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Letter to my son -
Author : Ta-Nehisi Coates
"knowing that the American Dream persist by warning with the known world, I was sad for my country, but above all, in that moment, I was sad for you."
"The destroyers are merely men enforcing the whims of our country, correctly interperting its heritage and legacy."
"To be black in the baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world"
Summary - How black skin get treated and overlooked in America. explains how the black body is destoryed thru the actions of others and its history.
This is the reality of America's Fast Fashion Addiction
Author - New york times
Talks about the addiction America has with buying disposable clothing made by low-wage workers and overtaxing.
The idea that clothes are seen diffrently online then what actuallly comes in
Photo - Good Quality
Reality - Cheap quality
The workers are called garment workers
Quote "My job is just as much stitched to consumerism as my corporate role was. And stock proceeds from that white-collar job subsidize my warehouse work."
"when we buy fast fashion from the comfort of out couches, we support a system in which low wage worker ( usually people of color) "
"Americas stock market incentivizes ever rising growth. if consumers wont accept higher prices to increase the brands profit, manufactures will cut corners in other ways such as low wages or unsafe working conditions."
"66 percent of discarded clothes end up in landfills each year, and another 19 percent are incinerated."
The end of Meat is here -
Author - Jonathan Safran Foer.
Articles talks about how important the process of meat productions is and how trumps decion to keep slaughterhouses open - 6 out of 10 spot hots for coronavirus were in slaughterhouses
Not caring about people who makes the meat health - affecting how the meat is and handled.
Iowa republican Chuck Grassley has asked trump administration to provide mental health resources for hog framers.
Quotes "A tyson plant in Perry, Iowa had 730 cases of coronavirus - nearly 60 perecent of its employees, At another Tyson plant, in waterloo, iowa, there were 1,031 reported cases among 2,800 workers."
cows produce an enourmous amount of greenhouse gas.
The mistreatment of animals while the process is done - "Turkeys are bred to be so obese that they are incapable of reproducing without artifical insemination."
Ten years after "The new Jim Crow"
Author - David Remnick
Talks about the injustice for the criminal system. And how the insitution use drug as a way to keep control and ruin the lives of many black and hispanic men.
Quotes "My imppression back then was that our criminal justice system was infected with racial bias, much in the same way that all insitutuions in our society are affected by this bias."
How The Global south got caught in the west prision pipeline
talks about the now shut down "Alligator Alcatraz" where more tha 250 people where deported in the United States
"Now closed immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz." new, foreign- funded "model" prision rising across the Caribbean."
Many Countries are funding and starting their own foregin prison in horrible conditions.
"on the Dutch Caribbean Island of Sint Maarten, the poitnt blanche prision and house of detention facilities is being rebuilt through a United Nations office and project services." spending over $52 Million USD dollors.
"conditions are : Vastly overcrowed, ride with disease, and mostly devoid of space for quailty programing such as education or job training. "
"Trinidad's Port of Spain Prison, has been condemned by courts for being unfit, overcroweded, unsanitary, and in violation of constitutional rights."
"Jamaica's tower street adult correctional centre, has no toilets in the cells, leaving human beings to defecate in newspaper sheets."
Governments are the only ones making this kind of investments, and how the United States have been a big investor for 20 years.
"Global south governments can only make these kind of investments with significant international donation or loans. The U.S has been the major player in this sector for the last twenty years, prioviding at least $5.2 billion of international criminal justice assistance funding."
Author - Baz Dreisinger and Alexus McNally
The solution to America's Mental Health Crisis Already exists
Author - The Editorial Board
talks about how overlooked mental health in America is, how homeless shelter and jail prisions have become the nations largest mental health providers.
Many people cant recive the help due to money issues as insurance might not cover it or they might not have insurance at all, and community based mental health clinics deal with Americans who have severe mental illness
"The most obvious reason is money. Community-based mental health clinics seve the vast majority of Americans with serious Mental Illnesses."
They created a new community project that enables medicaid to pay mental health clinics based on what it actually costs to care for patients.