Myrtle Witbooi: A Clear Vision of Justice for Domestic Workers

Solidarity Center

Feb 13 2023 | 00:29:51

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Show Notes

Myrtle Witbooi, a fierce advocate of domestic worker rights who recently passed away, is remembered in this Solidarity Center Podcast episode by Solidarity Center Domestic Worker Global Lead Alexis De Simone. We also hear from Myrtle herself, as she accepted the AFL-CIO’s Human Rights award on behalf of the International Domestic Worker Federation, which she helped form and led. “Her deep conviction that when women, when the working poor, when women of color, when workers in the Global South, when union sisters and brothers decide to join forces, decide that they are in it together, there is no […]

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