Our Rights Are at Stake. We Will Not Be Silenced. In America, our government cannot do whatever it wants. And we, the people, have a right to ask for what we need, defend ourselves from abuse, and speak our minds.…
This week’s verdict against Greenpeace in the lawsuit brought by oil giant Energy Transfer Partners is a profound attack on First Amendment rights and the ability of communities to speak truth to the powerful. This lawsuit sought to punish Greenpeace…
Excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle. Read the full article here. A UC Santa Cruz student and pro-Palestinian activist whose cell phone was seized by campus police — while she was standing outside her dorm in her pajamas during a…
Five legal organizations including Palestine Legal, the Asian Law Caucus, the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, and the National Lawyers Guild of Los Angeles sent a letter to Pomona College today warning the…
The legal team for 26 activists who were arrested on the Golden Gate Bridge in April filed a motion in San Francisco’s superior court today, demanding that the court disqualify San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and her entire office,…
Today, The Center for Protest Law & Litigation, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, and civil rights attorney Thomas Seabaugh filed a lawsuit against the University of California Santa Cruz for banning more than 100 students and faculty members from campus…
Excerpt from The Washington Post George Washington University students arrested in the spring for protesting the US-backed genocide in Gaza are being subject to punitive and retaliatory prosecution and highly irregular restrictions on their educations. In addition to being prosecuted…