The Interfaith Justice League and the Palm Beach County Environmental
Coalition is holding a candidate forum on the Ag Reserve and other environmental
issues for all candidates for the County Commission on Thursday August 25, at
7:00 p.m. at Congregation L'Dor Va-Dor, 3475 Woolbright Road, Boynton Beach,
Florida on the northeast corner of Woolbright and Military Trail next to
Enterprise Leasing.
The format will be as follows: Each candidate will make an opening
statement and then a follow up statement after all the candidates have spoken to
respond to the others. We will then take questions and comments from the
audience and we will conclude with each candidate making a closing
statement.
Sept 9th is the 45th anniversary of the Attica Uprising in New York,
where national attention was drawn to the problem of prisons in this
country. This year there will public demonstrations in support of
prisoners who have a called for a coordinated national work strike in
response to extreme abuses they face, including toxic environments,
discrimination and literal slavery based on the 13th Amendment which
wrote prison slave labor into the U.S. Constitution.
We are spreading the word to our prisoner contacts to invite friends
and family on the outside to participate in these necessary efforts to
address the violations of civil rights and environmental justice that
still occur behind bars.
FCC Coleman, which warehouses over 7,000 prisoners, surrounded by mining operations.
This location is the largest prison factory in the entire country,
producing material goods for government agencies nationwide. Much of the
very furniture which accommodates the offices of the bureaucrats that
we live under is made by prison slaves at this facility.
Federal Prison Industries, also known as UNICOR, has over $34 million
in contract obligation coming out of Bureau of Prison (BOP) facilities
in Florida. This is three times higher than any other state in the country.
