To read "25 Years Later: WTO Shut Down in Seattle Pt. 1" click here! Without self-reflection, mass movements risk losing their relevancy. This week we’ll be wrapping up our 25th anniversary remembrance of the 1999 protests that took place at the Third WTO Ministerial...

To read "25 Years Later: WTO Shut Down in Seattle Pt. 2" click here! Twenty-five years ago this week, anarchists, members of organized labor, forest defenders, NGOs, artists, farmers, and environmental and social justice activists from all corners of the globe...

Summer 2024 has officially been declared the hottest on record. In August 2024, the global average was 1.51° C higher than pre-industrial levels, a spike in temperature that previously wasn’t expected to arrive until 2030 at the earliest. (Copernicus, Climate Change...

Student organizers and activists are a large facet of our movement-building work, as are many of our clients. This makes sense, of course—not only did most of CLDC’s staff and board earn their movement organizing chops while in college, but statistically, the years...

Civil Liberties Defense Center continues to monitor and track the assault on our protected First Amendment rights to assemble and protest in the United States. Unfortunately, we’re  witnessing a marked increase in the criminalization of dissent by authoritarians in...

Listen to Lauren Regan on the "A Wild and Beautiful World" podcast Click here to listen on Apple Podcasts "Because the one thing they will never have that we have is numbers, and moral high ground. Most of us are doing this because we care, it's coming from a place of...