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Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Communists like my uncle were sent to prison because they fought for democracy January 15, 2021 12:39 PM CDT By Roberta Wood LeRoy Wood, left, being led away by federal agents after his Smith Act conviction for conspiring to teach or advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government...

Santa’s Workshop: Disney does Christmas Not yet in the holiday spirit? Here’s a trio of yuletide-themed cartoons from the 1930s certain to provide a much-needed Christmas goose. Santa’s Workshop (1932) In my teens, my friend Timothy Murphy asked me, “You know what my Uncle Roy says Jews do on Christmas Day?” There’s nothing like hate for the holidays. No, my ruddy-faced, only goyish kid on an all-Jewish block, I thought. What does your sozzled Uncle Roy say the Jews do on Christm...

Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Many states have quarantine requirements for visitors, but only one really enforces them: Hawaii. Olga Khazan , If you flew into Honolulu International Airport anytime after the start of the pandemic, you would have had a different experience from most Americans who have traveled elsewhere this year. In the days following your arrival, you would not be w...

Not a white supremacist, are you? i wrote her back, no, im not a white supremacist, sweetheart. im proud of who i am, but im not better than nobody, you know? poor thing. made me feel bad. come on, sweetie, im not a hard man. im just not. you know? >> slagle hasnt seen his daughter in eight years. but after learning of his new release date, he was permitted to call her. >> what are you doing, rayven? >> hey. >> i just found out theyre going to let me out april 23rd. >> oh, i cant wait. >> are yo...

I know, shes beautiful. my goodness, man. do i like old? >> no. >> yes, i do. >> yre a grandpa. >> i know, i know. i wanted to see emily too. >> thats your incentive. you get to see her when you get out. >> it is, i swear. oh, man. >> you wont believe how pretty she is. >> shes got good genetics. yeah. first time i hold her, i dont want it to be in a prison. honestly. the first time i held you was in a prison. i was like, how sad is that? thats sad, rayven, honestly. >> it is. >> it is, it is. t...

Uncle roy, man? you never met him until he got out. >> hes okay. hes different. >> yeah, like what? tell me. >> just -- i dont know. >> shoot straight with me now. >> you can tell that hes been in prison for a while. >> i know. thats true. when you talk to me, do i come off like that? >> kind of, but no, not really. sometimes. >> why? >> youre like, whats up, what are you doing? talking to me like im your homey. >> oh, honey, i love you. i know youre not my homey. dog gone, now you make me feel ...

Fine face. i wish i knew him. i love big, tall and muscular men. im 40 years old, so ill be honest with you, im a little flattered by it, because i aint no 20-year-old dude no more. im 40 years old, man. and to have a lot of girls and women making comments about how i look and stuff like that, its nice. >> but roys parole serves as a constant reminder that a return to prison is just one mistake away. >> about five, six times a day, this beeper beeps off and i got to call. if this beeper goes off...

>> man, this is my last day in prison and im so tired. i havent hardly slept in three days. im really that tired to where i feel nauseous. im really, really nervous. im afraid im not going to make it, you know what i mean? i see these guys coming in and out, in and out, in and out. and its time for you to get out and you start thinking, oh, man. and even my own twin brother couldnt handle the pressure. its terrible. you write country songs about this kind of [ bleep ]. the things that hurt me th...

Thats good. cooking is my hobby. on the streets, i love to cook. i like to make people happy. ill make something at work and ill go to the job site and give it to him, hey, bro, try this. thats what i like to do. >> by purchasing food from the canteen and occasionally hustling vegetables or meat from kitchen workers, ray slagle gets to practice his hobby right in his cell. but the only time he shed a tear from something other than onions is when he and his twin brother, roy, were briefly in the ...

Yeah, i dont like to see my brother get hurt. >> but the prison says extraction teams are only called when inmates do not cooperate with staff. a practice roy gave up when the prison began using oc gas. or pepper spray. >> that stuff is really powerful. that will make anyone tap out. i would rather have my ass kicked than get hit with that. its really bad. you cant breathe and it burns like fire. this is really bad stuff. >> and jonathan hall has just gotten his second dose of it in two days. th...