Fund The Frontline
Please support local, frontline human rights protections that has a high social impact.
Melbourne Activist Legal Support has been fielding Legal Observer Teams at protests, monitoring and reporting on public order policing, and providing human rights training and legal resources for protest movements for over 12 years.
We are proudly independent, grassroots, and all-volunteer.
Your monthly donation will build our capacity to defend civil and political rights in Melbourne and across Victoria.
Stand up for human rights with us!
Your donation will:
- Strengthen frontline human rights advocacy
- Train and equip legal observers so we can field more teams at more protest actions
- Build our capacity for human rights evidence gathering, reporting, and legal referrals
- Support our amazing volunteer lawyers and human rights advocates
- Support activists who are targeted because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, or political stance
- Provide Know Your Rights training to hundreds of new activists taking the streets for first time
- Produce more activist legal information resources
- Hold more police accountable for misconduct and excessive force
- Push back against anti-protest laws, expanding police powers, and increased weaponry