1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff. 2 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: I never told you production if I hire radio Annie, 3 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: welcome back, yes to you as well. It's good. This 4 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 1: is our second recording but in one day. But I 5 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: really felt like I needed to do a welcome back again, yes, 6 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 1: because I felt right. It did feel right. And you know, 7 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: we're only seeing each other over these virtual screens, but 8 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: it's still good to see you. Yes, our recordings have 9 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: gotten longer and longer just because I keep asking you 10 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: conversational stuff instead of working, which is probably not helpful. 11 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: But hey, yeah, lots of laughs have been had. I 12 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: haven't talked to somebody in so long. Like, my throat 13 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: is hurting and my face hurts from smiling. But this 14 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: is good. Pain, Okay, good, I'm like, go no, I'm 15 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: I love it. Anything new you've been doing since the 16 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,479 Speaker 1: New Year, because you know that's supposed to be a thing. Well, 17 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,559 Speaker 1: I sent you a picture I got a galaxy projector yeah, 18 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: to ask you about that. It was pretty fancy. Yeah, 19 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: I really like it. And I've been being the biggest 20 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: of nerds and I'll like put it on and I'll 21 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: listen to like classical music and read fan fiction. It 22 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: has been the best and I am trying to stretch 23 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: more so I did a whole stretch session last night. 24 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: It felt really good, but I can tell my body 25 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 1: was you should have been doing this. You've waited two years. 26 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: I googled some health thing that was happening with me 27 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: and they're like, you need to stretch, and I was like, oh, yeah, okay, okay, yeah. 28 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: So I got this is a present to myself. I 29 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: got chocolate hot chocolate bombs. I was so excited and 30 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: I made one and it was so and diclomatic. It 31 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: just sung to the bottom. A couple of marshmallows popped up. 32 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, marshmallows. And then that was And 33 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: then I was like, I don't know if I didn't 34 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: have the milk hot enough. I mean, it's pretty hot, 35 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: but I also didn't want to burn the milk, you 36 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: know that situation. So it was really sad. I need 37 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 1: I want to tell me what I did wrong. Anyway, 38 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: That's not what we're talking about today, No, no, no, 39 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: but we are back with our segments Women around the World, 40 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: and yeah, there's been a lot of news about strikes 41 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: and unions being formed all around the country. All around 42 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: the world, which has been really inspiring to see, and 43 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: it's an exciting time to watch as employees and workers 44 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: are coming together to demand better pay, better benefits, and 45 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: a call to just overhaul a system that is based 46 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: on results in dollars over the people in quality of 47 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: work and quality of conditions. So it is really exciting 48 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: to see and inspiring to see. So we wanted to 49 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: talk about a woman who's been fighting to better work 50 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: situations and right for domestic workers. Uh fifty five year 51 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: old Marcellina Baptista, who has been a part of this 52 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 1: activism in Mexico since she was seventeen years old, so 53 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: she's been working though way before then and continues to 54 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: be recognized for her hard work and passion. And just 55 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:16,799 Speaker 1: to go ahead and let y'all know, we're getting most 56 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 1: of this information and quotes from translated sites. Google Translator 57 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: has been our friend, so it's obviously a little different 58 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: from what she's actually saying or what the sites are 59 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: actually saying when it comes to the Spanish translation versus 60 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: the English translation, so bear with us, but we had 61 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: to celebrate such an amazing woman. Bautista started working as 62 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: a domestic worker in Mexico City at the age of fourteen, 63 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: leaving behind her family and her education from her home 64 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: area of Tierra Colorado Pascal, the na Chislon Wahaka area. 65 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: So sorry if I messed that up, y'all. I'm really 66 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: trying and I can't roll my rs, So don't hate me. 67 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: That's that's skilled for sure. Um. She talked about her 68 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: upbringing in the difficulties of just being a girl slash 69 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: woman in her town, as well as when she left 70 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: to start providing for herself. She was one of twelve 71 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: children and helped with the care of her other siblings 72 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: until she left. In interview with You and Women, she said, 73 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: this violence towards the women I knew are my cousins, 74 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: even though they are the customs, I did not like 75 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: them because my mother was a reflection of that for me. 76 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 1: One day I told my mother that it would not 77 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: happen to me. And although this had consequences in my life, 78 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: I decided my future thanks to those experiences that I 79 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: experienced from a very young age, and she has. After 80 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: twenty two years of working in the domestic field, she 81 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 1: and a group of domestic workers formed a lat esperanza, 82 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 1: or the hope to educate other women domestic workers about 83 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: their rights as workers. But it was at the age 84 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: of seventeen that she was able to learn about her 85 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 1: rights and workers rights within her church community and she 86 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: became confident in her voice to talk about her frustrations 87 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: and difficulties in her job right. The same year last 88 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: Ranzo was born, Batista was invited to represent Mexico in 89 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 1: the first ever Latin American Domestic Workers Conference and Ago 90 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 1: Talk Columbia, which included eleven other countries. So in nine 91 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 1: after she was asked to join the staff meetings at Sinco's, 92 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: which was a part of the u N Organizations, which 93 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: where she was working on the maintenance staff. She was 94 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: able to be a part of the actual staff and 95 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 1: was able to grow in her leadership and her educational 96 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: efforts after the fact, and it wasn't too much longer 97 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: that she started the Center for Support and Training for 98 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: Domestics Employees or the c a c H in two thousand. 