*[Enwl-eng] Fires are consuming California while COVID is consuming inmate firefighters

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            Climate change is burning California. In response, California is choosing to burn its inmates. 
                     
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                 California is, once again, on fire. From north to south, wildfires are raging and causing even more unprecedented death and destruction. And it's getting worse every year, due to Trump administration policies that continue to let climate change spiral out of control. But since California doesn't have enough salaried, professional firefighters to combat these disasters, the state is turning to prisons. Locked up, shackled, with their rights and freedoms stripped away, incarcerated people — who are disproportionately Black and Brown — have little control over their lives, and the state is fully exploiting this fact. 

                  To make up for the shortage in firefighters, prisons are compelling inmates to go out and battle the flames — paying them as little as $2 a day to put their lives on the line, while denying them the opportunity to become professional firefighters upon release. But because prisons have been the sites of some of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the country, due to cramped conditions and insufficient masks and hand sanitizer, many incarcerated people are simply too sick to help. The answer to this problem is not to shove more prisoners into the flames — it's to fight climate change and stop these fires once and for all. Please sign the petition demanding that the federal U.S. government take action against climate change and send federal aid now! 

                  Thank you for all that you do, 

                         Miranda B.
                        The Care2 Petitions Team 
                       
                           

                  P.S. Fires are swallowing up huge swaths of California right now, and the state thinks the answer is to force inmates to the front lines. Tell authorities to fight climate change now and stop exploiting prison labor! 
                  
                    
           
     





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From: Miranda B., Care2 Action Alerts 
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 11:18 AM
Subject: Fires are consuming California while COVID is consuming inmate firefighters







 
  
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