In Washington, inmates earn between 30¢ and $2.70 per hour. Commissary items are priced at market rate.
This means that someone earning the minimum prison wage needs to work full day to afford a $1.80 pack of noodles - the equivalent of $132 if you make the state minimum wage.
if any normal person drove 74 mph and killed a pedestrian, they would go to jail. But a cop killed Jaahnavi Kandula and cops gets to kill with impunity.
As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza grows more dire, and as reports of atrocities committed there are published daily, the US refuses to consider the possibility of suspending military aid to Israel.
I want to talk about a time the US stopped supplying arms to a genocidal ally:
Let's not let that happen again, I would like to see the US government do the right thing this time around. If the Biden administration really wanted to, they could force Israel into a ceasefire tomorrow. Unfortunately, that seems to be completely out of the question.
Ben Ehrenreich's book, The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine, was one of the first that opened my eyes to Israeli apartheid. If you have not read it, I highly recommend it. As you read it think about this thread, and what's happening in the West Bank now.
I just learned that Eid al-Hathalin was arrested by Israeli soldiers today after a violent raid on the village of Umm al-Kheir. Basically all the protagonists of the book I wrote about nonviolent resistance in the West Bank have been arrested since October. 1/
NEWS: on 12 February 2024, South Africa submitted an “urgent request for additional measures under Article 75 (1)” of the Rules of Court in connection with the “developing circumstances in Rafah” in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel before the #ICJ https://t.co/PttnjpfA9t
To put that in context, 110 hostages were released from Gaza as a result of negotiations.
So far, diplomacy has succeeded where a genocidal military campaign has failed. #CeasefireNOW
Last night, Israel's army rescued two hostages.
After 230 days of a military campaign so brutal it has left 80% of Gazans without any home to return to, two Israelis were able to return home.