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   mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 16:08:43 JST mekka okereke :verified:

   Don't listen to me! Seriously! I'm just some dude on the internet. I just talk. They let anyone make an account here. No vetting! So when I talk about Angola prison farm being a slave plantation, you don't have to listen to me. I might just be making it all up!

   https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111666235105229571

   It's not like I'm a Pulitzer prize winning journalist or anything. You should listen to Pulitzer prize winning journalists instead. One is good, two are better. Like these two:

   https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

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     Ryn (rynufe@indg.club)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 01:12:07 JST Ryn

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     @mekkaokereke Angola prison farm literally used to be, once upon a time, a Houma tribal farm, that's my people's og lands. Then as colonization moved in it was stolen and transitioned and became a plantation, then shifted to become the prison complex it is today over time. The field that was the original Houma site is still there, they brought in a group of Houma administrators and elders to do a site visit so they very much know exactly what and where it is. I think about this history a lot.

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 01:45:31 JST mhoye

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     @mekkaokereke I don't think enough people have realized that allowing prisoners to be used as cheap labor means that you, citizen of the outside, are now competing with them for work. And there's just no way to be more cost competitive with an enslaved labor force that has no minimum wage and no rights. You can oppose prison labor for all sorts of good reasons, but one of them is naked working-class self-interest.

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     (Matthew)=> return 🏳‍🌈🇿🇦🎮💻📖 (mdstevens0612@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 01:45:31 JST (Matthew)=> return 🏳‍🌈🇿🇦🎮💻📖

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     @mhoye @mekkaokereke

     Funny thing is, right, a certain kind of person will read this and think "Oh, you should get three meals, a bed and a livable wage in prison? That's living better than I do" and somehow doesn't think that it's incredible how shit our lives are under capitalism that prison starts looking like an enticing proposition. If we aren't living better than the literally incarcerated population, what are we doing?