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Justice in America Episode 1: Justice for the Rich, Money Bail

Introducing a new podcast from The Appeal, featuring Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith III.

Justice in America is a podcast for everyone interested in criminal justice reform—from those new to the criminal justice system to experts who want to know more. Each episode we cover an issue related to the criminal justice system. We explain how it works and look at its impact on people, particularly poor people and people of color. We’ll also interview activists, practitioners, experts, journalists, organizers, and others, to learn. By the end of the episode, you’ll walk away with a better understanding of what drives mass incarceration and what can fix it.

The first season will cover bail, plea deals, prosecutors, prosecutor elections, voter disenfranchisement, crimmigration, women and families in the criminal justice system, and more. It will feature interviews with Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Legend, and many others, including Rashad Robinson, John Pfaff, Gina Clayton, and more.

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...my feminism has shifted a lot since I wrote this piece two years ago. Whereas I felt at the time that feminism could be found in ruthless and critical self-examination and improvement of attitudes, I wonder now if that is not also part of the high bar of perfectionism women are subjected to, and also related to the fact that the powerless, feeling at a loss to change the world, turn inward and try to change the self. I’ve often felt that the massive self-improvement fad is a symptom of this generation being deeply dissatisfied with the outer world and craving change, yet feeling powerless in all domains outside the self. In some of the most stressful and difficult parts of my life, the drive to inner perfection became strongest—as the circle of what I could control shrunk, the vigor with which I enacted that control grew, I became more inflexible and iron-fisted in my demands of myself, using the only power I had. Ultimately, this was self-limiting and only became an exercise in self-cruelty.

For all the women I have loved who were dragged through the mud (revised Jan 15, 2015)

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Kevin Tran is too precious for this world, and it distresses me.

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A rule of thumb: Dean is always lying, unless there’s music playing in the background indicating he’s telling the truth for once.

-- f-ckyeahfutbol, in this conversation.

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2014 Curling World Champions putting on their DiscoBalls and JingleBalls pants in their Comfyballs boxers - on ice!

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A series of questions to ask yourself about your story and its plot, based on things I see in stories and story premises that haven’t been thought out very well.

Why should audiences be interested in watching what your protagonists do? Are you trying to take your audience on an adventure, or are you just writing out a log of all the things you wish you could do or what you wish your life could be like? The latter is often fun to write, but not often fun to read.

Why should audiences care about your protagonists, or what happens to your protagonists?

What experience does your story offer audiences that they probably haven’t already experienced in a similar story?

What are the main obstacles to be faced? What makes them legitimate challenges or threats?

Why should audiences care whether the protagonists succeed or not? What’s at stake? What would happen if they fail?...