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California is, once again, on fire.
From north to south, wildfires are raging and causing even
more unprecedented death and destruction. And it's
getting worse every year, due to Trump administration policies
that continue to let climate change spiral out of control. But
since California doesn't have enough salaried, professional
firefighters to combat these disasters, the state is turning to
prisons. Locked up, shackled, with their
rights and freedoms stripped away, incarcerated people — who
are disproportionately Black and Brown — have little control
over their lives, and the state is fully exploiting this fact.
To make up for the
shortage in firefighters, prisons are compelling inmates to go
out and battle the flames — paying them as little as $2 a
day to put their lives on the line, while
denying them the opportunity to become professional
firefighters upon release. But because prisons have been the
sites of some of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the
country, due to cramped conditions and insufficient masks and
hand sanitizer, many incarcerated people are simply too sick
to help. The answer to this problem is not to shove
more prisoners into the flames — it's to fight climate change
and stop these fires once and for all. Please sign the petition demanding that the
federal U.S. government take action against climate change and
send federal aid now!
Thank you for all that you do,
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Miranda
B.
The Care2 Petitions Team |
P.S. Fires are
swallowing up huge swaths of California right now, and the
state thinks the answer is to force inmates to the front
lines. Tell authorities to fight climate change now and
stop exploiting prison labor! |
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