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Video: The Work That Makes All Other Work Possible
Domestic workers are entrusted with the most precious aspects of people’s lives — they’re the nannies, the elder-care workers and the house cleaners who do the work that makes all other work possible. Too often, they’re invisible, taken for granted or dismissed as “help,” yet they continue to do their wholehearted best for the families and homes in their charge. In this sensational talk, activist Ai-Jen Poo shares her efforts to secure equal rights and fair wages for domestic workers and explains how we can all be inspired by them. “Think like a domestic worker who shows up and cares no matter what,” she says.
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If we are really going to have a world worth growing up to live in we need to acknowledge the value of those caring and educating those children growing up in it, all of them. This means valuing caregivers and teachers in real ways.
The best way to change the world is to support caring.
At the core of the environmental crisis is an attitude that can barely be spoken of, it is despondency. This is a result of the overwhelming damage of witnessing the destruction of all caring behavior on an industrial level. The industrial warehousing of children was not a sudden development, and the classifying “citizenship” or lack of it is nothing new either, it is just a “final step” for a culture that glorifies wealth above compassion.
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