Redacted Edition: Standing With Those Who Stand Up (See reasons for redaction at end of post) It was a grey, rainy day yesterday, and as I looked through the bleak square of window, I found myself thinking about people in prison. For them, the world must often look like that too — except without even the hope that tomorrow’s view might be brighter. So I began writing a message of support to a man in the United States who was awaiting trial for taking photographs inside a marine‑animal facility. At the time, some states were considering laws that would make it illegal to document conditions in agricultural or industrial settings — laws that would have prevented the public from ever seeing how much of our food is produced. It felt important to reach out. But then I thought: perhaps it would be even better to help someone actually get released. So I began looking through the many petitions circulating at the time — petitions on behalf of people arrested for speaking out, defending o...
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