Modern Day Slavery

Garment Workers Win Historic Victory – But There is More To Do

March 29, 2021 UNAC Editor Labor, Labor Struggles, White Supremacy, Women

by Loretto Graceffo, published on Waging Nonviolence, March 19, 2021 The PayUp campaign has clawed back $22 billion from apparel companies owed to factories and workers, and they’re just getting started. This is an interesting case study. It is current yet I haven’t seen information about it anywhere until today. The original headline claims an overwhelming victory, but actually much[…]

US Media Can’t Think How to Fight Fires Without $1-an-Hour Prison Labor

August 29, 2020 Judith Bello Labor, Prisons and Prisoners

by Neil DeMause, published on FAIR, August 25, 2020 As a historic set of wildfires sweeps across California, sparked by lightning and stoked by record heat and drought resulting from climate change (Mercury News, 8/19/20; Scientific American, 4/3/20), many news outlets have drawn readers’ attention to an additional problem the state faces in fighting the fires: shortages of the prison[…]