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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Jan 7, 2015
Eddie Conway and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges continue their discussion about the forms of slavery and exploitation thriving in today’s U.S. prison system
From the archives:
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Chris ends by talking about predatory corporate entities like the defence, security & surveillance “industries.”
As Jerry “Peacemaker” suggests, the hypocrisy of exploitative incarceration is just legion. I’d add another to that corporate list ~ the “deception industry.”
This really is the lowest, most base and depraved epoch, because of the sheer lunacy of greed and paranoia, an age that’s witnessing the death throws of capitalism. The cadaver is writhing with corruption that is devouring it from the inside.
It is a hideous seething spectacle of dreadful terminal corruption. The stench is simply appalling, all branches of “government” are afflicted with the disease.
If we must have “prisons” why not model them on earlier monastic principles, and cultivate inmate-run market gardens at the very centre, so they could grow their own wholesome food-stuffs, prepare them for themselves and discover healthy self-sufficiency, even selling their surplus or adding value by establishing canning, juicing and freezing facilities?
Sure, it would take some imagination and a steel will to make a real difference ~ but, why not?
Organization is indeed the key to everything and nothing organizes more efficiently and effectively than Nature…ultimately She is our noblest and truest Teacher, the authentic arbiter of our collective destiny..
I couldn’t agree more with you, David. In other countries, there are prison farms.
Just posted this article, https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2015/01/10/the-year-of-the-pig-should-workers-support-police-strikes/, which states,
We must look at the big picture. End Capitalism!
Corrections Corporation of America. Prisoners who earn degrees while serving time have a 4% recidivism rate, compared to 60% for those who don’t, $40-50,000 per prisoner per year, while university graduates in all fields, fully capable of teaching in prisons, are unable to find full time positions.
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