Martha y Maria: Women's Lives, Women's Rights: People who made your cell phone

Thursday, May 2, 2019

People who made your cell phone

Tech workers in China typically work a day that begins at 9 am, ends at 9 pm, and they do this six days per week.

The 9.9.6 schedule, businesses call it. Oppression is what I call it.

Some workers are now challenging these long hours.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/technology/china-996-jack-ma.html?searchResultPosition=1

These long working hours go into the making of your cell phone and mine.

Thank you to Lin Qiqing and Raymond Zhong for their report on this topic in the New York Times today.

How can we help these workers get better working hours?

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In memory of Martha Puebla & In honor of Maria Riveros

On a spring night in 2003, Martha Puebla, age 16, was shot in the face while sitting outside her home in Sun Valley, California, near Los Angeles. Her death was ordered by a gang member on trial for a murder she had witnessed.

On July 13, 2008, in San Ignacio, Paraguay, Maria Riveros took her pregnant 16-year-old daughter to the home of an obstetrician and asked her to perform an abortion. The fetus of about 4 mo. was buried outside the home, but there were complications and the next day Maria had to rush her daughter to a hospital, where a hysterectomy was performed. The obstetrician and her daughter, a nurse, were arrested and charged with performing an abortion.

This blog is dedicated to Martha, Maria and all women who courageously negotiate their lives in this world filled with gang warfare and international warfare, poverty and wealth, drug trafficking and addiction, and lack of access to birth control, legal abortion, and other health care.