Rick Snyder, the 48th Governor of Michigan, took office in 2011 pledging to put politics aside, and do what was best for the State. Unlike other Republicans, he said, his intention was not to push a hardline agenda of privatization and union busting. “I don’t believe in privatization,” the self-proclaimed ‘tough nerd’ said in 2012. […]
Tag Archives: for-profit prisons
Privatization of Michigan’s prison food service industry pays off in maggots, violence and increased corporate earnings
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Food, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged AFSCME, anti-union, Aramark, maggots, Muskegon Heights, prison industry, prisoner rights, privatization, Rick Snyder, union busting 17 Comments
Merry Christmas from the people behind the scenes
From the garment workers of Bangladesh who died to give you those ‘everyday low prices’ you love so much at Walmart to the religious prisoners of China who made those holiday decorations you bought on Black Friday at Kmart, the slave laborers of the world wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, […]
Posted in Observations, Rants Also tagged Bangladesh, Black Friday, cheap labor, child labor, China, Christmas, consumption, factories, Falun Gong, garment workers, Kmart, lingerie, prison labor, religion of consumption, slavery, Victoria's Secret, Walmart 16 Comments
Angela Davis to commemorate MLK Day at U-M with a speech on the threat of the prison industrial complex
Activist, educator and author Angela Davis will be in Ann Arbor on Monday, delivering a lecture titled “Impediments to the Dream: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Dream.” Davis, as I suspect many of you know, before going on to have a successful career as an academic in the History of Consciousness Department as U-C […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized Also tagged 1970, Angela Davis, Bob Sloan, Communism, Corrections Corporation of America, Elliott Currie, ex-prisoners, History of Consciousness Department, Impediments to the Dream: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Dream, Judge Harold Haley, kidnapping, Martin Luther King Day, murder, Natalie Holbrook, prison industrial complex, prison industry, prison labor, prison reform, prisoner rights, private prisons, Pure Michigan, racism, Soledad Brothers, Students Organizing Against Prisons, University of California Santa Cruz 11 Comments