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

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...

Free Europe.

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

"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.

“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.

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

“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 hammerandhope.org/article/food...

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

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.

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.”

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’ open.spotify.com/episode/3Zd6...

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:

Beyond barking… On-The-Ground Orgs, Organizers, Activists, Strategists, and Street Journalists — on the frontlines of intersectional movements

This is what they're doing to Dr. Badar Khan Suri. This is not my America, and the world is aghast.

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...

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

Abolitionists and Justice Warriors by yours truly

Why Canada isn't having the same bird flu/egg price crisis as US: Avg size of Canada's egg farms ~ 23,000 hens Avg size of American egg farms ~ 50,000 to 6 million hens Canadian supply management = more livelihoods, keeps prices stable, and is safer. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

“The shift from forced labor… laid the groundwork for the contemporary reliance on incarcerated people to fill labor shortages, not just in prisons but in industries like agriculture” 7 in 10 US farmworkers are foreign born; 40+% are undocumented The Trump deportations will be BIG for prison labor

It’s all out class war being waged by the wealthy on the poor.

I'm working on a couple of upcoming talks and can't get over how simply describing what is happening right now with attacks on the NSF, NIH, Diversity, etc. makes me sound like a raving lunatic. They've launched an all-out assault on empirical reality.

What’s going to happen in agriculture if lots of farmworkers are deported? Will prisoners become a reserve army of labor forced to prop up the system?

Some much needed good news: anti-prison activists bought up land that was sited for a proposed federal prison in Kentucky. Huge win for the No New Letcher Prison campaign! www.lpm.org/investigate/...

I don’t know if it’s Trump getting another stint in the WH or the semester starting but welcome to all the new followers. We’re in for more revanchist politics with profound implications on the fight for food justice. We’ll need robust intersectional movements to, at a minimum, hold the line.

In an article about how climate change is contributing to the intensity and frequency of disasters like wildfire the NYT still sneaks in a hedge. The obfuscation of the direct role of climate change only perpetuates public confusion and supports the fossil fuel industry.

Grades submitted! Off for a much needed break. Best of luck to everyone finishing up the term.

We are headed for a time when food system topics are going to be more visible than in recent years. From impact of tariffs on ag products & mass deportation’s effect on food chain work to possible confrontations with junk food makers and deregulation’s effect on climate, there’s lots to address.

Thought I'd have a go at this starter pack thing...pls share and let me know if you'd like to join! go.bsky.app/3vj4Fnb

Watching the videos of Syrian prisoners liberated, I’m reminded of the videos of Lebanese prisoners being freed from Khiam after Israel left Lebanon, and I hope for the day we see Palestinian prisoners walking out of Sde Teiman, Ketziot, Ofer, Gilboa, Damon, Megiddo, Petah Tikva.

Georgia: The Firework Protests crimethinc.com/Georgia2024 After six consecutive nights of clashes between police and protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, anarchists in Tbilisi report from the front lines, exploring the causes of the unrest and documenting it in a series of videos. 🧵⬇️

Welcome to all the new followers. And thanks! It’s great to transition to Bluesky. A little about me: I’m a sociologist who studies food and the environment at a variety of intersections, including social movements, political economy, race, prisons, & cities. I currently run prisonagriculture.com

Let's make this a thing! Folks researching the political economy of food and agriculture. Let me know if you should be added to this list! go.bsky.app/GykU1LD

For new people, this is a great way to find environmental social scientists: go.bsky.app/GNpJZBo

Getting a new starter pack on environmental sociology going. Please reach out or comment below and I’ll get you added. go.bsky.app/ShvPW4g

Not sure how these starter packs come to be but here you go food studies friends. go.bsky.app/Evp1Stc

DuBois is well known for his work on race, class, urban and rural life and more. But he also had things to say about the environment. Here is one talk he gave about the Housatonic River in his typical reflective poetic style. theberkshireedge.com/w-e-b-du-boi...

The mass exodus of academic Twitter is happening, huh?

Abolition Methodologies is here! In the spirit of boundary breaking in the academy and bridging across all sorts of abolitionist work, Carrie Chennault and I offer this article to the discussion of how we do abolition. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... DM for full text or check out Research Gate

Check out this interview with Lawrence Jenkins, an incarcerated farmer, educator, artist, and activist in Washington state. This is part of a series on food and abolition in Mold Magazine. thisismold.com/abolition/fa...

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