How Mumbai’s Sanitation Workers Won Their Rights How Mumbai’s Sanitation Workers Won Their Rights
This union movement used both legal strategies and confrontational methods to successfully organize Dalit workers.
Mar 5, 2019 / Sujatha Fernandes
How Socially Engaged Activism Is Transforming Cuba How Socially Engaged Activism Is Transforming Cuba
Community-run cultural centers are rejuvenating post-industrial life, especially for a younger generation.
Feb 21, 2018 / Sujatha Fernandes
Hairdressers of the World Unite! (You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Locks… and a Community to Win) Hairdressers of the World Unite! (You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Locks… and a Community to Win)
In one Havana neighborhood, they’re doing exactly that.
Dec 28, 2017 / Sujatha Fernandes
Trump’s Cold-War Politics Are Hurting Ordinary Cubans Trump’s Cold-War Politics Are Hurting Ordinary Cubans
Recent US measures have compounded daily insecurities and hardships.
Nov 15, 2017 / Sujatha Fernandes
We Need to Fight for All Undocumented Migrants, Not Just Dreamers We Need to Fight for All Undocumented Migrants, Not Just Dreamers
Distinctions about who is more “deserving” or “patriotic” are invidious—all migrants are rights-bearing human beings.
Sep 8, 2017 / Sujatha Fernandes
Afro-Cuban Activists Fight Racism Between Two Fires Afro-Cuban Activists Fight Racism Between Two Fires
They’re caught between a government that denies the existence of racism and fellow black Cubans who lack racial consciousness.
May 24, 2016 / Sujatha Fernandes
In Cuba, Will the Revolution Be Digitized? In Cuba, Will the Revolution Be Digitized?
US media depict the island as stuck in the digital dark ages, but Cuba has lively cultures of connectivity that could evolve into a self-sustaining, open, and accessible digital co...
Mar 18, 2016 / Sujatha Fernandes
What Do Cubans Think of Normalization With the United States? What Do Cubans Think of Normalization With the United States?
They’re divided, by generation and class, over whether it will be a good thing.
Feb 9, 2016 / Feature / Sujatha Fernandes
The Repeating Barrio The Repeating Barrio
The 2014 film Canción de Barrio tells a dark story about those who are being left out of the promises of liberty and prosperity in the new Cuba.
Feb 1, 2016 / Sujatha Fernandes
What Does the ‘No’ Vote Mean? What Does the ‘No’ Vote Mean?
The referendum defeat may temporarily revive a flagging opposition, but it does not spell the collapse of the movement Chávez has inspired.
Dec 7, 2007 / Feature / Sujatha Fernandes