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Offline RoosGirl

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Now You Can Help Bail People Out Of Jail Every Time You Buy Something
« on: January 21, 2018, 04:55:45 pm »
Appolition links to your credit card and rounds up your purchases, donating the spare change to a fund to pay bail for people who can’t afford it.

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The site’s 7,000 users have raised over $35,000 to help free 11 people since November. Ziegler says the site adds 200 new users a day. That’s significant, because every day almost a quarter-million men and women arrested for minor offenses like loitering or drug possession remain behind bars awaiting trial despite the fact they’re still innocent in the eyes of the law–simply because they are unable to make bail.

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Re: Now You Can Help Bail People Out Of Jail Every Time You Buy Something
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2018, 05:02:23 pm »
Next time, your robber will thank you.
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"The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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