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Supposedly the following letter was drafted jointly by prisoners inside and "allies" outside.

' would like to see unions (including PSAC with its CSC employed members) sign onto this.
(If by chance you know of cool unions that support workers and excluded from workforce people outside of their workforce feel free to get in the replies (#IWW and especially #IWWIWC you're cool 👍).)

Letter:

Freeze the CSC "Room & Board" Deductions Taken From Prisoners in Federal Prisons, and Provide Better Wages for Work and Working Conditions!

People who serve time in Canadian federal prisons are forced to work for less than $6.90 per day. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) froze a 22% deduction that is taken from prisoners for "room & board". This deduction was introduced as part of a series of Harper prison reforms in 2013 that made already exploitative working conditions even worse. We are calling on CSC to freeze the room and board deductions taken from prisoners every pay cycle, and to provide fair wages, safe working conditions, and proper accreditation and training for work done inside prisons.

Background Information

The work that prisoners do is not considered to be work by the CSC, the Federal government, or the Canadian legal system. Instead, this work is considered to be a program that is part of a person's rehabilitation and outlined in a prisoner's correctional plan. We think this is bullshit, work is work.

Prisoners work in two different areas of the prison. The first area is in the upkeep and functioning of the prison. This includes general maintenance, cleaning, and cooking. The second area is CORCAN, which is a "special operating agency" of CSC that produces office furniture and textiles, and conducts other services like printing and laundry for government ministries and departments such as the prison and military.

The work that prisoners do is excluded from employment standards, labour laws, as well as health and safety laws.

None of the work that prisoners do provides the required training, teaches the necessary skills, or awards accreditation in ways that would increase someone's chances of being hired upon one's eventual release.

The total pay that prisoners receive for their work depends on a grading system that is used as both incentive and punishment. Prisoners who are at the Grade A level, receive $6.90 per day and those who are at the lowest Grade F level, receive $1.00 a day. People who aren't able to work because they are sick, receive $2.50 per day (Grade E). At the end of every ten day period several deductions are made on the total including 22% for "room and board," 8% for phone use and maintenance of the inmate telephone system, and $11 dollars for cable subscription The average minimum wage in Canada is currently $15.50. According to Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) reports, the average pay for prisoners working full time is around 30 cents per hour.

Having money to spend on basic goods and services is necessary to survival inside. In addition to having to pay for phone calls to keep in touch with loved ones on the outside, many prisoners report inadequate food options through the cafeteria and rely on canteen items to supplement their diet. Prisoners also pay for their own toiletries, clothes, over-the-counter medication, and stationary. What little money prisoners have also goes to paying for food for family trailer visits, helping family pay for gas to come visit, and supporting family members on the outside.

In 2013, the Harper government passed a series of prison reforms that included a 30% deduction in wages and the elimination of incentive pay for CORCAN work. These changes ignored the fact the room and board deductions were accounted for when the pay scales were implanted in 1981, and that prisoner wages had remained stagnant since then. Prisoners responded with strikes and legal challenges to these changes.

In the context of COVID-19 isolation measures in Spring 2020, the CSC froze the room and board deductions. Given that most prisoners were locked down almost 24 hours a day 7 days a week for two years, it was the very least they could do.

Nearly 3 years later, the CSC threatens to re-implement the room and board deductions in a context where rising prices of consumer goods and inflation are hitting prisoners hard.

We Are Calling on CSC to:

Permanently freeze the room and board deductions taken from prisoners every pay cycle

Provide fair wages, safe working conditions, and proper accreditation and training for the work done inside prisons

For more information, see Jordan House and Asaf Rashid's "Solidarity Beyond Bars: Unionizing Prison Labour," Sarah Fortin's "Pay in Canadian Prisons 1980-2016," Jordan House's "Making Prison Work: Prison Labour and Resistance in Canada," Shanisse Kleusken's "Legitimating the "Fiasco": Canadian State justifications of CORCAN Prison Labour," Guerin v Canada 2018 FC, and The Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) Reports.

-End letter-

This account will endeavour to write some more on this later.

“#Poverty and #homelessness are treated like complex ‘wicked’ problems by decision-makers, but at their core, they’re remarkably simple.

“Resources are unevenly distributed and economic inequality is fundamental to the system our society is built around. As radical as it may seem to think about meaningfully addressing this, it also feels unfathomable that we should allow people to sleep in bushes, sit in the rain, and shuttle from shopping centre to park bench, living just to survive, while others flourish.”
#Canberra #Auspol #Melbourne #RaiseTheRate

From: @luciedigitalni
https://aus.social/@luciedigitalni/110308444878721867

It turns out you can simply serve a file from a domain to use it as your bsky handle.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3.

When you post on Twitter(1) or Bluesky(2) you grant them a broad perpetual license to use, modify, and sublicense your content. You effectively make them co-owners of your content. They can mine it and monetize it. They can even sell it. When you post on Mastodon(3) most instances take no license at all. That's right, they tell you what they are doing with your content—storing posts and delivering them—but no license.

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#twittermigration #TermsOf Service #Privacy Policy #ContentLicense

There is no mechanism for refugees from the civil war in Sudan to seek asylum in the UK either via the UNHCR or UK state.

This effects those trapped in Sudan, in transit and in the UK.

It is a racist policy which both the Nationalist Conservatives and Neo-Liberals agree upon.

#humourdemmrde #paris2024 #pasderetraitpasdejo #humourdegauloisrefractaire

Google has just updated its 2FA Authenticator app and added a much-needed feature: the ability to sync secrets across devices.

TL;DR: Don't turn it on.

The new update allows users to sign in with their Google Account and sync 2FA secrets across their iOS and Android devices.

We analyzed the network traffic when the app syncs the secrets, and it turns out the traffic is not end-to-end encrypted. As shown in the screenshots, this means that Google can see the secrets, likely even while they’re stored on their servers. There is no option to add a passphrase to protect the secrets, to make them accessible only by the user.

Why is this bad?

Every 2FA QR code contains a secret, or a seed, that’s used to generate the one-time codes. If someone else knows the secret, they can generate the same one-time codes and defeat 2FA protections. So, if there’s ever a data breach or if someone obtains access ....

#Privacy #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #2FA #Google #Security

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