Chamel Abdul Karim allegedly filmed himself burning a Kimberly-Clark warehouse in Ontario, CA. $750 million in damage. Ironically identical to what it would cost Kimberly-Clark to pay their 38,000 workers enough to live.
In human rights law, this is called structural violence. Institutions denying people what they need to survive, just as surely as physical force.
We criminalize Chamel’s response to that violence. We have not criminalized the violence itself.
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All You Had to Do Was Pay Us Enough to Live
The Kimberly-Clark warehouse fire isn’t just a crime story. It’s an economic injustice story. And corporate America wrote every word of it “All you had to do was pay us enough to live. All you had to do was pay us enough to live. There goes your inventory.


