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The Patapsco Fabs

The Patapsco Fabs

PMG's industrial heart. Chip and hardware fabrication along the Patapsco River industrial corridor, southeast of Baltimore proper. The smokestacks are visible from across the harbor. The buildings are old Baltimore steel architecture repurposed for clean-room fab work — the aesthetic clash is one of the campaign's recurring images.

What it is

The Patapsco fabs are PMG's primary visible asset. If you hold a thing manufactured in the Mid-Atlantic, it probably came from here. The clean rooms are state of the corp art; the workers are union by tradition and necessity. PMG has been trying to break the union for years.

Right now, the strike is in its third week. PMG has hired Carrion to break it. The Drownline is sending mutual aid. The Free Stack is leaking documents. And the line has started asking what, exactly, it is they have been making.

Notable features

  • The fab complex itself — clean rooms surrounded by old-Baltimore industrial architecture
  • The strike committee — currently the Beltway's most visible labor action
  • Mutual aid encampments at the fab gates (Drownline-organized)
  • Smokestacks; salt-stained brick; the smell of steel

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