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 [...]
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 Push City [...]
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 [...]
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 Organizations File Amicus Brief [...]
CLDC Calls for Charges Leveled at Sexual Assault Survivor to be Dropped by Eugene Police
Today CLDC resolved one of our activist cases with a sentence of discharge (no punishment) for a woman who was acting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
CLDC Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of Florida Community Advocate SLAPPed by Mining Company
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 12, 2020 Contacts: Lauren Regan, CLDC Executive Director & Protect the Protest Legal Coordinator Rebecca Chapman, CLDC [...]
Standing Rock Civil Rights Lawsuits Moving Forward After North Dakota Federal Court Rejects Defendants’ Dismissal Request
In June, CLDC gave you an update on the various civil rights cases that we and others have filed against the [...]
Trump’s Push to Privatize the USPS is a Direct Threat to Democracy
My maternal grandfather was born in 1914 and served in the Army during World War II. When he returned from the [...]