Bolivian miners gave days of monthly wages to buy union radio transmitters.

Evidence

As in Algeria, the Bolivian miners defend their radio transmitters as part of their collective existence. Many unions have bought their transmitter with voluntary contributions of a day’s, two days’ and even three days’ wages per month from all the workers in the mine. The Bolivian miner earns 20 to 40 per month. One must consider his standard of living in order to understand what it means for him to give up a day’s or two days’ wages each month so that the union can get its radio. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 23

Categorization

• SEED: A possible essay angle: media ownership as self-sacrificial collective infrastructure across colonized and postcolonial settings.
• XREF: connects to: Bolivian miners’ union radio transmitters counter official media blackouts and unite workers. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 22

Related

• Bolivian miners’ union radio transmitters counter official media blackouts and unite workers. (similarity 0.90)