#LegalSlavery

2025-01-25

Text I just sent to my family member who likely voted for Trump, but did so begrudgingly bc (paraphrasing) 'Kalama supports Defund the Police, and that's too radical.' I'll call this person "Potential Convert" so their initials will be "PC" :bongoCat:
Follow to see the other texts I send my trump-voting/excusing family members, as I digest the sh*t our government is doing to us.

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦dgoldsmith
2025-01-17

“Kind of”? This is one reason why the US has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world.


flipboard.com/@motherjones2021

2024-03-08

@justafrog @StillIRise1963

I am awaiting in the legal battle when these in principle well intended laws don't go only against "evil third-world countries", but also about slave-like practices such as prison work in allies like the US.
If the center-left German government does not block the law on EU level, though.

ecchr.eu/en/ could be the right ones to make the legal case.

#ECCHR #StopSlavery #LegalSlavery #Lieferkette #Lieferkettengesetz #Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtgesetz

2024-01-30

#legalSlavery #ThereIsNoEthicalConsumptionUnderCapitalism

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

"A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.
..."

apnews.com/article/prison-to-p

#prison #slave #labor #UnitedStates #capitalism #labor #labour #laborRights #AssociatedPress

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