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Article: Mayan Women In Struggle
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- The Circle
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- May 1, 1994
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Brenda Norrell
Circle, The
05-01-1994
Mayan Women in Struggle.
by Brenda Norrell
In the struggle for human rights, Mayan women from Chiapas say they are willing to lay down their lives for their children's future, while Native Americans and the working class along the Mexican border battle slower deaths from environmental racism.
"We will offer our blood so there can be results. It could not continue the way it was," said Maria Meza Guzman, a Mayan living in Chiapas. "It is a very high price." A weaver in the cooperative "women in struggle," Guzman said it was not only the men, but the women, too, who took up arms in their struggle for housing, water, education, health care and survival in ...