May 20, 2013
By Bob Sloan This has been a busy week for us here at VLTP. To catch our readership and visitors up with news involving ALEC and their cabal, we’re publishing a larger segment today. Click on the headline link(s) to read the full article or document from the original source. First a development involving the [...]
May 20, 2013
FROM CMD by Beau Hodai - Special Report by Center for Media and Democracy and DBA Press This just released report is a must read for all Americans to understand just how much our Nation’s governmental landscape has been changed since 9/11/2001. Once again, government agencies created to “protect” Americans have been altered to instead [...]
Apr 2, 2013
By Bob Sloan Like the military/industrial complex, the criminal justice industrial complex is an interweaving of private business and government interests. Its twofold purpose is profit and social control. Its public rationale is the fight against crime. To accomplish the goals the public must be made to fear their neighbors, fellow employees…to walk in a [...]
Mar 29, 2013
For the public, the entire Keystone XL (KXL) streamliner is washing down easier with a confidential Big Gulp of Koch. “The too-billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, usually get what they want, but never what they deserve.” — Gaea People who breathe the atmosphere, drink water, eat food, are hostages of an increasingly haywire, engineered [...]
Mar 26, 2013
By Bob Sloan On Tuesday March 19th, the Nevada Board of Prison Commissioners (BPC) met in Carson City to discuss an assortment of prison related issues. Members of the BPC are: Governor Brian Sandoval, Attorney General, Catherine Cortez-Masto and Secretary of State, Ross Miller. Issues of: (a) realignment of state Parole and Probation responsibilities with [...]
Mar 13, 2013
By Justin Rohrlich Mar 12, 2013 1:21 pm From Minyanville… “The good news for the jobless? US industry is now in the throes of a “reshoring” trend… “The bad news? The Bureau of Prisons is angling to have as many reshored jobs as possible filled by federal prisoners.” Journalist Justin Rohrlich and VLTP Executive Director, Bob Sloan [...]
Mar 9, 2013
We have been posting about an investigation into prison labor violations in Nevada. Three posts by VLTP Executive Director Bob Sloan, which you can access here, here, and here. After exposing this to the entire Nevada State Legislature, Governor Sandoval (R), AG Masto (D), and Union leaders, and aided by an interview on the Dana Gentry [...]
Jan 27, 2013
A VLTP Special Report by Bob Sloan, Executive Director LABOR UNIONS AND GROUPS – PULL THE WOOL FROM OVER YOUR EYES AND GET ACTIVELY INVOLVED NOW – BEFORE ITS TOO LATE! Over the past two weeks VLTP published the first, second and final segments of an expose reporting on the use of prison labor in Nevada to deny jobs to local [...]
Jan 25, 2013
Today Nevada Workers Lose Jobs to Inmates – Next it Could be your Turn Third and final segment of the series on Nevada’s situation involving unfair competition by use of prisoner labor by Bob Sloan, Executive Director, VLTP.net “Insourcing”..: there is no current definition for this word in our Urban Dictionary or Websters. I plan to [...]
Jan 7, 2013
In December 2010 I wrote the following article on prison labor and those involved in removing jobs from the private/public sectors and putting them in the hands of inmates. Now that I look back even I am sitting here shaking my head at the names, companies, legislators and laws involved in this huge profitable enterprise. [...]
