Complicity in Neoslavery: Chris Hedges Calls Out Corporate America for Exploiting Prison Labor | Democracy Now!

Complicity in Neoslavery: Chris Hedges Calls Out Corporate America for Exploiting Prison Labor | Democracy Now!

Complicity in Neoslavery: Chris Hedges Calls Out Corporate America for Exploiting Prison Labor

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, activist and Presbyterian minister
Chris Hedges, whose latest book is "Empire of Illusion: The End of
Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle," spoke Saturday at New York’s
"Rise Up October" rally and march to end police violence. In his
address, Hedges spoke about the effects that police violence and mass
incarceration has on families. "There are husbands and wives severed,
sometimes forever, from their spouses," said Hedges. "There are sisters
and brothers that have been torn apart, but this morning we remember
most the children, those whose mothers and fathers are locked behind
bars or whose parents will never come home again, whose tiny lives have
been shattered, whose childhoods have been stolen, who endure the
painful stigma of loss or of having a mother or father in prison and
cannot comprehend the cruelty of this world."