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Tilted Scales Collective
A Tilted Guide To Being A Defendant : is a comprehensive guide to facing charges in the criminal legal system to help defendants not only figure out how to handle their legal cases, but also how to think about their cases based on their goals: personal, political, and legal. This book was written by dedicated legal support activists and draws on the wisdom of dozens of people who have weathered the challenges of trials and incarceration.
Representing Radicals helps lawyers understand ways to work with radical defendants, with an explicit focus on how to help them achieve ends that go beyond traditional legal goals. Understanding radical defendants’ goals and political priorities is a crucial part of providing them with the most robust criminal defense while helping them strengthen and defend their social movements. This book is based on the belief that lawyers and radical defendants can work together in ways that strengthen movements when fighting criminal charges.
Civil Liberties Defense Center
–Movement Repression Resilience
Center for Constitutional Rights
If an Agent Knocks…
- Right Outside Your Door: If An Agent Knocks– A look specifically at FBI door knocks and how they fit into a wider pattern of counter-insurgency in 2020.
- You Have the Right to Remain Silent– A know your rights guide for law enforcement encounters.
- When the Police Knock on Your Door– Your Rights and Options: A Legal Guide and Poster. Consider putting a copy of this poster by the doors of your residence and familiarizing yourself with the information. These days, no matter who you are or what you’re doing, you never know when you might receive an unwelcome visit.
Grand Juries
- Surviving a Grand Jury-This zine presents the voices of three people who stood up to grand jury indictments: one who served jail time for resisting, one who went on the run rather than testify, and one who supported a grand jury resister from the beginning to the end of the process.
- An (Incomplete) List of Grand Jury Resistance–
King County Specific Resources
- Using the King County Jail Subject Lookup Tool
- King County Department of Public Defense Screening– Learn how to obtain an attorney by checking your eligibility with a Department of Public Defense (DPD) screening interview.