12-04-21 Slavery in the United States

The 13th and 14th Amendments never abolished slavery.
In 2010, the Human Rights Council of the United Nations called upon the United States to finally abolish slavery...
Add to the news below the intent by IRS to hold passports of those, who owe taxes...
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Locking Down an American Workforce: Prison Labor as the Past and Future of American "Free-Market" Capitalism
Joshua B. Freeman and Steve Fraser, TomDispatch: "'Now,' means our second Gilded Age and its aftermath. In these years, the system of leasing out convicts to private enterprise was reborn. This was a perverse triumph for the law of supply and demand in an era infatuated with the charms of the free market. On the supply side, the U.S. holds captive 25% of all the prisoners on the planet: 2.3 million people. It has the highest incarceration rate in the world as well, a figure that began skyrocketing in 1980 as Ronald Reagan became president. As for the demand for labor, since the 1970s American industrial corporations have found it increasingly unprofitable to invest in domestic production."
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