Know Your Rights: The Right to Protest
Justice Initiatives at BPL is partnering with community organizations and agencies to produce a series of Know Your Rights workshops. This event in the series will focus on how protesters and activists can protect their rights. The workshop will also cover current and historical information about grand juries, federal repression and other legal rights related to today's protest movements. This event will be livestreamed here and on the BPL YouTube channel. There will be a Q&A session at the end of the workshop, and you will be able to post your questions in the livestream chat.
Presenter:
Moira Meltzer-Cohen - is an abolitionist, lawyer, and educator supporting people’s liberation movements, with a focus on advocacy for elderly and gender nonconforming persons in prison. In her private practice, Moira has represented activists, advocates, and journalists from movements as diverse as Occupy Wall Street, the environmental movement, Black liberation movements, and Black Lives Matter. She also acted as Staff Attorney for the Water Protector Legal Collective, coordinating the defense of protestors arrested at the Standing Rock site resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline. This past spring she secured the release of Chelsea Manning, who was jailed for civil contempt arising from a federal grand jury subpoena. Ms. Meltzer-Cohen graduated from the University of Michigan Residential College in 2000, with a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities; from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 2004, with an MS in Curriculum and Instruction, and from the CUNY School of Law in 2012, with a JD. She is admitted to practice in the Courts of the State of New York, the federal District Courts of New York, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Justice Initiatives at BPL is partnering with community organizations and agencies to produce a series of Know Your Rights workshops. This event in the series will focus on how protesters and activists can protect their rights. The workshop will also cover current and historical information about grand juries, federal repression and other legal rights related to today's protest movements. This event will be livestreamed here and on the BPL YouTube channel. There will be a Q&A session at the end of the workshop, and you will be able to post your questions in the livestream chat.
Presenter:
Moira Meltzer-Cohen - is an abolitionist, lawyer, and educator supporting people’s liberation movements, with a focus on advocacy for elderly and gender nonconforming persons in prison. In her private practice, Moira has represented activists, advocates, and journalists from movements as diverse as Occupy Wall Street, the environmental movement, Black liberation movements, and Black Lives Matter. She also acted as Staff Attorney for the Water Protector Legal Collective, coordinating the defense of protestors arrested at the Standing Rock site resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline. This past spring she secured the release of Chelsea Manning, who was jailed for civil contempt arising from a federal grand jury subpoena. Ms. Meltzer-Cohen graduated from the University of Michigan Residential College in 2000, with a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities; from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 2004, with an MS in Curriculum and Instruction, and from the CUNY School of Law in 2012, with a JD. She is admitted to practice in the Courts of the State of New York, the federal District Courts of New York, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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