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This booklet aims to give people thinking about going to or organizing a protest information about best practices for interacting with law enforcement in-the-moment. Further, it can also help as advance information to consider in order to assess risk and prepare for possible police encounters. When you are protesting or having any interaction with law enforcement, asserting your rights does not usually mean that the police will respect your rights or change how they are treating you. However, by using your rights (by saying them out loud, as this booklet will teach you to do), you can make it harder for police to use your own statements or anything found on you during a search as evidence against you during a trial. Using this information could help your case later in court and, importantly, can help you protect your fellow activists.

These trainings help organizations to get the most out of their online channels, by building a community and moving people to action. Nonprofit consulting group Aspiration has posted online trainings for groups working for social justice, to help groups with social media, communications, email newsletters, and online advocacy. Trainings include slides and recorded webinar videos. Some notable trainings include “Creating a Social Media Policy,” Tracking Online Analytics,” “Enewsletters for fundraising,” and “Building Online Advocates.”