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Breaking: Supreme Court rules people convicted of domestic violence can’t buy guns
On Monday, in the case of Voisine v. the United States, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision that prohibits people convicted of domestic violence from purchasing guns in a 6-2 vote. The court also ruled on the restrictive Texas abortion law that caused numerous clinics to close.
Please help us, that isn’t easy for me to say, but I’m more than willing. My family really needs help, if you’re close with us you know my amazing mom, Veronica Hill, recently finished school and has been working as nurse; her lifelong goal. With that blessing however, we lost all government...
Please help us, that isn’t easy for me to say and it’s not something I want to ask, but I’m more than willing. My family really needs help, if you’re close with us you know my amazing mom, Veronica Hill, recently finished school and has been working as nurse; her lifelong dream. Along with that blessing however, we lost all government assistance, including Section 8, which I’m not embarrassed to admit is the only reason we’ve been able to avoid being homeless again, since about 2011. Because she’s out of school, she has to pay on her student loans, payments that are about $780 dollars a month. We don’t qualify for food stamps, she has to pay for health insurance, we simply can’t afford rent right now, and starting in July we’d owe $1200 a month on top of everything else. My mother is a strong woman, an incredible mother and she’s doing everything she can, but we need help. Please help us from homelessness. She’s so drained and I just miss my mom. I really just want her to have a little faith again; a bit of peace for her to get back on her feet all the way to not feel so crushed.
You think once you’re finally out of poverty it will get easier, but then you’re worse off than before left to figure it out in the cycle of poverty. It’s likely if we can’t figure this out soon my two younger siblings Asuncion and Julius, will have to move back to VA. The last thing I want is for my family to be separated, so I’m begging. I’m asking for a miracle I know, but we just need help, the amount the point we’re at, a dollar is a gift. Please, help my family get out of this cycle, please help us I know the goal is lofty but I don’t expect it all. I ask even if you can’t donate, which I understand, everyone is struggling; but that you can help share this one.
If there’s any information I can provide or anything else you need to feel confident in donating, please don’t be reluctant to ask I can be reached here most times of day.
SHES SO HAPPY!
They don’t play that shit in 2016
Expose these niggas
Daaamn!! He dead ass looks like that monster too lmao 😁😁💀💀
expose him!
EXPOSE HIM!!
EXPOSE HIM!!
Japanese artist Sachiko Abe sits atop a building in a white gown, cutting countless sheets of A4 paper into thin, wispy strips. The performance piece known as Cut Paper
this is art
im dying
You won't believe who's on this list.
Once slavery was abolished in 1865, manufacturers scrambled to find other sources of cheap labor—and because the 13th amendment banned slavery (except as punishment for crimes), they didn’t have to look too far. Prisons and big businesses have now been exploiting this loophole in the 13th amendment for over a century.
“Insourcing,” as prison labor is often called, is an even cheaper alternative to outsourcing. Instead of sending labor over to China or Bangladesh, manufacturers have chosen to forcibly employ the 2.4 million incarcerated people in the United States. Chances are high that if a product you’re holding says it is “American Made,” it was made in an American prison.
On average, prisoners work 8 hours a day, but they have no union representation and make between .23 and $1.15 per hour, over 6 times less than federal minimum wage. These low wages combined with increasing communication and commissary costs mean that inmates are often released from correctional facilities with more debt than they had on their arrival. Meanwhile, big businesses receive tax credits for employing these inmates in excess of millions of dollars a year.
While almost every business in America uses some form of prison labor to produce their goods, here are just a few of the companies who are helping prisoners pay off their debt to society, so to speak.
Whole Foods. The costly organic supermarket often nicknamed “Whole Paycheck” purchases artisan cheese and fish prepared by inmates who work for private companies. The inmates are paid .74 cents a day to raise tilapia that is subsequently sold for $11.99 a pound at the fashionable grocery store.
McDonald’s. The world’s most successful fast food franchise purchases a plethora of goods manufactured in prisons, including plastic cutlery, containers, and uniforms. The inmates who sew McDonald’s uniforms make even less money by the hour than the people who wear them.
Wal-Mart. Although their company policy clearly states that “forced or prison labor will not be tolerated by Wal-Mart”, basically every item in their store has been supplied by third-party prison labor factories. Wal-Mart purchases its produce from prison farms where laborers are often subjected to long, arduous hours in the blazing heat without adequate sunscreen, water, or food.
Victoria’s Secret. Female inmates in South Carolina sew undergarments and casual-wear for the pricey lingerie company. In the late 1990’s, 2 prisoners were placed in solitary confinement for telling journalists that they were hired to replace “Made in Honduras” garment tags with “Made in U.S.A.” tags. Victoria’s Secret has declined to comment.
Aramark. This company, which also provides food to colleges, public schools and hospitals, has a monopoly on foodservice in about 600 prisons in the U.S. Despite this, Aramark has a history of poor foodservice, including a massive food shortage thatcaused a prison riot in Kentucky in 2009.
AT&T. In 1993, the massive phone company laid off thousands of telephone operators—all union members—in order to increase their profits. Even though AT&T’s company policy regarding prison labor reads eerily like Wal-Mart’s, they have consistently used inmates to work in their call centers since ’93, barely paying them $2 a day.
BP. When BP spilled 4.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf coast, the company sent a workforce of almost exclusively African-American inmates to clean up the toxic spill while community members, many of whom were out-of-work fisherman, struggled to make ends meet. BP’s decision to use prisoners instead of hiring displaced workers outraged the Gulf community, but the oil company did nothing to reconcile the situation.
From dentures to shower curtains to pill bottles, almost everything you can imagine is being made in American prisons. Also implicit in the past and present use of prison labor are Microsoft, Nike, Nintendo, Honda, Pfizer, Saks Fifth Avenue, JCPenney, Macy’s, Starbucks, and more. For an even more detailed list of businesses that use prison labor, visit buycott.com, but the real guilty party here is the United States government. UNICOR, the corporation created and owned by the federal government to oversee penal labor, sets the condition and wage standards for working inmates.
One of the highest-paying prison jobs in the country? Sewing American flags for the state police.
good to fucking know. damn.
understand that when people are making money off of prisoners, then the state will have even more incentive to send people to prison. they way they do that is by making as many thing illegal as possible and focusing those efforts on black and hispanic communities because fuck our lives.
sense of humor: celebrities tweeting nonsensical phrases and/or straight up keysmashes
i think bo burnham is my sugar daddy
ok but did he deliver
of course
period.
(a photo series shot by sisters rupi and prabh kaur. art direction by rupi kaur.)
i bleed each month to help make humankind a possibility. my womb is home to the divine. a source of life for our species. whether i choose to create or not. but very few times it is seen that way. in older civilizations this blood was considered holy. in some it still is. but a majority of people. societies. and communities shun this natural process. some are more comfortable with the pornification of women. the sexualization of women. the violence and degradation of women than this. they cannot be bothered to express their disgust about all that. but will be angered and bothered by this. we menstruate and they see it as dirty. attention seeking. sick. a burden. as if this process is less natural than breathing. as if it is not a bridge between this universe and the last. as if this process is not love. labour. life. selfless and strikingly beautiful.
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I am moved every time i see/read this piece.
