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Michelle Alexander | It's Time for Mass Clemency From Obama 
Michelle Alexander. (photo: MichelleAlexander.com) 
Michelle Alexander, Michelle Alexander's Facebook Page 
Alexander writes: "Time is running out for thousands of people who have been holding out hope that they or their loved ones might be granted clemency before President Obama leaves office." 
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Trump's Election Sees More Than 1,000 Hate Crimes in a Month 
teleSUR 
teleSUR writes: "Over 1,000 hate crimes have been reported since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, the rate dropping since the days after election day but over a third of them still making reference to Trump." 
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Lawyers for Standing Rock Protesters Are Pleading for More Help 
Carimah Townes, ThinkProgress 
Townes writes: "Trials for Dakota Access Pipeline protesters begin next week, but there aren't enough attorneys to take their cases. The Morton County Sheriff's Department lists 264 people who have no lawyer at all, and the 265 people who have been assigned public defense attorneys aren't receiving adequate counsel." 
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"The Price of a Second Chance": How the Rich Pay to Expunge Criminal Records 
Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh and Shaila Dewan, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "The New York Times has just published investigation into a program called pretrial diversion that's meant to give criminal offenders a break, but often puts them in debt." 
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How Long Will You Live? That Depends on Your Zip Code 
Celine Gounder, Guardian UK 
Gounder writes: "Where you live in America predicts not just how long you'll live but also how you'll die. The 'Black Lung mountains' run along the border of West Virginia and Kentucky. They are the epicenter of the so-called 'hillbilly heroin' epidemic." 
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Deportation Profits: El Salvador's Call-Center Industry Is Profiting off US Deportees 
Hilary Goodfriend, Jacobin 
Goodfriend writes: "I had chosen a Mr. Donut cafe in San Salvador to meet Raul. An agent in El Salvador's burgeoning call-center industry, Raul had been a member of the so-called 1.5 Generation of immigrants who were born abroad but spent their formative years in the United States, before he was deported." 
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If You Want to See How Donald Trump Will Destroy the Environment, Read This Legislative Roadmap 
Sharon Lerner, The Intercept 
Lerner writes: "If you've been wondering which environmental protections the incoming administration will target and how exactly they'll try to undo them, take a look at the Competitive Enterprise Institute's legislative agenda, 'Free to Prosper.'" 
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