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Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 06:29:52 JST Adrianna Tan

I love everything about this: there was a Mexican wrestler called Super Barrio who was a superhero for tenants rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbarrio_G%C3%B3mez
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  Superbarrio Gómez
  
  Superbarrio Gómez is a Mexican "real-life superhero", satirist and organizer. Inspired by the Luchador wrestler El Santo, and his social-justice superhero persona in comics and movies, Superbarrio wears red tights and a red and yellow wrestler's mask. Rather than fight crime and corruption with violence, he uses his image to organize labor rallies and protests, and file petitions. Although he has been claimed to be Marco Rascón Córdova, the authorized biography Todos Somos Superbarrio states that although Rascón Córdova, a long-time social activist, did create the character, Marco was never Superbarrio, but it was rather a lesser-known political organizer, who was in turn substituted for a wrestler in the few times he actually fought on the ring. The character was created in 1987 by Asamblea de Barrios, an organization fighting for affordable housing after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, which left thousands of homeless. He began with stopping the evictions of families who paid rent. In 1988, he was informally declared candidate for the Mexican 1988 presidential election. He declined in favor of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and his Party of the Democratic Revolution...
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  Federico Mena Quintero (federicomena@mstdn.mx)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 07:04:46 JST Federico Mena Quintero
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  @skinnylatte we also had Peatónito, who fights for pedestrian rights. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/09/unmasked-mexico-city-superhero-wrestling-pedestrian-rights
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    Unmasked! The Mexico City superhero wrestling for pedestrians' rights
    
    from Dulce Ramos in Mexico City
    
    Clogged with traffic, crippled by poor infrastructure – the capital is notoriously hard to navigate on foot. Enter Peatónito, the activist fighting for safer streets

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