Know Your Rights: Protect Yourself and Your Community from Police, ICE, the FBI, and the Justice System Zine, published by Microcosm Preparing to fight? Know your rights!
Whether you're an activist protesting on the streets, a worker preparing for ICE to come to your job, or simply a regular person concerned about the rise of fascism, knowing your rights is the first step to staying safe and free. The legal system and law enforcement can be used against you, but you can use the Constitution to protect yourself and your community. Lawyers put this guide together to help you understand what to say when cops confront you (spoiler: nothing), what is and isn't covered by the first amendment, and more. Includes example dialogues and scripts, quizzes to test your understanding of real-world applications of legal principles, and a glossary of terms. An accessible must-read for anyone concerned about democracy.
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Portland's most colorful, authentic, and empowering publishing house and distributor, Microcosm Publishing equips readers to make positive changes in their lives and in the world around them. Microcosm emphasizes skill-building, showing hidden histories, and fostering creativity through challenging conventional publishing wisdom with books and zines about DIY skills, food, bicycling, gender, self-care, and social justice. Microcosm has lived in milk crates, in closets, in a mud room, in a windowless basement, in a church, and under a desk at a major credit card company. We've brought our brightly colored books to info-shops, zine fests, media summits, bicycle conferences, parks, street corners, house shows, dirty bars, all night coffee shops, art museums, and every corner of the mainstream where we can clear away a little space to set up shop. We set out to save ourselves from not caring, but out there in the margins we've found communities worth always doing it better for. Now we have contracts instead of handshakes, a warehouse instead of a fanny pack full of zines. We have a staff, and we have relationships in the industry that send our books to places we wouldn't have dreamed we could walk into ourselves. We're not as drunk or dirty as we used to be. But still, at heart, we've got this milk crate strapped to the back of a bike and we're riding wildly across town to hand you the book that might just be the one that saves your life!
