“Whistle-blowing is never rewarded,” says Edward Snowden, who leaked documents exposing the NSA’s mass surveillance program in 2013. And yet, despite enormous personal sacrifice and risk, whistleblowers provide an essential check on power. They can change the course of history.
Artist Eddie Guy explores how whistle-blowing - and the ability to speak vigorously and freely without fear - is fundamental to democracy and lifts up all who live with the costs of corrupt institutions. Eddie's illustration was done for the Winter issue of the ACLU Magazine.
