"In last November’s election, a majority of #California voters declined to outlaw forced labour among incarcerated people, who make up around 30 per cent of California’s firefighters and are paid between $5.80 and $10.24 per day. At least eight hundred of them are now up against #LA’s infernos. What the state will not pay to provide it will extract through coercion." - Anahid Nersessian

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/january/under-the-santa-anas
#CaliforniaFires #LAfires #CaliforniaWildfires #LAwildfires #LosAngeles