Some of our neighbors are going to spend some time incarcerated as a result of their direct action in protest of the inland port. Their friends should arrange to provide them with copies of Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”
It’s not so much that those few protesters need to read that essay which was, as was said of the Declaration of Independence, an expression of the American mind. Though they do need to read it.
It’s that, in the process of passing the books through security, having them checked for knives and weed and other forms of contraband, there is some small hope that the jailers, and their employers, will read it, too.