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RSN: Harvey Wasserman | The Democrats Have Nowhere to Go but Left 

Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
Wasserman writes: "The 2016 Sandernista groundswell and the Rainbow Tsunami of 2018 have marked a historic shift."
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Ari Berman's book 'Give Us the Ballot' looks at the aftermath of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (photo: Anthony Cruz/Rolling Stone)

Ari Berman: Dems Introduce Sweeping Voting Rights Bill to Combat Rampant Voter Suppression
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Voting rights activists are hailing a new House bill that aims to restore voting rights to millions, crack down on the influence of dark money in politics, restore the landmark Voting Rights Act, establish automatic and same-day voter registration and other measures."
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Cyntoia Brown, a woman serving a life sentence for killing a man when she was a 16-year-old sex trafficking victim, talking with her lawyer during her clemency hearing last spring in Nashville. (photo: 

Tennessee Governor Grants Full Clemency to Cyntoia Brown, Sets August 7 Release From Prison
Adam Tamburin and Anita Wadhwani, The Nashville Tennessean
Excerpt: "Gov. Bill Haslam ordered an early release for Cyntoia Brown, a Tennessee woman and alleged sex trafficking victim serving a life sentence in prison for killing a man when she was 16."
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A march for immigrant rights. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

How the Government Shutdown Is Making the US Immigration System Even Worse
Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress
Entralgo writes: "Over two weeks into the partial federal government shutdown and with no end in sight, the fight over $5 billion for a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border wall has put the federal immigration system at standstill."
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Aerial photo of Los Angeles, California, Feburary 2011. (photo: Joe Mabel/Wikimedia)

Why the LA Teachers Strike Matters
Lois Weiner, Jacobin
Weiner writes: "This week's Los Angeles teachers strike starkly poses the question: will the public or privatizers control public education?"
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Colombians hold a demonstration in support of citizens displaced during the country's past armed conflicts, in Bogota Mar. 6, 2012. (photo: Reuters)

6 Days, 6 Deaths: More Murder of Social Leaders in Colombia
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Another Colombian rights activist was gunned down in her home for helping Afro-Colombian victims in the country's long civil conflict."
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A Greenpeace campaigner collects plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 2018. (photo: Tabor Wordelman/Teen Vogue)

I Went to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This Is What I Saw.
Alli Maloney, Teen Vogue
Maloney writes: "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), a site of marine debris considered to be twice the size of Texas, is perhaps the foremost expression of the impact of plastic waste on our world and the role of humans in environmental degradation."
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