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school to prison pipeline Bernie Sanders' "Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education" will desegregate schools, defund charters, pay teachers, end the school-to-prison pipeline Cory Doctorow
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debtors prisons Jeff Sessions encourages courts to continue practice of fining poor people for being too poor to pay their fines Cory Doctorow
poverty as judgement Louisiana's public defender's office is largely nonexistent so poor people just plead guilty Cory Doctorow
meritocracy is a comforting delusion Multigenerational wealth makes white Americans richer than black Americans Cory Doctorow
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voting rights act "Massive scale" shut-down of polling places in districts known for suppressing black voters Cory Doctorow
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new jim crow 2016: the first presidential election in 50 years without Voting Rights Act protections Cory Doctorow
