The Alabama Solution
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/29/alabama-solution-documentary-review
See also Ava DuVernay’s 2016 doco The 13th (Amendment which allows slave-like exploitation of convicts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
The Alabama Solution
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/29/alabama-solution-documentary-review
See also Ava DuVernay’s 2016 doco The 13th (Amendment which allows slave-like exploitation of convicts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
Democracy Now
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/14/california_wildfires_incarcerated_firefighters
Marshall Project
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/11/los-angeles-palisades-prisoners-firefighters
Pasadena Altadena & Octavia Butler
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/13/palisades_fires
#California #wildfires #LosAngeles #Palisades #Altadena #incarceratedworkers #convictlabor
#the13th
Around Los Angeles, firefighting crews continue to battle the Palisades and Eaton fires and other smaller blazes. Nearly a thousand of the firefighters deployed to help contain the devastating fires are incarcerated. They have been working around the clock while earning as little as between $5.80 to $10.24 a day. For more on how California’s incarcerated firefighting program works, we speak to investigative journalist Keri Blakinger, who is herself formerly incarcerated, and who recently had to evacuate her home in Los Angeles.
Happy Þrettándinn!🔥🎅✨🧝♂️🧚♀️🧌✨🔥
Time to burn bonfire and dance with trolls, yule-lads and elves.
https://youtu.be/R8Nixu5697Y
(video is from Vestmannaeyjar/iceland during the Þrettándinn celebration, in case someone wonders where this is from).