Let Me Speak! by Domitila Barrios de Chungara with Moema Viezzer

✨ Engaging book titled 'Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a woman of the Bolivian mines' by Domitila Barrios de Chungara with Moema Viezzer. Features a vibrant cover with pink and red tones. No writing or markings / highlights in the book. Used for a college course. Very inspiring. 📖 Classic recounting of a unionists' struggle against exploitation and dictatorship from within the mines of Bolivia. Let Me Speak! is the story of a valiant fighter for indigenous and workers’ rights in the mines of Bolivia. First published in English in 1978, Monthly Review Press is now reprinting Let Me Speak! in this new edition, 45 years later. Written with the assistance of Brazilian sociologist and popular educator Moema Viezzer, this is a lasting classic of the testimonial genre, or the Latin American “testimonio” of one individual in the service of her community and of justice at large. This testimonial structure impacts the way Chungara and Viezzer choose to share Chungara’s story. At one point Chungara is jailed and tortured, but escapes. The army, in collusion with her husband’s employers, drive her, terrified children in tow, from their home – but she makes herself a new home. At other points she is a witness to bloody massacres of miners, and brutal government repression of strikes and labor meetings, but she keeps speaking up, as a death warrant hangs over her head.Indefatigable in her conviction and sense of dignity, Chungara first raises her voice alongside 70 other women.