The June 12 webinar addressed the rights of protestors, the civil rights framework, criminal implications, and civil remedies. Speakers included: Raneem Hamad, organizer for Iowa Freedom Riders, Aaron Marr Page, adjunct faculty UI College of Law, and Tom Frerichs: Waterloo, Iowa attorney; moderated by Amy Weismann, Assistant Director, UI Center for Human Rights. 

Please look below the video for resources recommended by the speakers.

Resources

Presentation slides: UICHR-Protest-Rights-Panel-KYR-Slides.pptx

Protestor Rights

• ACLU, Website: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/
• PDF: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_pdf_file/kyr_protests.pdf
• ACLU-Iowa, https://www.aclu-ia.org/en/protest
• Protest Law Tracker, https://www.icnl.org/usprotestlawtracker/

Section 1983

• Quick overview: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-legal-overview-of-section-1983-civil-rights-litigation_b_58f0e17ee4b048372700d793
• Case law overview: http://www.hcbattorneys.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Fundamentals-of-Section-1983-Litigation-11.22.16.pdf

Human Rights Framework

• United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights: Statement on the Protests against Systemic Racism in the United States
• Inter-American Commission Hearing on Police Killings and Accountability (with links to amicus), https://www.aclu.org/cases/human-rights-hearing-police-killings-us
• Laura Goolsby, Why International Law Should Matter to Black Lives Matter: A Draft Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Behalf of the Family of Eric Garner, https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jlasc/vol21/iss1/3/

Advocacy Organizations

• ACLU-Iowa, https://www.aclu-ia.org/
• Partnership for Civil Justice, http://www.justiceonline.org/
• Civil Liberties Defense Center, https://cldc.org/
• Institute for Free Speech, https://www.ifs.org/
• Electronic Frontier Foundation, https://www.eff.org/
• Article 19, https://www.article19.org/ (UDHR)

Lawyers

• Iowa Legal Aid, http://www.iowalegalaid.org/
• ISBA Find-A-Lawyer Service, www.iowafindalawyer.com
• Rockne Cole (Iowa City), Cole Law Firm, rockne@colelawfirmiowa.com
• Tom Frerichs (Waterloo), Frerichs Law Office, tfrerichs@frerichslaw.com
• Phil Mears (Iowa City), Mears Law Office, mearslaw@mearslawoffice.com
• Aaron Page (Iowa City), Clark Grove PLLC, aaron@ampjustice.com

Other resources

Iowa Freedom Riders: https://www.instagram.com/iowafreedomriders/