Know Your Rights
Know Your Rights as an Immigrant
Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook [PDF]
If you want to request a Know Your Rights training, contact us here.
Local organizations fighting for your rights in encounters with law enforcement:
Oregon Justice Resource Center
Albina Ministerial Alliance for Justice and Police Reform
Resources for Lawyers
Below is a (non-exhaustive) list of resources to help legal folks plug in and self-educate. If you have money, donate to local, grassroots organizations working for social, racial, and economic justice. If you have skills, donate those to local, grassroots organizations working for social, racial, and economic justice. If you feel like you have neither, build your skills (we all have something to contribute!), or support those who do.
Videos
Law 4 Black Lives “Movement Lawyering and States of Emergency” 4/16/20
NLG “Implementing Abolition: How to Create Just & Lasting Abolition” 4/9/19
City Club Friday Forum “Feminism at the Intersection” 2/3/17
Law at the Margins “So, you want to be a movement lawyer, now what?”
Written Materials on Racial and Social Justice and Movement Lawyering
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
The Movement for Black Lives‘ Vision for Black Lives Policy Platforms
Law For Black Lives What We Can Do: Movement Lawyering in Moments of Crisis
Communities of Color Coalition Research & Publications
OPAL- Environmental Justice Environmental Justice in Portland
Letter to a law student interested in social justice by Bill Quigley
RED Report on racial disparities in Multnomah County criminal legal system [PDF]
20 Tools for Movement Lawyering by Bill Quigley
Get Involved with Local Organizations
Northwest Workers Justice Project
Voz Workers’ Rights Education Project