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“First of all, protesting is a right. It’s a basic human right,” said Kym Smith, one of the local bail fund organizers who has spent hours at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center over the past week helping release detained protesters. “And second of all, if we really want change, we need people to stay in the street. … We’re really working together as a community to keep this movement going.”