

How to break the law and get away with it:
Legal foundations of civil disobedience
By Martin Girard

Dedicated to civil rights pioneers past and present who broke unjust laws until society caught up.
Credits to someone who does “absolutely-fucking-not” want to be named for editing this work.
Cover picture was captured at a rally for the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) at Victory Square in Vancouver, British Columbia, on November 3 2023. Subject is David Hann, of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), shown literally breaking the law by smashing a piñata of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act with a hockey stick.
© 2026 by Martin Girard is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Author is copyright holder of every illustration unless otherwise noted. All third party copyrighted material excerpts are used with proper attribution but without permission under the fair dealing exemption of Canada’s Copyright Act. If you believe your copyright is being violated, sue me.
Author is not a lawyer, and no portion of this work should be construed as legal advice—quite the contrary.
First release: April 2026
Published by RevolutionNow.ca
https://revolutionnow.ca/
ISBN: 978-1-0675978-2-5