Legal Support for Direct Action

Materials for Activists:

Know Your Rights (KYR) in DC Half Pager - Flyer for reading, editing, using!  Add the legal hotline number for your action to it.

Police Misconduct form - to be filled out and given to legal representation.

Affinity Group FAQ and Support form - Tips for legal support for affinity groups and FORM for everyone who is risking arrest to fill out.  This form is for important information that your friends/legal support should know before you go out in the streets.

Materials for Legal Support:

Legal Office Manual - info for how to run a legal office; includes role plays for phone calls from arrestees, witnesses, etc.

Legal Support Training - train a group on how to do support for direct action.

Legal Support/Affinity Group Role Play - a great tool to use in a training on the importance of setting up a legal support system for direct actions. 

More DC legal info - info to read and/or use in a training. 

Affinity Group form for legal team - a form the whole affinity group fills out to give to legal team

Police Numbers - Phone numbers and addresses for MPD Stations (subject to change!  check before using.)

Arrestee Intake Form - used in legal office for all arrestees.

Links:

 DC Justice & Solidarity Collective - DC Collective with lots of great resources.  It is not as active as it once was, but still has lots of relevant information. 

DC Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild -  Find trainings, resources, and how to be a great activist lawyer!

Midnight Special Law Collective - California collective with lots of great resources for doing legal support.