Complicit in Neoslavery: Chris Hedges Calls Out Corporate America for Exploiting Prison Labor

[marmar]

Posted on Oct 28, 2015

Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges spoke Saturday at New York’s Rise Up October rally and march to end police violence.

In his speech, Hedges described the effects of police violence and mass incarceration on families. “There are husbands and wives severed, sometimes forever, from their spouses,” he said. “There are sisters and brothers that have been torn apart, but this morning we remember most the children, those whose mothers and fathers are locked behind bars or whose parents will never come home again, whose tiny lives have been shattered, whose childhoods have been stolen, who endure the painful stigma of loss or of having a mother or father in prison and cannot comprehend the cruelty of this world.”


http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/video_chris_hedges_calls_out_corporate_america_for_exploiting_prison_labor_

[Scuba]

1. How about US Senator Ron "Sunspot" Johnson?

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/104605089.html

Johnson's companies used prison workers

http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/apnewsbreak-johnson-nets-savings-on-prison-labor/

Republican Senate candidate Ron Johnson, who has campaigned against government subsidies to business, employs up to nine prison inmates at his plastics factories whose health care costs are paid by the state, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.

[jwirr]

2. One good reason to not vote for a corporatist. They have

invented a new form of slavery all over the world.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. Republicans LOVE the idea of blacks in prison being forced to work....

Ask one some time.