GUIDANCE

Know Your Rights - While Protesting (2024)

This guidance is intended to provide safety and other tips for while you are out at a protest.

Know Your Rights - While Protesting As Non-Citizens (2024)

This guidance is intended to appraise you of your rights & the potential risks in the current context of governmental repression of Palestine-solidarity related speech.

Know Your Rights - Law Enforcement Encounters (2024)

This information sheet shares strategies to help you protect yourself, your community, and your movement if law enforcement approaches you for questioning.

Know Your Rights - Charitable Giving (2024)

The U.S. government has heavily monitored and scrutinized charitable giving for decades now, particularly since 9/11. This resource provides guidance on continuing to give — safely and with intention.

Infiltration & Disinformation (June 2020)

Protests and organizing spaces are sacred ground. They should be secure from infiltration and misinformation. Info on how to protect your movement, created in collaboration with Movement for Black Lives (M4BL).

Encounters with the FBI (June 2020)

Agents, officers, and detectives working for the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) and as part of Operation Legend have been ordered to focus on the nationwide movement to defend Black life. Guidance how to protect your movement, created in collaboration with Movement for Black Lives (M4BL).

Countering Violent Extremism

In September 2014, the Department of Justice announced the launch of new pilot programs for Countering Violent Extremism (“CVE”). Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. described the pilot programs as an effort to “bring together community representatives, public safety officials, religious leaders, and United States Attorneys to improve local engagement; to counter violent extremism; and – ultimately – to build a broad network of community partnerships to keep our nation safe.” The program aims to involve religious leaders, school officials, healthcare providers, and community groups in efforts to detect and deter “violent extremism.”  In response to requests by community organizations, CLEAR created a CVE Guidance for religious centers and community organizations.