Climate Justice Legals Network – LAUNCH
Exciting times! We have been doing this work informally for many years – providing activists with information and legal resources for being involved in safe, peaceful protest. From brand new …
Lawyers network launched
Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS) launched our lawyers network with Amnesty International on the 30th May 2017. CounterAct supports and works with MALS and has found our work increasingly overlapping in …
Damning police report launched – Beeliar protesters call for investigation
Beeliar Legal team launch damning report – call for investigation A report is being launched today by the legal support team for the Beeliar protests that documents over twenty incidents …
Battle for Beeliar
Today the people in Western Australia will make a judgement whether they want Barnett and his Liberal government to continue. All signs point to no, but people are waiting hearts …
Something rotten in NSW
There is something rotten in the state of NSW. The strength and speed of the changes to basic civil liberties has picked up pace again with yet more changes afoot …
Burn the books! Stop the learning!
Oh noes! The people are thinking for themselves. We have to stop it. Oh hang on, we live in a democracy? Don’t we? Shhhhh. Maybe no one will notice. Today …
it is alive
Whew! After nearly 18 months since we first discussed it, we are so thrilled to say that our Legals Handbook is alive! And has been released into the wild. Much …
Vindication: Move on laws repealed
As the rapidly mobilised campaign in Western Australia to #protectpeacefulprotest shifts into high gear, we heard the results of a years worth of sustained lobbying, massive marches and nonviolent direct …
When war comes home
It took a little while to sink in. The first indications we had that there was anything wrong, was that an ambulance headed for the gates of the peaceful blockade …
Got insecurity
So many of us knew, or at least suspected, that we are under the level of scrutiny that has now been confirmed. And one of the disturbing things is – …