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summer ante portas

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00:44 +0300

summer ante portas

lolly pop

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:01:20 +0300

lolly pop

urban photography

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:01:26 +0300

urban photography

urban stories

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:01:39 +0300

urban stories

thepeoplesrecord: Prison Labor Exposed: From Starbucks to...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:01:03 +0300

thepeoplesrecord:

Prison Labor Exposed: From Starbucks to Microsoft - A sampling of what US prisoners make & for whom
May 21, 2013

Tens of thousands of US inmates are paid from pennies to minimum wage—minus fines and victim compensation—for everything from grunt work to firefighting to specialized labor.

The breaded chicken patty your child bites into at school may have been made by a worker earning twenty cents an hour, not in a faraway country, but by a member of an invisible American workforce: prisoners. At the UnionCorrectional Facility, a maximum security prison in Florida, inmates from a nearby lower-security prison manufacture tons of processed beef, chicken and pork for Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE), a privately held non-profit corporation that operates the state’s forty-one work programs. In addition to processed food, PRIDE’s website reveals an array of products for sale through contracts with private companies, from eyeglasses to office furniture, to be shipped from a distribution center in Florida to businesses across the US. PRIDE boasts that its work programs are “designed to provide vocational training, to improve prison security, to reduce the cost of state government, and to promote the rehabilitation of the state inmates.”

And Each month, California inmates process more than 680,000 pounds of beef, 400,000 pounds of chicken products, 450,000 gallons of milk, 280,000 loaves of bread, and 2.9 million eggs (from 160,000 inmate-raised hens).Starbucks subcontractor Signature Packaging Solutions has hired Washington prisoners to package holiday coffees (as well as Nintendo Game Boys). Confronted by a reporter in 2001, a Starbucks rep called the setup “entirely consistent with our mission statement.”

Texas inmates produce brooms and brushes, bedding and mattresses, toilets, sinks, showers, and bullwhips.

In Texas, prisoners make officers’ duty belts, handcuff cases, and prison-cell accessories. California convicts make gun containers, creepers (to peek under vehicles), and human-silhouette targets.

A stitch in time: California inmates sew their own garb. In the 1990s, subcontractor Third Generation hired 35 female South Carolina inmates to sew lingerie and leisure wear for Victoria’s Secret and JCPenney. In 1997, a California prison put two men in solitary for telling journalists they were ordered to replace “Made in Honduras” labels on garments with “Made in the usa.”

Open wide: At California’s prison dental laboratory, inmates produce a complete prosthesis selection, including custom trays, try-ins, bite blocks, and dentures.

Constructive criticism: Prisoners in for burglary, battery, drug and gun charges, and escape helped build a Wal-Mart distribution center in Wisconsin in 2005, until community uproar halted the program. (Company policy says, “Forced or prison labor will not be tolerated by Wal-Mart.”)

On call: Its inmate call centers are the “best kept secret in outsourcing,” Unicor boasts. In 1994, a contractor for gop congressional hopeful Jack Metcalf hired Washington state prisoners to call and remind voters he was pro-death penalty. Metcalf, who prevailed, said he never knew.

Federal Prison Industries, a.k.a. Unicor, says that in addition to soldiers’ uniforms, bedding, shoes, helmets, and flak vests, inmates have “produced missile cables (including those used on the Patriot missiles during the Gulf War)” and “wiring harnesses for jets and tanks.” In 1997, according to Prison Legal News, Boeing subcontractor MicroJet had prisoners cutting airplane components, paying $7 an hour for work that paid union wages of $30 on the outside.

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“set fire to whatever burns you up, to whatever eats your...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:59:32 +0300

“set fire to whatever burns you up, to whatever eats your soul”

from a Greek song

vicemag: My Week with Hungary’s Far Right Above: Members of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:56:40 +0300

vicemag:

My Week with Hungary’s Far Right

Above: Members of Magyar Nemzeti Garda, a Hungarian nationalist militia.

Hungary has one of the most highly organized far-right movements in Europe. The Jobbik party—admired by those fed up with government corruption, derided by opponents as anti-Gypsy, anti-Semite, neo-Nazi homophobes—look set to become the second biggest presence in Hungarian parliament when the elections take place in 2014. I spent a week with them trying to find out what motivates their hate.

There’s something stirring in Europe. In Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, France, Spain, and the Ukraine, support for nationalism is growing and the parties that represent nationalist interests are making tangible strides. Jobbik preaches an ideology of restoring Hungary to its former glory, which—although vague and the exact intention I’d imagine most political parties are going for—obviously becomes more attractive and believable when there are Gypsies to scapegoat. That ideology has led to their enjoying huge success at the ballots, with their uniformed nationalist militias often marching through the streets unopposed.

Last November, I watched in horror as 10,000 far-right nationalists swarmed through Warsaw. I was making a film about the rise of the far right in Poland and saw fascists in balaclavas attacking press photographers and fighting pitched battles with police. I thought these would be the worst scenes of fascism I would ever witness in Europe, but it’s clear that Hungary has bigger problems on the horizon.

On May Day in Budapest, I found myself standing in the middle of an 8,000-strong crowd of Jobbik supporters, watching nationalist rockers Karpathia play awful patriotic rock songs. The crowd was a bizarre mix of saluting neo-Nazi skinheads, elderly nationalists, and ordinary young Hungarians. I was there with Channel 4 News, and while the crew was busy shooting footage of the stalls selling whips and axes and the bouncy castles and petting zoos run by skinheads, I managed to find myself alone in the crowd as the national anthem started up.

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March Against Monsanto

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:55:48 +0300

thepeoplesrecord: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUzN9h0UXcQ

sorry, it’s only funny in Greek nafateskata: κλασσικά...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:27:54 +0300

sorry, it’s only funny in Greek

nafateskata:

κλασσικά Εξάρχεια

maxistentialist: Kurt Braunohler raised $6,000 on Kickstarter...

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:00:54 +0300

maxistentialist:

Kurt Braunohler raised $6,000 on Kickstarter to “hire a man in a plane to write stupid things in the sky.” I backed this project.

tomasoski: street art Bruges - Clet Abraham...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:18 +0300

tomasoski:

street art Bruges - Clet Abraham http://flic.kr/p/ejry5r by _Kriebel_

no words

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:01:04 +0300

no words

tomasoski: =/… #fuckyou by byjeanpaul http://bit.ly/1082KNd

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:00:39 +0300

tomasoski:

=/… #fuckyou by byjeanpaul http://bit.ly/1082KNd

tomasoski: Crossroads http://flic.kr/p/ejmB1S by Dr_Fu_Manchu

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:00:28 +0300

tomasoski:

Crossroads http://flic.kr/p/ejmB1S by Dr_Fu_Manchu

fun & games night

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:01:13 +0300

fun & games night

theories-of: Slawomir Elsner - Amanci (Lovers), 2009

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:01:28 +0300

theories-of:

Slawomir Elsner - Amanci (Lovers), 2009

malformalady: A Barbie doll is burned on a cross outside the...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:00:55 +0300

malformalady:

A Barbie doll is burned on a cross outside the Barbie Dreamhouse in Berlin. The opening of the bright pink Barbie Dreamhouse Experience was picketed by women’s groups protesting the “cliché of the female role in society.”

Photo credit: Jens Kalaene / EPA

Sommersprossenfetisch

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:28 +0300

Sommersprossenfetisch

cute

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:00:28 +0300

*cute*

viva la revoluzion

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:01:26 +0300

viva la revoluzion