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The USASO is a 501c3 non-profit organization committed to ending unjust incarceration and Modern Slavery in America and across the globe.

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I was honored to join a powerful Gettysburg College panel alongside Bruce A Bryan—who was wrongfully convicted and spent nearly 30 years incarcerated before being granted executive clemency by the New York governor—a true symbol of justice and freedom. We were also joined by Richard Allen, former Baker McKenzie Fortune 500 corporate lawyer, Jack Donson executive director of the Prison Education & Reform Alliance, Gentry Smith previous US Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security and Head of Foreign Missions. the United States Anti-Slavery Organization and our conversation confronted the reality of modern Slavery in America and around the world. Bruce’s story is not isolated—there are too many thousands of people wrongfully incarcerated, and countless others serving cruel and inhumane punishments driven by mandatory minimums and “three-strikes” habitual offender laws. In too many cases, people have faced life-altering—or even life—sentences for minor, nonviolent offenses: stealing food, a bicycle, or basic necessities, or being convicted for small amounts of marijuana. We held this panel on 4/20 to highlight a deeper contradiction—how marijuana can be legal in places like Washington, D.C., while thousands remain and continued to be egregiously incarcerated for related minor offenses, with impacts that have disproportionately affected Black and brown communities for decades. These policies have created cycles of injustice that demand urgent reform. We also addressed Slavery in the DRC, which produces nearly 80% of the global tech supply of cobalt. Hopefully more people will start to speak about these issues. by @join_usaso

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YOU HAVE THE POWER TO SPEAK FOR JUSTICE AND FREEDOM #USASO by @join_usaso

The Exploitation of Slavery through the 13th Amendment loophole since 1865 in America, must finally end.

The picture was taken around 1903 and it shows young children unjustly incarcerated and enslaved in America.
Children as young as 8,9,10 years old, and even younger.

Today in 2026 the "13th" Slavery exception continues to exist in the United States Constitution, and this Slavery exception must be addressed by the United States Congress. Freedom of Speech right?

The TRUTH is that thousands of people remain trapped serving cruel and inhumane punishments that violate the most basic human rights in American prisons.

Countless of citizens remain innocent, rotting in prison, deprived of liberty, because of corrupt prosecutions and wrongful convictions.

Reality Check: TOO MANY CRUEL INHUMANE LIFE SENTENCES IN AMERICA TODAY:

The corrupt "War on Drugs", i.e. the marijuana prohibition that has been used to oppress and incarcerate millions of American citizens, while it is legal in Washington D.C. and while Wall Street makes billions off of the legal marijuana industry.

How can this be true, while at the same time today there are people who continue to receive the most cruel life sentences for marijuana possession? Life in prison for a gram of marijuana in 2026. Yes, this is truly happening because of unconstitutional "3 Strike Habitual Mandatory Minimum" laws that continue to inflict the most inhumane cruel punishments ever.

According to the 14th Amendment, the United States Congress has a moral constitutional obligation to uphold "due process" and "equal protection of the laws" for all citizens who remain unjustly incarcerated and enslaved in prisons today.

Seriously, Freedom and Justice must be served, because at what point does enough become enough?
Only the American Congress has the power to create change. All members of Congress must realize their power and speak for Justice and Freedom.

At what point does the citizen in the United States of America decide that it is time to end Slavery for real?
The USASO continues its hard work to end modern Slavery, in honor of all who have been harmed and continue to suffer from American Slavery. by @join_usaso

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate – we can not hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."

President Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg, November 19th 1863 by @join_usaso

Everyone should speak up for justice and freedom. by @join_usaso

The Exploitation of Slavery through the 13th Amendment loophole since 1865 must finally end. #13thAmendment #Slavery #America #Justice by @join_usaso

Can you imagine serving life in prison or decades for marijuana possession? Can you imagine serving that sentence when it is legal in Washington DC and while businesses make billions at the same time? Well that is the reality today for thousands of American citizens who remain wrongfully incarcerated and Enslaved in prison becuase of the corrupt fraudulent unconstitutional "War on Drugs" and because of "Mandatory Minimums" that blatantly inflict cruel and inhumane punishments. Call centers, fast food chains, big tech, there are thousands of corporations that profit off of unjust incarceration and 13th Slavery in America. People in America must begin to talk about these issues, so that Congress can serve Justice and Freedom and uphold "due process" and "equal protection of the laws."

#13thslaveryamerica #slaveryexception #EndTheException #WarOnDrugs #Constitution #MandatoryMinimums #HumanRights #unjustincarceration #marijuana #8thAmendment #cruelandunusualpunishment #usaso #dueprocess #equalprotectionofthelaws by @join_usaso

Slavery did not end in history books — it continues in the Democratic Republic of Congo today, in addition to Slavery in American Prisons.

African child Slaves as young as 6 years old are forced into mines, digging cobalt and rare minerals used in our phones, laptops, electric cars, and global technology supply chains.

They work in toxic tunnels with no safety equipment, no rights, and no freedom — while billion-dollar corporations profit.

This is not “economic development.”
This is Modern Slavery.
And silence is complicity.

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🖤 #EndSlaveryInCongo #HumanRightsMatter #AbolishSlaveryEverywhere #13thSlaveryAmerica by @join_usaso

Freedom and Justice will be served when the American Congress decides to take action to uphold due process and equal protection of the laws for every single person who remains unjustly incarcerated and enslaved in prisons because of the "War On Drugs" and because of cruel and inhumane "Mandatory Minimums" that blatantly violate human rights.

The Exploitation of Slavery through the 13th Amendment loophole since 1865 must finally end. It is definitely time to stop arresting and enslaving people for marijuana possession. You can possess and grow marijuana in Washington DC, so therefore citizens should not have to die in prison for it anymore. Seriously.

The USASO is an opportunity for people with political differences to be able to unite on a clear common cause for the greater good. Because ending unjust incarceration and Slavery in America, is about right vs wrong and good vs bad. Every single person, including you, has a powerful mind and voice for change in this movement. How will you decide to help your neighbor?

#Freedom #Justice #America #Slavery by @join_usaso

🚨4100+ Corporations profit from unjust incarceration. 💰 The Exploitation of Slavery through the 13th Amendment loophole since 1865 must finally end. #EndTheException #Freedom #Justice #WallStreet #Slavery #America by @join_usaso