CLAC's Legal Self-Defense Committee can provide support if you experience repression during demonstrations or political actions. We prefer to promote self-defense in the face of small charges and tickets. Since legal proceedings can be frightening, discouraging and demobilizing, we offer a Legal Self-Defense Workshop to help you understand the basics of the "justice system" and learn how to defend yourself against it. CLAC also has a Legal Self-Defense Fund to provide financial assistance to those arrested.
For questions about legal support, contact us at info @ clac-montreal.net
For legal information in the event of arrest, visit CLAC's Frequently Asked Legal Questions.
Please note that the last update was made in 2015, so some information may no longer be up to date. Let us know if this is the case!
Before taking part in any protest, demo or political action, check out our section on how to prepare to take the streets.
Other resources
Check out the Guess What! We've Got Rights!? by the Collectif Opposé à la Brutalité Policière (COBP).
Last updated in 2017, some information may have changed since then.
Solidarity Across Borders has built up a good resources bank for migrants, people without status and incarcerated people. Its anti-incarceration committee also does a lot of work with incarcerated people and actively campaigns for the abolition of detentions of migrant people.
The Prisoner Correspondence Project is a pen-pal and solidarity initiative for 2SLGBTQIA+ prisoners in Canada and the U.S., connecting them with people from these same communities outside prison.
The Anti-Carceral Group is a discussion, information and action group working on prison abolition and the justice system. See also the Canada-wide website noprisons.ca.
Other interesting resources: What To Do Instead of Calling the Police.