Peter RileyFeb 4, 2025

Plutes, Capos, bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-49/

#labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #incarceratedworkers #prisonlabour #exploitation
#IWOC #iww

In Contempt #49: Interview with IWOC Organizer Julio “Comrade Z” Zuniga

In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays. There’s a lot happening, so let’s dive right in! Feature: Interview with Julio “Comrade Z” Zuniga In the following interview, we speak with Julio "Comrade...

It's Going Down
Peter RileyJan 28, 2025
Meme-ing what you say is saying what you #meme ?
#ZuckerMuskian media Era
#SlopWare - dysphemism for today’s “generative” (read: plagiarative) #ai -
#enshittification #incarceratedworkers
#prisonlabour
Show threadKevinOnEarthJan 23, 2025
@TheConversationUS @histodons @blackmastodon
#PrisonLabour
MusiqueNow   ✡️ 🇵🇸 Jan 14, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4T4fQsI2KQ&pp=ygUNZGVtb2NyYWN5IG5vdw%3D%3D

#DemocracyNow

#PrisonLabour in the Spotlight, as #Incarncerated #California #Firefighters Risk Lives for $5 to $10 a day

#LAWildfires

Prison Labor in the Spotlight as Incarcerated California Firefighters Risk Lives for $5-10/Day

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OpticalNail 🇵🇸Jan 9, 2025

Many of the people battling the fires around Los Angeles are prison inmates being paid around $6-10/day with much worse working conditions than normal firefighters.

We used to call this slavery.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2025/01/09/due-to-slavery-clause-30-of-la-fires-are-being-fought-by-inmates/

#LosAngeles #USA #wildfires #PrisonLabour

Due To “Slavery Clause,” 30% Of LA Fires Are Being Fought By Inmates

30% of those battling the Los Angeles wildfires are Inmates firefighters. There maximum day rate of $10.24 is due to the 13th Amendment's 'Slavery Clause'. Is this fair?

Forbes
MusiqueNow   ✡️ 🇵🇸 Sep 7, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDzL_2EP0mU

#MorePerfectUnion 3 days ago

#Alabama is Generating Billions by Trapping People in #Prison

Farming people out to places like McDonald's to work for FREE. Corporations ans the state of ALABAMA EXPLOITING #PRISONLABOUR

Other scumbag companies and government agencies, etc: Burger King, Wendy's, The State Troopers' Office, the parole office

#AlabamaWorkReleaseProgramme

Alabama Is Generating Billions by Trapping People in Prison

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Show threadBupuJun 19, 2024

We (like Americans) also have modern slavery in the form of prison labour.
Recently, #Canadaland did a 3-part mini-series on prison labour as a part of their larger series on labour in general. This form of modern slavery takes advantage of BIPOC bodies.

If we want to abolish slavery, the work is not done yet.

#Labour #PrisonLabour #Canada #Slavery

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/work-10-prison-labour-industrial-complex/

WORK #10 - Prison Labour Industrial Complex

Not only do Canadian prisoners work for for-profit businesses, but they’re sometimes doing the most dangerous and nauseating work around

CANADALAND
Show threadKevin Karhan Dec 28, 2023

@Radical_EgoCom @davel
Yeah, like no shit.
#Germany for examply is anything but #socialist - not even the #GDR was but that's beyond the point.

#SocialSafetyNets are a way to keep #SocialPeace in lieu of #militarizing #police and using #PrisonLabour as #Neoslavery for cheap #labour.
Because happy or at least content workers are more comfortable and less likely to demand meaningful &fundamental change...

Because that's literally why the state mandates living standards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs&t=627s

The Rules for Rulers

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Matt HodgkinsonDec 1, 2023
Your Black Friday deal might have been made by Chinese prisoners.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/chinese-prisoners-id-card-apparently-found-regatta-coat-lining-derbyshire
#ChinesePrisoners #BlackFriday #PrisonLabour
Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat

UK brand says investigation shows individual was paid employee, not inmate, as Derbyshire customer raises concern over prison labour [update - see footnote]

The Guardian
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDJun 19, 2023
We need #reparations, major prison amnesty, an end to #prisonlabour, an end to the #DrugWar, an end to discrimination in banking, massive reconstruction in cities, a federal #JobsGuarantee, and a 21st century #WarOnPoverty, as a start. Until then, don't pretend #equality exists.