Josh Sbicca

Environmental Burdens Case Studies Working in agricultural operations inside prison comes with a range of health risks. Based on publicly available sources, such as government reports, media coverage, and investigations by advocacy …

Working in agricultural operations inside prison comes with a range of health risks. Across the country, prisoners are subject to extreme heat, air pollution, pesticide exposure, and toxic waste. Check out these case study reports from the Prison Agriculture Lab.

Hitler and Mussolini were also obsessed with classical architecture and style.

there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts

The Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World” – Spectre Journal Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the "feed-the-world" approaches to feed security.

Such trenchant analysis of the myth of feeding the world is needed now more than ever.

RAGE THRAD: Our colleague, CSUCI prof. Jonathan Anthony Caravello, has been kidnapped! This vile framing @ktla.com is grotesque - He did not "throw a tear gas cannister" at police, he removed it from under someone in a wheelchair! ktla.com/news/local-n...

🔥"Libertem a Europa!"🔥Seun Kuti pede para jovens libertarem do fascismo da extrema direita🔥 YouTube video by Mídia NINJA

Free Europe.

Is U.S. Prison Labor Slavery Today, nearly two million people are confined in various correctional facilities across the country, with about 800,000 engaged in prison labor, most of it compulsory.

Lots to consider on this question, both morally and legally. Thanks, @rebeccaflynn712.bsky.social

The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense Residents of L.A. aren’t merely protesting ICE; they’re attempting to protect their communities from ICE’s raids.

"What we are witnessing in Los Angeles is not only a protest; it is self-defense." Fuck yeah, @melissagiragrant.com. Read and share this. newrepublic.com/article/1963...

“If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says @joshsbicca.bsky.social, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of that violence lives on in the big business of “agricarceral” farming today.

‘Prisons are akin to chattel slavery’: Inside the big business of prison farms and ‘agricarceral’ slave labor “If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of ...

“If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says @joshsbicca.bsky.social, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of that violence lives on in the big business of “agricarceral” farming today.

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Excellent new special issue in Canadian Food Studies, Exploring Carceral Food Systems

The Struggle for Food Sovereignty While Incarcerated Prison food has become a tool of carceral control.

“Feeding yourself is protection, but it’s also declaring sovereignty. And in a prison geography, declaring sovereignty is declaring war.”

Nylah Iqbal Muhammad on the struggle for food sovereignty while incarcerated in the latest @hammerandhope.bsky.social

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The sixth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. It’s morning again in America. Federal agents snatch students off the streets. The White House boasts of banishing hundreds of people to a Salvadoran prison. Head Start and domestic violence shelters await the chopping block. hammerandhope.org

This is a gross misinterpretation of NIH’s systematic review. Sheesh.

Do not obey in advance: Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

How is the top University in the Bluest state in the US reacting to Trump’s attacks on Academic Freedom in the form of the “Anti-DEI order? The answer is: NOT good. A thread 🧵 about how the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa is responding to these attacks.

RFK Jr. Declares ‘Sugar Is Poison’ in Campaign Against Food Industry: Trump Live Updates

Neoliberal ideology in the MAHA movement is alive and well.

FDA Commissioner Dr. Makary - “I believe in love, and let’s start in a friendly way and see if we can do this without any statutory or regulatory changes.”

No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement Lessons from the Movement

Hi! Some news––our book on the Stop Cop City movement is coming out in ONE MONTH!! It features organizers, political prisoners, abolitionists, anarchists, neighbors, educators, students, media, art & more.

It’d mean the world to me if you share/pre-order! bookshop.org/p/books/no-c...

How do lies and white supremacists run our prisons?…

🎙️ Dissecting the Intersections of White Supremacy and Mass Incarceration

A can’t miss episode of Law & Disorder with Brittany Friedman (@curlyprofessor.bsky.social), author of ‘Carceral Apartheid’

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Could People in ICE Detention Centers Be Forced to Work in Slaughterhouses? The precedent in prisons exists.

As detention numbers creep upward, some advocates worry that detainees could be compelled to work to fill gaps in the workforce of some of the most dangerous jobs in the country, including on factory farms and in slaughterhouses. @gracehussain.bsky.social reports:

This is what they're doing to Dr. Badar Khan Suri.

This is not my America, and the world is aghast.

As Trump Stands Firm on Tariffs, USDA Signals Possible Relief for Farmers During Iowa visit, Secretary Brooke Rollins suggested that the administration would consider financial relief for farmers.

The disconnect between Trump's social media posts about tarrifs and USDA Secretary Rollins' assurances to farmers while on a trip to Iowa sure is something. Reporting by @ninaelkadi.com here: sentientmedia.org/usda-signals...

This is exactly the problem. Last time Trump bailed out farmers after China retaliated on ag products after Trump imposed tariffs. Will he bail out farmers again? If so, this is the kind of backscratching deal that keeps farmers hooked on GOP. Nevermind the whole system is built on overproduction.

CSU has been working on identifying where and to what degree CC is integrated in the curriculum across campus. It turns out that every college teaches courses directly about CC and have sections of many other classes that address the topic. CC is directly relevant to all science education in 2025.

Wow. My work was stolen as well. I’ve always been for open access, but training AI for profit is a totally different situation.

How Trump’s Proposed Tariffs Could Raise Food Costs Get ready to pay more for avocados, coffee, and other groceries.

Remember when we heard that “the left” was coming for your hamburger? We’re being gaslit. www.eater.com/24349457/tru...