99 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: She quote has promoted the human and labor rights of 100 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: domestic workers and carried out the unionization process of this 101 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: labor sector, which was formed on August or the National 102 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 1: Union of Domestic Workers, also known as s I n 103 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: A C t r a h O Sinatra hole UH, 104 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: the first National Union of domestic Workers in Mexico, and 105 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 1: she has been working to continue to bring light to 106 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: the difficulties as well as the mistreatment of so many 107 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: domestic workers in Mexico and around the world. Only is 108 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: she the founder and director of the c a c 109 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: e H, but she also was General Secretariat of the 110 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Domestic Workers are Conloctrojo 111 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 1: and the Regional Coordinator of the International Network of Domestic Workers, 112 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 1: the Regional Coordinator for Latin America of the International Federation 113 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:20,039 Speaker 1: of Domestic Workers f I t H as well. And 114 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: hopefully we're getting these acronyms somewhat correct. Yeah, well, well 115 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 1: they get to connect acronyms. We just don't know how 116 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: people say them necessarily. There you go. The amount of 117 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: work and continued fighting Bautista has been doing for domestic 118 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 1: workers cannot be understated. And when she was asked what 119 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: she felt was her contribution to society, she said, quote, 120 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: make the invisible visible is the model of the organization 121 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: that I preside over. I think that has been my 122 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: contribution to make private work public today, make visible what 123 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: we domestic workers do and our precarious situations, so that 124 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: it is an issue that is on the public agenda, 125 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: but above all be testimony of change that with what 126 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: one has in hand, one can make a difference. I 127 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: believe that I have also contributed to the development of 128 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: the International Standard for Domestic Workers Convention one eight nine, 129 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: and I asked that its ratification be the contribution of 130 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: my Mexican government. Right, we'll talk about that in a bit. 131 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: But she has, she has done all of this, and 132 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: she's been working with governments, like she said, an organizations 133 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: to create a change for domestic workers everywhere. She was 134 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: involved in creating the Convention of one nine of the 135 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland in two thousand eleven, 136 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: which addressed the issues of domestic workers having quote decent 137 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: work as well as the rights of workers, which was 138 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: approved by that convention. And again, yeah, she's been pushing 139 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: that forward in the government. And yes, she's been honored 140 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: for her work, including accolades such as the Amelia Galanda 141 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: Award from the Federal District Human Rights Commission for her 142 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: outstanding work in defending and promoting women's rights and promoting 143 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: gender quality in Mexico, and she also earned that same 144 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: award in the Medal of Merit later. I think it's 145 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: that eighteen. The first award was early two thousand's, so yeah, 146 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: she's definitely doing things. Oh yeah, also was awarded the 147 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: Human Rights Award from the Friedrich Ebert Stiff Sung in Berlin, Germany, 148 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: and the National Prize for Equality and Non Discrimination ordered 149 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: by the National Council to Prevent Discrimination, and was recognized 150 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: in the BBC as well as Forbes magazine for being 151 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: just an overall powerhouse. Right, she has done a lot 152 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: of things that she continues to pop up on list 153 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: because of our organization and her hard work. Another quote 154 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: she may specifically to the BBC, which she was named 155 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 1: BBC one one. She said, quote, Changing the world means 156 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: changing the conditions of millions of domestic workers, mostly women 157 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: who work at home while others developed professionally. This social 158 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: inequality it will only end when domestic workers gets the 159 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: recognition it deserves. And absolutely um and we love to 160 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: see it. We love to see people being change. And yeah, 161 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 1: Mexico is a big hub for domestic work in general. 162 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 1: So oh cheers and we salute you because you're doing 163 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,719 Speaker 1: some amazing things and can't wait to see how many 164 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 1: more things come from her amazing work. Completely agreed and 165 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: as always listeners. If you have any suggestions for someone 166 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: or an organization we should highlight in this segment, please 167 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: send them our away. You can email us at Stuff Media, 168 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,320 Speaker 1: mom Stuff at i heeart media dot com. You can 169 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: find us on Twitter at mom Stuff Podcasts, or on 170 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: Instagram and Stuff I'll Never Told to you. Thanks as 171 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: always start a super producer Christina who was also a powerhouse. 172 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: Oh yes, and thanks to you for listening Stuff Whenever 173 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: Told the protection of iHeartRadio. 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