Tuesday, November 15, 2016

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | What It Means to Be Black During a Trump Administration 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. (photo: Getty Images) 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Washington Post 
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "Let the other groups denigrated and threatened by Trump speak for themselves. The women, immigrants, Muslims, Jews, the LGBT community and others who now must walk through the streets of their country for the next four years in shame and fear, knowing that their value as human beings has been diminished by their neighbors. I only speak for myself as an African American and I speak with the rage of betrayal." 
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Chelsea Manning Makes Appeal for Release Before Trump Takes Office 
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK 
Pilkington writes: "Chelsea Manning has made a last-ditch appeal to Barack Obama to commute her sentence for leaking state secrets to time served, calling on him to release her from military prison so that she can have her 'first chance to live a real, meaningful life.'" 
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Man Shoots Off Gun, Runs Over Standing Rock Water Protectors 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Several Dakota pipeline protesters were injured Saturday after they were run over by a construction truck as the driver drove through their gathering, firing gunshots into the air near the construction site of the pipeline according to videos and photos posted online, which prompted the local police to investigate the incident Sunday." 
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Muslims in Trump's America: Fearful but Defiant 
Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept 
Hussain writes: "While the shock of Trump's election is still reverberating, some Muslim American activists say that Trump's presidency may offer a small silver lining: the opportunity to forge alliances with other communities to defend civil liberties in the United States." 
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Thousands of Women Are Planning to March on DC When Trump Takes Office 
Claire Landsbaum, New York Magazine 
Landsbaum writes: "Just a few days after the election, women across the country are coming together to organize a Women's March on Washington the weekend Trump is sworn in as president." 
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Child Brides: The Long, Nauseating American History of Older Men Marrying Young Girls 
Libby Copeland, Slate 
Copeland writes: "According to English common law during the colonial era, the minimum permissible age for marriage was 12 for girls and 14 for boys, although kids as young as 7 could enter into a kind of unconsummated starter marriage that lasted until they were old enough to change their minds or transition into the real thing." 
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Liquid Natural Gas-by-Rail Hits Tracks in Alaska: What Are the Risks and Why the Secrecy? 
Sharon Kelly and Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog 
Excerpt: "For the first time ever, liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been shipped by railroad in the U.S., prompting concerns about risks of accidents and a lack of state or federal regulation for the new and hazardous cargo." 
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