About this site
How to use this site
Two minutes here will save you time later, and stop you relying on the wrong kind of page.
If you're new, start with Start Here
Start Here asks how much time you have, or what you're trying to do, and gives you a short list rather than a menu of forty options. Most resources of this kind hand you everything at once and let you work out the priorities. This one doesn't.
The five kinds of page, and what they're for
Guides are maintained. They are reviewed on a schedule, corrected when they're wrong, and each says when it was last checked. Rely on these.
Claims and responses are for arguments. One page per claim. Each gives you a short answer you can say out loud, the strongest version of the opposing case, and cited sources. Because each has its own page, you can send someone a link to precisely the point you mean.
The lines on those pages are a starting point. Say your own version, in your own words. Nobody is asking you to recite.
Templates are for writing something. Three blocks you assemble rather than a script you read out, a drafted opening paragraph, a bank of ways to say why you're speaking, and a range of asks from easy to hard.
Downloads are for printing. Editable, so your group's name goes on them, with black-and-white versions that survive a photocopier.
Reading the badges
Under the title of every guide you'll see small labels. The important one is the jurisdiction badge, in claret. It tells you which country's law a page describes. Protest law, employment law and hate crime law differ enormously between countries, and a page badged England & Wales may be actively misleading if you're in Ohio or Melbourne. Where a page says Applies everywhere, it makes no country-specific legal claims.
The other badges tell you roughly how much time something needs, which of the two areas of work it belongs to, and, for guides about running an event, which stage of planning it covers.
Reading the warnings
An amber banner means the page is overdue for review. We aim to check pages every six months. If a page has passed that, it says so, in the open. Treat the detail with caution and check the sources at the bottom. We'd rather show you an awkward notice than let you rely on something quietly out of date.
A claret banner means bad advice here could hurt someone. Read those pages properly rather than skimming.
A grey banner on a legal page is the reminder that none of this has been through a solicitor. It is general information, sourced so you can check it, not advice about your situation.
The short version at the top of every guide
Each guide opens with a boxed list of key points, deliberately without footnotes. That's the layer most people will actually use, so it's written to stay speakable.
One thing to be straight about, because the site was promising otherwise. The claims carry sources. Most of the guides do not, and they are not meant to. A claim entry is a contested factual argument, so every one of the 41 is built on cited evidence and averages fifteen sources. A guide is mostly practice: how to run a meeting, how to poster a street, what to do when four people turn up. There is no citation for take a laser print rather than an inkjet, and inventing one would be worse than none. Where a guide does state law, the schema refuses to build it without a titled, dated source attached, which is why the two guides that name a jurisdiction carry six and seventeen.
Printing
Every guide has a print button, and printing is properly designed rather than an accident, no navigation, black on white, and links spelled out so paper isn't a dead end. Every printed sheet carries its own URL, its jurisdiction and its review date, so a page found in a bag months later can be dated and checked.
What this site doesn't do
It doesn't take reports of incidents. It has no comments section. It doesn't track you, load fonts or scripts from anyone else's servers, or record what you search for. And it can't help with an urgent situation, if you're in one, see legal information and its limits.