Monday, May 3, 2010
Cleanup, Aisle Three
Posted by Alejandro de los Rios on Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:23 PM
I just had to share this photo I took after mostly everyone had cleared out on Jazz Fest this past Saturday. The ground was covered in empty beer cans, plastic bags and cardboard as far as they eye could see. The first thought that comes to mind is "Holy shit, what a mess!" and then you see the cleanup crew already hard at work and you get back the next day and it seems like the mess was never there.
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I don't know about the particular cleanup crew you photographed, but I wonder if people are aware that JazzFest uses prison labor for a significant portion of its set-up and cleanup. Inmates from OPP are trucked out to the racetrack and put to work. I only found this out when it happened to a friend of mine who got locked up. He and a bunch of other black New Orleanians experienced Shell Oil's "Jazz and Heritage Fest" by reliving some heritage that isn't on the brochures: performing unpaid compulsory labor under the supervision of armed overseers...
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