If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are people who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass African-American abolitionist

Welcome to the Activist's Legal Project

The Activists' Legal Project is a not for profit collective which provides information about the law to a wide range of grassroots social change activists as well as people who are considering taking action for the first time. We provide information sheets on legal issues relevant to direct activists and offer free legal workshops facilitated by activists, with first hand experience of the criminal and civil 'justice' systems.

Direct Action and the law

The power that corporations and governments have over our society is maintained through oppression and through the continuing co-operation of groups and individuals. The withdrawal of that co-operation restricts or dissolves their control. Put another way, their power depends on our continuing obedience; when we refuse to obey, their power begins to crumble. ...more

The Activists' Legal Project Offers:

• free workshops on legal issues for grassroots activists and campaigners
• a series of information sheets on legal issues of interest to activists
• contact details of experienced activists who are willing to act as 'lay advisors' at court hearings and a list of sympathetic solicitors