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Free the People\u2019s latest film, How to Love Your Enemy: A Restorative Justice Story<\/a> is not just a story about criminal justice reform. It is a guide for people wanting to change the one-size-fits-all criminal justice system in their own communities. This is a call to action. We have an opportunity to learn from what they did in Longmont, Colorado, and to do it in our own cities. Take back your justice system, take responsibility for solving problems. Make sure that power happens from the bottom up, because that\u2019s what liberty is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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