Regine January 16, 2007 vintage

The real super heroes

Photographs from Mexican Circus by Mary Ellen Mark.

Marina Campa (Batman’s Grandmother), Kimberly Crown Circus, Mexico, 1997

Which gives me a good excuse (but did i need any?) to mention the work of Dulce Pinzón. The Real Story of Superheroes series pays homage to a hero who has gone unnoticed: the Mexican immigrant worker in New York. Many of them work long hours in extreme conditions for very low wages which are saved at great sacrifice and sent to families in Mexico who rely on them to survive.

Wonder Woman is employee in a laundry in Brooklyn sends home $150 per week

Via roba and placebokatz.

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Working Gringa on January 18, 2007 at 3:18 am

We’ve met many people here in the Yucatan who work for much less than $150 a week (that’s more than $1500 pesos. Most construction workers work for about $800 pesos a week, for instance). That kind of money helps their families build new homes, send children to school (and buy uniforms), etc.
On our website, you can read about our friend Soco. She goes to beauty school for about $70 a month, something her family could not afford without help. Her father still works in the field, her mother at home. But Soco needs a different future, and that money makes all the difference in the world to her.
http://www.yucatanliving.com/daily-life/beauty-school.htm