We've seen them block the bridges, block the roads and it's an abomination to humanity to stop basic necessities and goods from entering your country to help your own people.
During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.
People around the world are living longer, healthier lives; fewer fall victim to war and famine; as education spreads, discrimination and prejudice are waning.
Similar to the way someone in Mumbai or Nairobi might use the word " slum, " it's to locate our people and to indict the systems of neglect that created these conditions.
Frustrated by these restrictions, Subra left her job in 1981, created her own company and has devoted the past two decades to helping people fight back against giant industrial polluters.