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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: LONDON!! on December 29, 2010, 10:49:15 PM
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i don't know if this is still going on, but i saw this on www.globalresearch.ca, had the spread the word, but when you get the time, definetly support the cause
Support Georgia Prisoners Strike
Thousands of Georgia prisoners have refused to work, stopped all activitieslocked down in their cells in a peaceful protest
Global Research, December 16, 2010
International Action Center
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Emergency Demonstration
FRIDAY, Dec 17, 5 to 6pm
SUPPORT GEORGIA PRISONERS STRIKE
CNN HQ in NYC - 59th St & 10 Columbus Circle
(Subways A, B, C, D, 1)
Tell CNN: “Cover the prisoners’ demands of the largest
prison strike in U.S. history.”
For over week, since December 9, 2010, thousands of Georgia prisoners have refused to work, stopped all activities and locked down in their cells in a peaceful protest for their human rights. It is urgent to support this heroic act of resistance to inhuman prison conditions and racism.
CNN headquarters is based in Atlanta Georgia. CNN, owned by Time Warner, is one of the largest media conglomerates in the world. As of Dec 16, CNN and most of the major corporate media has censored this historic struggle for human rights. Demand of CNN:
STOP the censorship! Report on the Strike!
Thousands of men, from Augusta, Baldwin, Hancock, Hays, Macon, Smith and Telfair State Prisons went on strike to press the Georgia Department of Corrections (“DOC”) to stop treating them like animals and slaves and institute programs that address their basic human rights. Prisons in the U.S. are not rehabilitation centers; in reality, they are concentration camps for the poor and people of color.
The prisoners set forth the following demands:
• · a living wage for work
• · educational opportunities
• · decent health care
• · an end to cruel and unusual punishments
• · decent living conditions
• · nutritional meals
• · vocational and self-improvement opportunities
• · access to families
• · just parole decisions
While the prisoners were non-violent, the DOC violently attempted to force the men back to work—claiming it was “lawful” to order prisoners to work without pay, in defiance of the 13th Amendment’s abolition of slavery.
Inmate leaders, Black, Latino, white, Muslim, Rastafarian, Christian, have united together and vowed to strike until their demands are addressed. Together, using cell phones they coordinated this state-wide prison strike.
CNN, other media and elected officials have already received thousands of email messages of concern from an internationally circulated petition: www.iacenter.org/prisoners/gaprisonstrikepetition
Sign the petition, attend the emergency demonstration and help spread the word of support and solidarity with the Georgia prisoners strike
Called by: International Action Center, 55 West 17th Street, NY, NY 10011 212-633-6646
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give them the chair
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give them the chair
Thats stupid man. I got a family member locked up out there on some bullshit charge.
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Props to them for standing up for their Constitutional rights. The major corporations that own these prisons make billions using prison labor to undercut minimum wage laws.
Minimum wages should apply even in prison jobs.
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Props to them for standing up for their Constitutional rights. The major corporations that own these prisons make billions using prison labor to undercut minimum wage laws.
Minimum wages should apply even in prison jobs.
Minimum wages should not apply to prison jobs because they get every necessity for free.
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Not in American for-profit prisons.
These prisons often charge for food and clothing and various other necessities.
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Not in American for-profit prisons.
These prisons often charge for food and clothing and various other necessities.
Still doesn't compare to the free housing.
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I remember one idiot once laughed about the notion of a new slave sector within prisons, well here you have it!
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Ikke that's absurd. But unfortunately I think your attitude prevails in society so these abuses will likely continue as long as people continue to ignore this problem. Pretty soon close to 25% of the US population will either be a) in jail, b) just getting out or c) about to go back.
We have more people in jail than Mao's China and Stalin's USSR put together. Meanwhile we have a rapidly disappearing social safety net and poverty levels not seen since the 1930s.
More jobs are created in prisons every day than get outsourced, and the average prison wage is 10 cents.
The result is a huge underclass that the corporate world can exploit. In many areas now prisoners are banned from getting education... In what way does this help anyone prevent crime?
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I'm not getting into the subject just stating Minimum wage is high for prisoners since they don't have to pay rent which is where most people will spend most of their money on
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But even from that standpoint many prisoners have relatives who need support at least that could definitely use it and reduce pressure on the social safety net IMO.
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Ikke that's absurd. But unfortunately I think your attitude prevails in society so these abuses will likely continue as long as people continue to ignore this problem. Pretty soon close to 25% of the US population will either be a) in jail, b) just getting out or c) about to go back.
lol really? I've heard that US prisons are packed but I didn't know society was this fucked up. You don't have to be Nostradamus to know that the U S and A are doomed.
And I'm with Ikke here, most of these people have committed crimes, and slave work is a low price for most of them. Nobody of them has to starve or sth like that. They wouldn't want to change with prisoners in any other country (well maybe a few).
If a prison system can ruin your economy sth goes wrong anyway, and that's not just the treatment of prisoners.
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But even from that standpoint many prisoners have relatives who need support at least that could definitely use it and reduce pressure on the social safety net IMO.
You seem to be forgetting that prisoners are being punished.
If they need to support a family they shouldn't have been doing whatever got them in prison anyway. But in a country as corrupt as america I see where you're coming from.
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But even from that standpoint many prisoners have relatives who need support at least that could definitely use it and reduce pressure on the social safety net IMO.
You seem to be forgetting that prisoners are being punished.
If they need to support a family they shouldn't have been doing whatever got them in prison anyway. But in a country as corrupt as america I see where you're coming from.
You gotta remember the systems design though. Take poor people off the street, lock them away, force them to work for nothing...or next to nothing. No real rehabilitation. In an environment that turns men into animals. Then when their time is served, release them. With no money, no skills, no real opportunities (most employers will not hire felons), and tell them to do everything the "right" way or they come back to prison. People will survive before all else. So when you take away their ability to survive the "right" way...they will survive another way...and be right back in prison. Its just another part of the cycle that keeps the rich rich...and the poor poor.