Josh Tulkin is the field director of the largest youth electoral mobilization in the country, in terms of people on working hard on the ground - Power Vote. Therefore it comes as a shock when the state of MD decides this week to let Josh know that he was suspected of terrorism and monitored for a period of time.
He is going public with this story, and working with the ACLU to bring attention to the paranoid infringement of rights that people working to change this country for the better must endure. At a time when British activists have won a court case based on the need to stop climate change and Al Gore has repeatedly called for civil disobedience, we can't let this intimidate us.
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Best line: "We should be supported, not suspected."
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