Learning that the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, worse than all AES countries, was the first crack in my liberal programming. It has 1/8 th of all prisoners in the world. Just. Fuck.
This is why one of the first books I always recommend to new leftists is Blood In My Eye. The US prison system is one of seral focal points for revolutionary organizing. Almost everyone knows someone who went to prison.
Learning that the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, worse than all AES countries, was the first crack in my liberal programming. It has 1/8 th of all prisoners in the world. Just. Fuck.
This is why one of the first books I always recommend to new leftists is Blood In My Eye. The US prison system is one of seral focal points for revolutionary organizing. Almost everyone knows someone who went to prison.