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   (((Cindy Weinstein))) (cindyweinstein@zirk.us)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 11:34:59 JST (((Cindy Weinstein)))

   "The creation of a network of concentration camps is . . . a politics, among other things, designed to draw businesses into a fascist order by normalizing dehumanization."

   https://snyder.substack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor

   #TimothySnyder
   #Fascism
   #ConcentrationCamps

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     victorvonvortex (victorvonvortex@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 02:55:12 JST victorvonvortex

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     • Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑

     @rgulick @CindyWeinstein

     "No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama."

     "...it has constructed a template for the commercialization of mass incarceration."

     "Best Western, Bama Budweiser and Burger King are among the more than 500 businesses to lease incarcerated workers from one of the most violent, overcrowded and unruly prison systems in the U.S. in the past five years alone..."

     https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-alabama-3b2c7e414c681ba545dc1d0ad30bfaf5

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     Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑 (rgulick@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 02:55:14 JST Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑

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     @CindyWeinstein
     The companies that use slave labor from the camps must be identified and shunned by consumers. It may be the only say we have.

     Mr. Bill repeated this.