Ep. 503 - California town evacuates but plans to leave incarcerated people behind

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Wildfires are raging in California right now and one town, Susanville, which only exists because of the two prisons that support the local economy, is now in the direct line of the fire. As people begin making plans to leave, local officials are demanding that they make everybody that's locked up stay behind and suffer.

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0:35.0	you might not be aware right now that some of the worst wildfires in the history of the state.
0:42.0	One article I just read said in the history of the world
0:47.0	are currently underway in California.
0:50.0	And I want to tell you how these wildfires right now,
0:54.0	I mean, I'm this very moment,
0:58.0	strangely, painfully intersect with mass incarceration and environmental racism.
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