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TIL about the 2018 US Prison Strike, an attempt by prisoners to end US Prison Slavery (en.wikipedia.org)
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Strike participants, their families, and advocacy groups reported that the leaders and organizers of the strike were punished with solitary confinement, loss of communication privileges, and prison transfers.[4][5][6]

Solitary Confinement

Critics of solitary confinement regard the practice as a form of psychological torture with measurable physiological effects, particularly when the period of confinement is longer than a few weeks or is continued indefinitely.[92][93][94][75]

The United Nations Committee Against Torture cited use of solitary confinement in the United States as excessive and a violation of the Convention Against Torture in 2014.[95]

It followed the little-reported 2016 US Prison Strike

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[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

the lack of people at protests across the country, excluding the protests that are bankrolled by the billionaires like nokings; is evidence that we're too socially atomized to make this a reality for now; but hopefully not so in the future.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not friends with some old coworkers in large part because they just don't go to protests or do anything. They're comfortable just staying home and playing video games. Extremely basic bros.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

That was one of the contributing factors to my career switch as well; software engineers tend to be reactionary (anecdotally) and the only time you can get a response out of them is if they think the status quo is imperiled somehow.

[-] Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Is it 3% of the population in the streets that lead to change?

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 weeks ago

I've heard similar numbers tossed around. I'm not sure how consistently people need to be showing up for change to happen. It seems a lot of what we're seeing now is brief protests, and then back to business as usual (pun intended)

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