Resources and Advice

Bristol Defendant Solidarity

• Stopped and Searched?
• Advice on Arrest
• Police Raids
• Schedule 7
• Police Harassment
• Bust cards (for demonstrations)
• Dealing with the Police leaflet
• Talking to the Police poster
• Supporting someone through the legal system
• Solicitors

Bristol Anarchist Black Cross

• Resources – https://bristolabc.wordpress.com/resources/
• Publications – https://bristolabc.wordpress.com/resources/pamphlets/
• Leaflets – https://bristolabc.wordpress.com/leaflets/

External

Legal Information

• The Netpol Solicitors List – https://netpol.org/solicitors/
• GBC Legal guides – https://greenandblackcross.org/guides/
• LDMG (legal defense and monitoring group) have produced a set of briefings on legal issues – http://www.ldmg.org.uk/
• What to do if police publish your photo (Fitwatch) – https://libcom.org/library/beating-police-repression-after-student-occupation
• Know Your Rights: Schedule 7 (Islamic Human Rights Commission) – http://www.ihrc.org.uk/activities/alerts/10669-know-your-rights-schedule-7
• No Comment: The Defendants Guide to Arrest (LDMG) – http://ldmg.org.uk/files/No_Comment_5th_Edition.pdf
• The Protest Handbook (Garden Court Chambers) – http://www.theprotesthandbook.com/book/
• The Squatter’s Handbook (Advisory Service for Squatters) – http://www.squatter.org.uk/squatters-handbook/
• Getting the Best Defence You Can From a Solicitor (Schnews) – http://www.schnews.org.uk/diyguide/gettingthebestdefenceyoucanfromasolicitor.htm
• Your rights if raided (NetPol) – http://netpol.org/2014/06/12/police-raids
• Approached by the Police: a factsheet on being asked to be an informer – http://www.freebeagles.org/articles/grass.html

Emotional Support

• Counselling for Social Change – www.counsellingforsocialchange.org.uk
• Activist Trauma Support – www.activist-trauma.net
• Emotional First-Aid card for activists (No Borders Stockholm) – web.archive.org/web/20130509213131/http://www.noborderstockholm.org/uploads/EMO-card-pdf.pdf

Security

• Activist Security Handbook – http://www.activistsecurity.org/
• Security and Counter-Surveillance – http://325.nostate.net/library/security-countersurveillance.pdf
• Tech tools for activists – techtoolsforactivism.org
• EFF guide to surveillance self-defence – ssd.eff.org
• Riseup security guide – help.riseup.net/en/security
• ‘Arming Sisters’ (set of computer security and privacy guides) – lilithlela.cyberguerrilla.org/?page_id=2757
• Digital Forensics Wiki – www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page