Contents: Mexican Workers Suffer Corporate Violence — By Meizhu Lui, for the editorial team
Voices: Labor Rights are Human Rights—A Report — Interview with Hortensia Escobar Hernández, a UNAM-educated economist who defends human rights and critically analyzes social and labor inequalities. Active in the Antonio Vital Socialist Workers’ House (COSAV) and the Trinational Coalition in Defense of Public Education. Escobar integrates academic work with social organizing and the defense of workers’ rights. Under her direction, COSAV just published a new report on why labor rights are human rights.
Reflections: Invisible Twice: Anti-Union Violence Against Women — By Fabiola Paulina Ramírez Ortiz, a human rights defender with 17 years of experience designing political advocacy strategies with an intersectional approach. Ramírez addresses issues of union democracy, socio-environmental devastation, community organizing and support to victims of discrimination and gender-based violence.
Clicks: Recent news reports and commentaries, from progressive and mainstream media, on life and struggles on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Compiled by Samuel Martínez.
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Bulletin Team: Courtney Childs, Heather Dashner, Pedro Gellert, Vicky Hamlin, Aggie Hinman, Bruce Hobson, Meizhu Lui, Samuel Martínez and Diego Torres.
