Everything about Law Collective totally explained
A
law collective is a non-
hierarchical organization which provides
legal services to a community or communities in need. Such work ranges from traditional
criminal defense, to
advocacy on behalf of
immigrants, to legal support at large and small
protests, to "Know Your Rights" and other law-related workshops.
There were many law collectives in the 1970s. These collectives ran as worker-run,
cooperative law firms. They often had
revolutionary politics, and supported explicitly revolutionary groups and individuals. Lawyer and non-lawyer employees were paid the same wages, and had equal decision-making power. At some law collectives, workers supporting families were paid more. A handful of law collectives organized along those lines still exist - for example, the
People's Law Office in
Chicago, Illinois.
Since the
1999 Seattle WTO protests, there has been a small movement of activist law collectives. These groups are usually non-lawyer centered, run along
anarchist principles (even if they don't explicitly identify as anarchist), and work as part of the movement for social justice. These law collectives are made up mostly or entirely of non-lawyers. They are located in cities including
Philadelphia, PA;
Washington, DC;
New York;
Madison;
Portland;
Oakland; and
Montreal,
Ottawa, and
Toronto, Canada.
This new generation of law collective works to empower people to provide their own legal support. They give "trainer trainings" so people can give "Know Your Rights" and other workshops to their communities; teach people to provide legal support for their affinity groups or for specific protests; and demystify the law in general and law collective work in particular.
Law collectives have been central in the successful defense of thousands of activists from criminal prosecution in such protests including the Seattle WTO protests in November 1999; the "
A16"
World Bank and
IMF protests in 2000; the Republican and Democratic convention protests, also in 2000; the
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) protests in 2001 and 2004; ongoing protests by the
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty; and in the mass protests around the US against the
war in Iraq in 2003.
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