Did you know about this? In 2017 Hundreds of Disabled people in Bolivia traveled to the capitol to fight for a disability pension. Something that amounted to a few hundred US dollars a month. Equivalent to what the lowest SSI pensioners receive in the states, about $700 here. There are people here, in the USA living on 7000 dollars a year. Even with subsidized food and housing this is subsistence and nothing more. This is keeping your head above water. And in Bolivia? They asked for less than this and people died for it. The protests dragged on for months. People crawled on their hands and knees in diapers in front of police lines and got pepper sprayed in the face. I put this here to showcase another fight.
The full documentary, “The Fight” is available to watch here:
