#fight like hell

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“Fight Like Hell”

[slrmagazine]

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Victoria Law also outlined those risks in no uncertain terms. "This is an environment in which a person's boss controls, or many bosses control, every single aspect of their life from when they shower to how often they're able to speak with their family. And saying no is simply not an option. Instead of simply resulting in being fired or docked pay, pissing off the boss can also get incarcerated workers' mail delayed, their visits cut short, their living quarters ransacked, their precious few comforts further curtailed, and their bodies brutalized by unsympathetic guards, many of whom enjoy the protections of their own unions."

—Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly

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…in 1970, 450 Attica prisoners had held a three day strike for higher wages. The men, who were predominately Black and Puerta Rican, worked in the prison’s metal shop manufacturing lockers and library shelves for a paltry 29¢ per hour and were stuck paying the prison’s inflated commissary prices for food and basic necessities. …the three day work stoppage resulted in a lowering of commissary prices, but its organizers were met with swift retribution from prison management. Twenty-six strikers, among them Black Panthers and alleged members of The Weatherman Faction of Students for a Democratic Society were transferred to other facilities. Fifty others were further were disciplined by losing time off for good behavior.

—Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly

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We need way more of this type of attitude from other democrats. The milquetoast arm of the democrat party has to go ASAP.

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Incarcerated people have always been a part of the workforce, and as such, a part of the labor movement, even if the movement itself has failed to recognize that. A direct line can also be drawn between the Reconstruction Era leasing system… to today’s modern prison industrial complex. The politically charged 1960s and 1970s saw an uptick in organizing activity and the rise of the prisoner’s rights movements, which married aspects of the civil rights, Black Power, Chicano, and Puerto Rican independence movements and applied them in protesting the horrors of mass incarceration.

—Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly

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The harvesters, those who work in the United States fields, farms, and food production factories remain one of the country’s most precarious and exploited work forces. The devaluation of their labor and the ignorance of their sacrifice stems from a legacy of exploitation that stretches all the way back to the enslaved African captives who powered the southern agricultural economy throughout the per-emancipation period.

—Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly

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Later that summer, the company tore down miners’ homes to build a stockade to house a new staff of involuntary incarcerated laborers and reopened. 300 miners promptly rushed the stockade, released the incarcerated workers, and put them on a train headed out of town. Aided by the governor, the coal bosses ferried the convict laborers back only to be met with 2,000 miners this time. This game of cat and mouse continued for months, culminating in late October when three stockades were burned and more than 300 incarcerated workers were clothed, given food, and set free by the miners. Most were recaptured, but 165 of them escaped to freedom.

—Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly