Adam Markel, a lawyer with 18 years of practice, recommends the documentary The Fight, produced by Kerry Washington. He says it opened his eyes to the ACLU's work defending free speech, voting rights, and transgender military service, and urges support for organizations protecting constitutional rights.
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Hey, everybody, it's Adam. And I want to recommend a movie that I saw, actually Randy and I saw last night that is spectacular. Something that I think we should all put our support behind, and that is the movie the Fight. It's a movie about the aclu. And I got to tell you, after having practiced law for 18 years, there's so much that I learned about the work of the ACLU just in watching this movie. And right now, more than more than in my recent memory, anyway, I think we all need to be supporting organizations that are fighting for causes that are about all of us. They're not about any one of us in particular about all of us. That's the one thing about the ACLU that's both controversial and glorious is the fact that it is an organization that is protecting our fundamental rights, the right to free speech. Free speech is for everybody. It covers every side of the aisle. It's not political. It's about what democracy means. And right now, more than at any other time I can think of, we've got to support organizations like that, organizations that are standing up for the disenfranchised, standing up for people that don't have a voice, or for people that have been purposely discriminated against in some way, shape, or form, whether it's transgender people in the military, where it's people's right to vote, or any other rights that are guaranteed by the Constitution. So right now, each of us, I think, has a greater responsibility first to become aware. You know, if you don't want to support, if you don't believe in it, that's fine. But my recommendation is you just find out more, you get more information. That's what I was able to do. Or at least what I felt was the net result of watching this movie was I am more informed, I am more aware, and. And right now, I am speaking out in my own way about supporting an organization that's doing things to protect all of us, the aclu. Check out the Fight. This is Kerry Washington's movie. She produced it. She's spectacular. And this movie is really a credit to her and a credit to everybody that was involved. So check it out. The Fight.
