Know Your Rights (+) Workshop ?

[steve wilt]

Hi. I’m looking for your opinions on whether you think the following proposal for a Know-Your-Rights-During-Cop-Encounters FreeSchool workshop would be useful or not and when and where. I know NLG did a Know-Your-Rights training on Monday. On the other hand some may have missed it; some may want reinforcement; some may benefit from a different approach; some may want a more thorough understanding of some parts; some may have knowledge to add; some may want to develop answers to thornier questions, and some may think we should do this on an ongoing basis or not (maybe it's handled), or maybe it could be a way of doing outreach, or …?

Here’s a modifiable outline of what I propose:
1    Basics
  1.1    Self-assessment quiz, from _Beat the Heat_ by Katya Komisaruk (a serious legal bad-ass)
  1.2    Responses to cops
    1.2.1    Stay calm
    1.2.2    “Am I being detained?”
    1.2.3    “I don’t consent to searches!”
    1.2.4    “I don’t [ever!] want to talk (and I’d like to speak to a lawyer)”
  1.3    Situations shown and analyzed using video: _Busted: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters_ or _10 Rules for Dealing with Police_ both by Flex Your Rights foundation. Video interspersed with discussion.
    1.3.1    Car
    1.3.2    Walking
    1.3.3    Home
2    More
  2.1    Police misconduct
    2.1.1    “Misconduct”, short video geared toward helping people to remember details of misconduct they witness or experience, produced by Katya Komisaruk et al
    2.1.2    Handout/ memory jogger of incident details
    2.1.3    Discussion
  2.2    Other possible topics to talk about (w/handouts by Just Cause Law Collective)
    2.2.1    Rights of demonstrators
    2.2.2    Solidarity tactics and examples
    2.2.3    Being a legal observer
  2.3    More? How are we affected (or not) by recent OPD cases?
    2.3.1    Riders case, OPD’s (ongoing) 9 years under federal judge supervision
    2.3.2    ILWU, Local 10 v. OPD, 2004, concessions by OPD

I have the equipment and materials: laptop and video projector, canopy and cover for enough daytime darkness, white material for a decent screen (though if anyone has a real one that would be great), receiver and speakers for video sound, extension cords, whiteboard, handouts, car to transport stuff and serve as power source, and (in a few days) d/c->a/c inverter.  Oh, yeah, knowledge? I’m not an attorney, but I do know the basic rights stuff and the current legal reasoning underpinning it pretty well. What I don’t know I hope to learn from other participants, or discover together. 

Caveats: Nothing said by any non-attorney is legal advice; Think for yourself!

I could use feedback on the above, please. Thanks!

Steve Wilt