Ai Weiwei's Reach Draws New Yorkers' Attention to Free Speech

“Ai Weiwei retweeted me!” exclaimed a young blonde woman, laughing and waving her iPhone in the air with excitement. She and some two hundred other New Yorkers had gathered on the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza to show her solidarity with the iconic artist-activist currently under close government surveillance half a world away.

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