We are sharing some resources we found helpful in navigating repression and arrest, hoping that by demystifying their legal systems, we may dispel our fears and inhibitions, becoming fully prepared to take smarter and bolder action.
- “Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant” (Tilted Scales Collective)
- “Know Your Rights” (National Lawyers Guild Chicago)
- “Health and Safety at Militant Actions” (PDF)
- “Peace Police are Police: How Protest Marshals Sabotage Liberation and Protect the State” (some abolitionists in L.A.)
Movement Studies
- “Mapping the State’s Strategy of Repression Against the George Floyd Rebellion” (Its Going Down)
- “We’ve Got Your Back: The Story of the J20 Defense – An Epic Tale of Repression and Solidarity”
- “Green Scared? Lessons from the FBI Crackdown on Eco-Activists” (Crimethinc)
- “The Story Behind the “NATO 3” Domestic Terrorism Arrests” (Truthout)
Anarchist Black Cross, political prisoners
- “A Draft Proposal for an Anarchist Black Cross Network” (Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin)
- “Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War” (NYC Anarchist Black Cross)
- UprisingSupport.org: A Compilation of Information And Support Campaigns from the George Floyd Uprisings
- “June 11: The History of a Day of Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity”
Further
- “Resources for Resisting Federal Repression” (National Lawyers Guild)
- “No Trace Project: Threat Library”
- “Resources for Activists” (Civil Liberties Defense Center)
- “No Justice No Pleas: Subverting Mass Incarceration Through Defendant Collective Action” by Andrew Manuel Crespo
- “Against Innocence: Race, Gender, and the politics of Safety” (Jackie Wang)
- “The other side of the COIN: counterinsurgency and community policing” (Kristian Williams)