Contributors
This website is a greatly expanded and updated version of Our Rights: Activist Rights Handbook, which was edited by Lou Schetzer and published by the Fitzroy Legal Service in March 1996 as a green pocket-size handbook.
That Victorian handbook was based upon the original NSW version first published by the NSW Activists Defence Network in 1993.
The current site is a collective effort, with many valuable contributions coming from many people. Many contributors are credited in their particular section.
We invite further contributions and suggestions for future editions. This website is a resource which will develop with experience and contributions.
Feedback and improving this site.
List of Contributors
- Anthony Kelly, Pt'chang Nonviolent Community Safety Group
- Charandev Singh (Human Rights Worker), Brimbank Community Legal Centre
- David Spratt, Victorian Peace Network
- Dimity Hawkins, Friends Of the Earth Australia, Nuclear Weapons National Spokesperson
- Elizabeth Wheeler, Pt'chang Nonviolent Community Safety Group
- Jacob Grech, Victorian Peace Network
- Jo Evans (Solicitor)
- Joo Cheong Tham, Associate Lecturer, School of Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe University, Civil Rights Network
- Dr Jude McCulloch, Senior Lecturer, Criminal Justice and Criminology, Monash University
- Mary Heath, Lecturer, School of Law, Flinders University of SA
- Patrick Emerton, Civil Rights Network
- Peta Murphy (Solicitor), Robert Stary and Associates
- Peter Noble (Solicitor and LPO), Fitzroy Legal Service
- Reta Kaur, Women For Peace
- Sam Biondo (Community Development Officer), Fitzroy Legal Service
- Sam Sowerwine, Melbourne Kungas, 3CR
- Simon Northeast (Solicitor)
- Tony Hastings, Friends Of the Earth Melbourne
- Tanja Kovac (Solicitor), Slater & Gordon
- William Mortimer (Law student), office of Simon Northeast
The site also contains material adapted from works:
The sections Introduction to the Law and DIY legal research were adapted from the Law Handbook 2004 . Published by the Fitzroy Legal Service . Contributors: Mary Anne Noone, Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe University and Aboriginal Law, Angus Frith, Barrister .
Organising support for arrestees, Organising in Jail and Coming out of jail stronger , have been reprinted with permission from Starhawk www.starhawk.org and adapted for the Australian context.
Organising Legal Support A guide for organisers has drawn from and adapted material from David Mossop and his article: Legal Organisation and Nonviolent Action published in Nonviolence Today No. 16, August September 1990.
Should I be arrested? Section is adapted from an article by Robert Burrowes that first appeared in Nonviolence Today No.39, July/August 1994.
Much of the material in the Legal Support Team Resources section was adapted from or inspired by material produced by the Midnight Special Law Collective www.midnightspecial.net
Political Surveillance a guide for activists was adapted from a guide by Linda Lotz of the American Friends Service Committee. The original article can be found at http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/
The Voluntary and empowered Risk section, by Dimity Hawkins, contains adaptations from the World Wide Wonder Women handbook: "A Grrrls Own Guide to Protesting Globalisation September 2000" .
Arrestee/ Injured Person Instruction Sheet and the Arrestee Tracking Sheet by Dimity Hawkins are based upon sheets produced by the S11 Legal Support Team, Save Albert Park and the Jabiluka campaign.
Area denial tactics at Kirribilli case study was adapted from an article by Sarah Stephen
From Green Left Weekly, April 21, 2004.
John Batman's Statue tried for War Crimes case study was written by Brendan Condon from the Pay the Rent Campaign.
The Student activism and Cyber activism section were produced and edited by volunteers from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) UTS Community Law and Legal Research Centre ( www.utscommunitylaw.org ). Thanks to Veronica Bonafacio and Martin Wright for their work and to the Co-ordinator, Vicki Sentas, for her support and assistance.
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