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Fwd: The Abolition Amendment is here!
From: Charlie Sullivan (cure@curenational.org)
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Dear friends, yesterday, Dec. 2 2020, was an historic day in the prison reform movement!!! Charlie
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News release...
United States Congress
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 2, 2020
Merkeley, Clay Propose Constintuional Amendmend to Close Slavery Loophole in 13th Amendment
Indisputably racist exception permitting slavery as punishment for crime has fueled systemic racism in criminal justice for 150 years
Today 900,000 individuals in the U.S. still forced to work for others' profit
WASHIONGTON, D.C. -- Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Representative William Lacy Clay (D-MO-1) today introduced the "Abolition Amendment," which would strike the 'Punishment Clause' of the 13th Amendment in order to fnially abolish slavery in the United States.
The 13th Amendment abolished most--but not all--slavery, permitting slavery or involuntary servitude "as a punishment for crime." The "Abolition Amendment" would finally finish the job started by the Civil Wwar, Emancipation Proclamation, and 13th Amendment and end the morally reprehensible practice of slavery and forced labor in American, and send a clear message: in this country, no person will be stripped of their basic humanity and forced to toil for someone else's profit.
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