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

Refuse to work-->no parole
Join a union-->no parole
Go on strike-->no parole
Ask for wages-->no parole

Frosted Flakes
Ball Park hot dogs
Gold Medal flour
Coca-Cola
Dominos Pizza
Burger King
Kroger
Target
Whole Foods
Cosco
Walmart
McDonalds
Cargill
Tyson
Louis Dreyfus
Archer Daniels Midland

Much of this constitutionally protected slave labor occurs on former slave plantations, like Louisiana's Angola Prison.

https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

#workingclass #classwar #prison #slavery #abolition #racism #BlackMastodon

Hidden prison labor web linked to foods from Target, Walmart

In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. They are on the shelves of most supermarkets, including Kroger, Target and Whole Foods. They’re also exported. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of color. Some are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work – or face punishment – and are sometimes paid pennies an hour or nothing at all. They also are excluded from protections guaranteed to almost all other full-time workers, even when they are seriously injured or killed on the job. And it can be almost impossible for them to sue.

AP News

Going through the box with tapes. Chanced upon Sportchestra! – 101 Songs About Sport on a C90

(By Chumbawamba and friends)
https://youtu.be/Ae4sNKoumAo?si=-HtY_BAPxplECYCL&t=5994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae4sNKoumAo&list=RDAe4sNKoumAo&index=1&t=5995s

#Music #Eighties #Punk #ClassWar

Sportchestra! – 101 Songs About Sport

YouTube

I do not abide. I dissent, often & loudly. I kneel for spiritual prayers & when honouring my ancestors, not dipshit, inhumane billionaires or government sellouts or their weak minions.
I will accept any personal consequences for refusing to hold up/protect shitass status quo.
I am personally committed to building up alternative community assistance networks. For the peoples. By the peoples.

#AnarchoSocialist #Grassroots #AntiCapitalist #PeopleHelpingPeople #NoDissentNoDemocracy #ArrestPoliticians #ImprisonBillionaires #ClassWar #AntiColonialResistance

#NoKings isn't a #CultureWar. Difference between #right & #left is not that the right is the "culture of violence", & that the left is that of "nonviolence." The right directs it's violence at it's fellow workers, where as the left focuses it's violence at the #EpsteinClass. #NoWar but #ClassWar
#Inflation exposes the deeply anti-democratic nature of how we access goods in a capitalist #economy. They put the blame on workers for excessive consumption, but economists admit it can be ascribed to exuberant and excessive #profit margins. There is no such thing as a deterministic moment defining the point at which prices have to go up, because wages went up.”
#Banksters #DNB #ECB #ClassWar #greed

http://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/03/24/meta-must-pay-375-million-over-allegedly-enabling-child-exploitation/

A New Mexico jury ruled Tuesday that Meta enabled child exploitation on its platforms and misled users about the platforms’ impact on children’s mental health—a landmark decision that could set precedent as Meta battles similar allegations at the federal level.

#Meta #markZuckerberg #facebook #instagram #uspol #childExploitation #MAGA #fascism #classwar

Meta Will Pay $375 Million For Allegedly Failing To Stop Child Exploitation Online

The lawsuit concerned allegations that Meta covered up its platforms’ impact on children's mental health and its knowledge of child exploitation online.

Forbes

I thought it was bad enough when FOR LEASE signs started popping up in storefronts all over town.

But lately some have turned into FOR SALE signs. 😬

#economics #classwar #usa #economy