(1977) - Let me Speak! - Domitila Barrios de Chungara
What happens when a community refuses to stay silent about its own erasure? That’s at the heart of Let Me Speak!, the powerful testimony of , a Bolivian miner’s wife who found her voice in union organizing and the Housewives’ Committees. She saw how the system taught her people to see themselves as nothing more than invisible labor, not citizens, not women, not humans worthy of dignity. But through hunger strikes, solidarity networks, and public storytelling, she and other women affirmed a different kind of identity in the struggle, not pride in poverty or the hollow victory of climbing above others, but the possibility of a future beyond rich and poor, exploiter and exploited, where no one has to live unseen.
In my case, for example, my husband works, I work, I make my children work, so there are several of us working to support the family. And the bosses get richer and richer and the workers' conditions get worse and worse.