SLAPP and RICO: Coming Soon to a CLDC website near you!
By Maslyn Locke, CLDC Law Clerk CLDC’s motto is “assert your rights, we’ve got your back.” In order to ensure that activists and targeted community members know the law and how it might impact them and their political work, we continue to develop legal research,...
CLDC victory for wildlife activists
Appeals court backs wildlife activist in free speech case By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press A federal appeals court on Monday ruled in favor of a wildlife activist who said his free speech rights were violated when a sheriff's deputy barred him from watching livestock...
What I learned at the first Next Generation Climate Justice Action Camp
By Kiran Oommen, CLDC Intern I attended the Next Generation Climate Justice Action Camp (NGCJAC) the first year it was put on. We were only out there a few days, not even a full week, but NGCJAC was easily one of the most important experiences of my teenage years. If...
Eugene Advocacy Groups Ask to be Part of the Process of Hiring a New Police Chief
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 21, 2017 CONTACTS: Erin Grady (CLDC) (541) 687-9180 Ibrahim Coulibaly (NAACP) (541) 606-3007 Eugene Advocacy Groups Ask to be Part of the Process of Hiring a New Police Chief EUGENE, OR - A coalition of social justice and human rights...
Know Your Rights for Activists Video Training
The first is our most well-known know your rights training, offering basic legal information for activists so they might be informed when interacting with law enforcement officials during protests.
Immediate Release: Climate Denier’s SLAPP RICO case thrown out of Texas federal court
Today Senior United States District Judge Sam R. Cummings, with the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, roundly dismissed the frivolous Rackateering lawsuit brought by Texas climate denier Leonid Goldstein against leading environmental organizations,...
Federal Courts Halt Trump’s Muslim Ban
On February 9, 2017, the federal U.S. Court of Appeals upheld an injunction against implementation of Donald Trump’s Executive Order banning Muslims from the U.S. The order from the federal appeals court agreed with a federal district court decision in Seattle...
Update from Standing Rock
I wanted to share a short update from Standing Rock regarding a multitude of travesties that have occurred there this week. Unfortunately, things are only going to be getting more intense out there—both at Standing Rock and around the country. CLDC is about to hire a...
Pipeline Protester Trial Ends With Hung Jury In Victory For Climate Movement
Mount Vernon, WA — In a victory for the climate movement, a jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Ken Ward, a climate activist from Corbett, Oregon, who had been charged with sabotage and burglary after an October 2016 protest in which he and four...
Security Recommendations
While there is no way to be completely immune from surveillance, following our advice below will keep you and your comrades much safer. We will be updating this page with more guidance on how to most effectively organize in an age of widespread electronic surveillance. Stay tuned!
Dispatch from Standing Rock
January 14, 2017 Greetings from the frigid plains of Oceti Sakowin. I’m at camp today and while the temperature is 23 below zero, the sun is shining and the wind is biting. The first lungful of air I took in made me cough for a minute as I looked around at the...
Developing Good Digital Security Culture
Liberation-focused activists who intend to succeed in their work should expect active disruption from well-resourced State and corporate adversaries. Powerful digital organizing tools (instantaneous, global communications, social networking, GPS and digital cameras) can be readily turned against activists and systematically used to surveil and disrupt activist communities. Through our new Digital Security for Activists program, CLDC aims to provide advice and trainings to empower you to up your digital security game.
Make a Year End Gift to Fight for Civil Liberties
With the incoming Trump administration, the need for people to fight for civil liberties will be greater than ever before. We will defend social and environmental justice activists as well as targeted communities such as immigrants, workers and communities of color....
Petition to Allow Out-of-State Attorneys to Represent Water Protectors
Today, the CLDC submitted a public comment in support of a petition to the North Dakota Supreme Court that urges the Court to temporarily allow out-of-state attorneys to defend water protectors arrested at Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock, North Dakota. You should...
Water Protectors file class action suit for retaliation and excessive force against brutal police
The civil rights complaint seeks justice against the constitutional violations perpetuated against the mostly Native American water protectors, including claims of retaliation and police brutality by law enforcement, as well suing the Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier, and City of Mandan Chief of Police Jason Ziegler for maintaining policies, customs, and practices that led to grave violations of Plaintiffs’ rights secured by the U.S. Constitution.
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