Coldsnap Know Your Rights Training (3 of 3 in Feb.)

Come to Coldsnap Legal Collective's FREE community workshops on knowing your rights and creating the structures you need to protect yourselves and your communities as you exercise your rights.

For more information, check out http://www.coldsnaplegal.org. To register for a series of workshops (one series in February, one in March, one in April), visit the Experimental College (EXCO) website at http://www.excotc.org.

Class Dates, Times & Places:
Saturday, February 14, 1-4PM Macalester College, Carnegie Hall Room 06A
Saturday, February 21, 1-4PM Macalester College, Carnegie Hall Room 06A
Saturday, February 28, 1-4PM Macalester College, Carnegie Hall Room 06A

Class size: Minimum _____5ish____ Maximum _____25ish____

*** This is the third workshop of the series for February. ***

This is a series of three workshops that build off each other to give you the knowledge you need to protect your rights, help others learn how to do the same, and create the legal support structures for your activist group that you need to do your work as safely as possible.
The first workshop is a Know Your Rights training, in which you'll learn about your constitutional rights from experienced trainers. This workshop is highly interactive since it uses role play scenarios that require audience members to join us in the front of the room with our awesome props and prompt cards. After the training, you'll have a chance to talk through how it went so you can start mastering the knowledge and prepare yourself to teach it to others.

In the second workshop, the trainers' training, you'll learn how to conduct the Know Your Rights workshops on your own or with Coldsnap at future events.

In the final workshop, you'll learn all about building off the basic Know Your Rights information to create legal support structures within your activist organizations. Some of these structures include designating a legal support coordinator, planning for jail and court solidarity strategies in advance of actions, using good Security Culture practices to protect the members of your group, and using copwatching and legal observing techniques to help prevent police abuse and brutality and to provide evidence for criminal and civil suits that arise from any violations of your rights.

Because the topics we cover in these workshops can create intense, emotional situations, we use consensus-based facilitation in an attempt to create a safer space where we challenge oppression and hierarchy and that is conducive to learning and growing as a community. We operate through informed consent, so we will always explain what is entailed in the various activities in the workshops so you can decide your comfort level in participating. In turn, we ask that all participants agree to interact with each other in ways that empower everyone present to engage in the activities without fear of condemnation and to respect others' experiences and choices of activist tactics and strategies, even when someone doesn't understand or agree with someone else.