| YOUR JOBS WENT TO PRISON WITH 2.3m AMERICANS http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/2012/07/your-jobs-went-to-prison-with-23m.html "Good Enuff," the poem below, is one of my 21st century slave songs. It was first published in MaryLovesJustice blog at this link http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/2011/04/good-enuff-by-mary-neal.html . A million inmates work up to 72 hours a week on jobs that were removed from "free" workers. People who champion "tough on crime" bills and candidates do not seem to recognize that prison labor projects are competing for labor contracts. They actually advertise for companies to use Americans behind bars rather than sending work overseas while plenty of cheap labor is available in the USA through prison work projects. Re Georgia Prison Labor Strike, I wrote the following poem. The Georgia prisoners' labor strike lasted from Dec. 9-15, 2010. The strike was largely censored in mainstream news although it was an Internet sensation. Therefore, a day before the strike started, eleven hundred of my tweets for human rights for prisoners were unpublished at Twitter. They were reinstated months later, after people stopped browsing online as much for "human rights for prisoners." I am America's most censored writer to continue the cover-up re the secret arrest and murder of my mentally, physically disabled brother and my family's victimization for daring to ask the USDOJ for records and accountability for his death. See the poem "Good Enuff" below. After the Georgia prisoners' labor strike, around 36 inmates were reportedly "missing." Some were badly brutalized. The nonviolent protest was met with violence and solitary confinement. GOOD ENUFF I work for the U.S. Government Worked five years for the state Now I make military uniforms Sho miss my good friend, Jake His idea sounded real fine to me Worker strike for human rights Most of us agreed to stay in our cells Got real cold in there at night They turned off the heat ya know And no food came at all Guards said "Freeze Nigga or go to work! Oughta hang you by yo balls" But all of us stuck together Thousands of black men, Latinos and whites Put aside all our rivalry Gonna make 'em treat us right We expected opposition But nothin' like what went down Guards went crazy beatin' on folks And Jake, he can't be found I tried to get on with the government Back before I started gettin' high They said there was a hiring freeze And now I sho see why I applied with the State, too But didn't nothin' came of that I guess I just wasn't good enuff 'Til they caught me with that crack Finally got me a government job Problem is, I don't get no pay A big company got my first five years After laying off a thousand in one day Our labor strike changed nothin' 'round here Still can't afford phone calls Now they expect plenty mo black workers Heard they outlawing menthol* We had high hopes for the labor strike But things didn't turn out great All day I work 'til my back is sore All night I worry 'bout Jake (Published 4/4/11 by Mary Neal - all rights reserved) Mary Neal, director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill and the Human Rights for Prisoners March Across the Internet. Blessings! Mary Neal's Google Profile - http://www.google.com/profiles/MaryLovesJustice - Follow me at Twitter @koffietime - http://twitter.com/koffietime - Current, urgent justice issues from a laywoman's viewpoint at my primary blog http://FreeSpeakBlog.blogspot.com (the name is a joke, believe me). See also http://MaryLovesJustice.blogspot.com and DogJusticeforMentallyIll http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com JusticeGagged http://JusticeGagged.blogspot.com Davis/MacPhailTruthCommittee http://DMTruth.blogspot.com Mary Neal at HubPages http://MaryNeal.hubpages.com .Recommended articles - http://topsy.com/site/freespeakblog.blogspot.com - Address: MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com (I am censored, but some emails reach my box) Try to phone me at 678.531.0262, however, none of us really has free speech, so they may prevent your call. | ||
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