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 Trump administration fights backlash for trying to coerce […]
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
Spokane, WA […]
Today CLDC resolved one of our activist cases with a sentence of discharge (no punishment) for a woman who was acting as an ally and accompanied a non-binary person who was sexually assaulted by an on-duty cop, Christopher Drumm, with the Eugene Police Department.
The victim had called 911 for police […]
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 cannot be held liable for making […]
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, OR—Yesterday the City of Eugene agreed to settle a federal civil rights […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 12, 2020
Contacts:
Lauren Regan, CLDC Executive Director & Protect the Protest Legal Coordinator
Rebecca Chapman, CLDC Staff Attorney
(541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org
Eugene, OR—On Saturday, October 10th, CLDC and the Protect the Protest task […]
My maternal grandfather was born in 1914 and served in the Army during World War II. When he returned from the war in 1944, he took a job with the U.S. Postal Service as a “mailman.” He worked as a letter carrier, eventually becoming a supervisor, and was an active […]
July 25th is the International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners. Around the world, antifascist activists are languishing in prisons. It’s a minor inconvenience to take a very few minutes out of your day to write to a prisoner. But when they receive such a note, it is a […]
By: Sumit Kapur, CLDC Intern
The way we think about the world is conditioned by the knowledge that we are given from those that we place trust in.
This knowledge is not unfiltered—it is curated. In this country, the knowledge that we learn in schools is curated by state educational boards to […]
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld yet another draconian interpretation of federal immigration law. In the case, Nielsen v. Preap, the question before the court was whether 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c) requires the Department of Homeland Security to take certain immigrants into custody immediately after the release […]
