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Speaker 1: My friends, there's a nationwide strike going on right now

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Speaker 1: that you probably have not heard about because it's happening

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Speaker 1: behind bars in jails and prisons all across the fruited plane.

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Speaker 1: Inmates are protesting what they call the prison industrial slave complex,

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Speaker 1: put together by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee and jail

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Speaker 1: house Lawyers Speak. The strike started on Tuesday, August twenty two.

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Speaker 1: It goes till September nine, which is the anniversary of

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Speaker 1: the nineteen seventy one Attica, New York prison riot. Now,

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Speaker 1: the striking inmates had a lot of demands. They demand

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Speaker 1: to be paid the prevailing state wage for any work

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Speaker 1: they do. They demand pell grant money for college and

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Speaker 1: access to rehab services. They want an end to life

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Speaker 1: sentences and to sentences without the possibility of parole. They

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Speaker 1: demand never to be denied parole because the victim of

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Speaker 1: the crime, the crime they committed, was white. And of

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Speaker 1: course they demand that they retained their Democrat party voting right,

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Speaker 1: I mean voting rights. I shouldn't have said democratic part,

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Speaker 1: even though it's true. Obviously these striking inmates want to

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Speaker 1: make the prison experience great again, so why shouldn't they

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Speaker 1: have it all folks. I mean, they're being discriminated against

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Speaker 1: many minorities. America sucks. It all fits h