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Pluto [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netBanned to Antiwork@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Is slavery back in Alabama?

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Is slavery back in Alabama?

www.peoplesworld.org

Pluto [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netBanned to Antiwork@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Is slavery back in Alabama? Adam Obernauer, organizing director for the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union—one of five organizations, including the AFL-CIO, now suing to stop it—says “yes.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1462704

We are not talking about the “New Jim Crow.”

We’re talking about the old one.

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    Why does this single out Alabama? Isn’t prison labor all over the US?

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    There’s a reason the land of the free has the highest prison population in the world by any metric you choose.

    Eliminate the right to enslave prisoners and watch our prison/justice system fix itself REAL quick once it costs money instead of providing a free workforce.

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      Eyyup…

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