#slave labour

Pauline Hanson's One Nation outsourcing work to Philippines

Besides, if you were actually as poor as you claimed to be you can’t just afford low quality clothes that break after the first wash. There is a difference between poor and middle class. and I’m not saying poor people don’t shop on shein, I’m saying that if you got money to spare on low quality clothes that disintegrate as you’re wearing it, you aren’t scraping for nickels. ESPECIALLY since most of you mfers who defend shein live in villas in the suburbs.

Why can't we build what they built? Because we don't believe what they believed. It's not an issue of technical ability.

- Alan Cornett

A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday said prisoners in Alabama have been denied parole and forced to work jobs at fast food restaurants as part of a “labor-trafficking scheme” that generates $450 million a year for the state, according to a press release.

Ten former and current prisoners and labor unions that represent service workers filed the lawsuit Tuesday against Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, Attorney General Steve Marshall, a beer distributor and several fast food companies. The lawsuit alleges the prison system makes money by deducting fees from the wages of prisoners. Private companies such as KFC, Wendy’s. Burger King and McDonalds get a steady supply of workers from the prison system, the lawsuit says.

Red dots cover the faces of all the men who enslaved people in John Trumbull’s painting “Declaration of Independence” (1818) (collage by Arlen Parsa)

Parsa later created another collage of the painting, marking the men who later freed the people they enslaved with yellow dots. Does highlighting the figures who were not enslavers put them on an undeserved pedestal, given their likely participation in many other racist practices? Parsa believes that we can focus on one without losing sight of the other.

“When I read about Declaration signers like John Adams who lawyered on behalf of enslaved people trying to free them in court, it’s a reminder that many white people at the time absolutely did view slavery as loathsome. That puts a lie to the notion that ‘nobody knew any better back then.'”