Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.

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• BranBucket@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Killer Mike warned us back in 2012.

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  • reptar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Such a good track

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Alabama and slavery…

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• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This country is so fucked. We haven’t updated the Constitution since the 18th century and even has slavery in its wording ffs.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Slavery

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• TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Found this bad boi a while back and applied personal boycotts. Assume that it’s still accurate after five years but haven’t found an updated version. Prison labour is slave labour by another name.

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• rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anyone have any resources to get more involved to fight against this?

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So if they can get rid of all the brown minorities, then there won’t be anyone to protest against re-enslavement of black people! So it will be a white world again!

  With concubines, slaves, torture, murder, abuse of women!

  My wife did not get her ballot for this election! WTF! We’ve been voting for many years by mail.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is your wife a white male land owner ?

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    • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nope unfortunately.

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• HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What if you just sit down on the ground and refuse to do anything? I’d rather go to solitary

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  • Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “I’d rather go to solitary” is said by people who have never had to endure it. Anyone who has actually been in solitary will agree that it was literal torture. For the first day, you’re just bored. By the third day, you’re hallucinating, seeing things crawling around in your peripheral vision and hearing whispers through the walls. By the end of the week, you’re having full blown conversations with ghosts, and can’t tell if you’re awake or asleep. You’re lucky if you haven’t seriously injured yourself by the end of it, because at least pain is stimulating. Then when the guard slides your food through the door slot after a week, they hear you screaming at ghosts and see the blood smeared across the wall, and casually add another week of solitary because you’re being uncooperative.

    The human brain desperately craves stimulation. It craves stimulation so badly that when it can’t find any, it makes its own.

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  • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then they ask the next guy.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You will get beaten.

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• pancakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The US just loves the vibes of slavery

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• stressballs@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anybody got a link to the story?

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    apr.org/…/ap-report-alabama-profits-off-prisoners…

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