The conflict between the owning class and the working class is nowhere so up close and personal as in the workplace, and the owners hold all the cards. When the door to your workplace shuts behind you, you leave your rights outside...
What do people need to be healthy? Ask anyone, and you’ll get the same answers. Clean water. Clean air. A home. Food. Safety. We can’t get these by ourselves. It takes government to provide sanitation systems, environmental protections, housing policies, living wages and security.
In today’s world, 16% of the human population — 1.3 billion people — have some form of physical disability. In Global South countries, the numbers are proportionately higher.
“We have Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, RC Cola, every kind of Cola,” a woman from the global South fumed way back at the 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference, “but there’s no water coming from the tap!” In México, more than one drought has stopped the flow of our world’s most essential liquid — and residents demanding adequate water have regularly come up dry.
The Spanish conquistadors brought the first Africans to New Spain, later to become Mexico, as part of the global slave trade. But the history of Africans in Mexico is very different from the history of Africans and their descendants in the US.
