“From Attica to the Texas work strike of 1978 to the most recent nationwide prison strikes in 2016 and 2018,†Robert Chase, Associate Professor of History at Stony Brook University, writes, “prisoners have offered a repeated historical refrain that prisoners are not slaves, that incarceration cannot deny people their right to humanity, and that coerced prison labor remains a constitutional fixture that requires a reconsideration of what constitutes prisoners’ civil rights.â€
In this episode of “Rattling the Bars,†Eddie Conway sits down to talk with Professor Chase about his latest book “We Are Not Slaves†and the often untold history of prisoner uprisings in the 1970’s that expanded the scope and meaning of the Civil Rights movement in the U.S. Conway and Chase also discuss how the institutional response to these uprisings would pave the way to the prison-industrial complex we have today.
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Very informative
Hoe squad in the hall. ADOC..If you didn't work you were put in the hole.
Great information!
You guys are awesome.
Hi, Eddie. This was an excelltnt (!!) interview. But I'd like to address an error made by most of the "activist left" (for lack of a better term.
1. The wrong guys have the guns.
2. The Civil Rights movement needed the "ineffective" bleeding-hearts to have made any progress at all.
3. For all the sins of the founders, they wrote what they wrote, and we agreed to it. The US Constitution is the only enforceable agreement between all Americans. Including the self-ordained "patriots". (BTW, the Articles of Confederation doesn't include ANY rights for the people — only for the states.)
4.Cruel and unusual punishment is ALREADY a violation of the supreme law of the land — and common sense.
5. The Preamble not only sets out the scope and purpose of the Constitution but the order in which things need to be done. The last two items in the list is worthy of particular note. (Have we been here before?)
6. Trusting phillial ties between people and common history is not enough to assure agreements will survive traumatic upheavals, because everyone deciding which side of the road to drive on for themselves (for example) will lead to more chaos.
7. The activist left do not have any allies on the "liberal" left (Clintons liberal? On the contrary, who killed JFK?) and even fewer on the right.
8. The founders can be criticized legitimately for many things, but don't confuse "who" wrote the Constitution with "what" they wrote.
Amendment 13 was where the first mention of sex was injected which the Suffragettes had to correct. One wedge issue was substituted for another. But the principle of "equal protection of the laws", like most of the rest of the Constitution is simply common sense. Like forbidding cruel and unusual punishment — prison rape, worked to death, etc., nevermind the attempted guarantee that everyone accused of a crime has a right to defend themselves — in court.
The US Constitution is AGAIN a revolutionary document.
That said, I was impressed with your guests for the "how megacorporations exploit US prison labor" but I was not impressed with their responses to your questions. Great questions!
But THIS interview. Yeah. Wow.
Keep 'em coming old timer! Thank you!
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When America going to wake up we are slaves to the corporations to the powers that are in control change comes with bloodshed our forefathers knew this
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slavery under another name.
Since the beginning of the "black lives matter movement"? No 😲🤣ðŸ˜ðŸ˜‚ it's been going on far longer and the prison Industrial complex is about much more than "white supremacy" first off how much of a % of d Jewish I guess dat r wyte ryte ppl r in prison that r here in the usa, wat about asians? At least north east Asians?? Look I'm not saying japanese especially but rly jus northeast asians in general were treated not so nicely throughout usa history I mean first drug laws targeted em.. not saying there isn't raycism in the "criminal Justice system" but it's not so simple.. it is gray/grey not black or white. . Majority of prisoners in usa not black right? Maybe even white even if they one of the races with the least amount of their ppl in prison
Internment camps and concentration camp systems,a war on the poor
REVOLUTION Iz the only SOLUTION