[sudo-discuss] Fwd: Nov. 20 Protest in SF to Demand Justice in Mexico; The Meaning of Nov. 20 for Today; Solidarity Appeal for the Ayotzinapa Students
April Glaser
april at eff.org
Wed Nov 19 00:38:25 PST 2014
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> The Meaning of Nov. 20 for Today; Solidarity Appeal for the
> Ayotzinapa Students
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>> Dear Sisters and Brothers,å
>> Please join us this coming*Thursday, November 20*, at a march and
>> rally in San Francisco to protest the killings of 6 students and
>> the disappearance of 43 other students at the community teachers'
>> college in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, in Mexico. The starting point of
>> the march will be at*4 pm at Justin Herman Plaza*. The march
>> will*end at the Civic Center to join forces with another protest
>> action* (protect Net Neutrality)*that will be taking place there*.
>>
>> The march has been called by a broad coalition of organizations
>> led by the ANSWER coalition, including MEChXA and many other
>> Latino and grassroots community groups./The Organizer/ Newspaper
>> and its sister Spanish-language publication,/El Organizador,/ are
>> urging their readers and supporters to mobilize to demand justice
>> for the students in Ayotzinapa but also to place the onus for the
>> killings/disappearances on the Mexican State, as the workers and
>> students will be doing across Mexico in mass mobilizations and
>> student strikes on November 20 -- a national holiday in Mexico
>> that marks the beginning of the Revolution of 1910-1917. [See
>> Appendix 1 below on the Meaning of November 20 for Today.]
>>
>> Here is the facebook link to the November march and rally in San
>> Francisco:
>> https://www.facebook.com/events/963615640332968
>>
>> /The Organizer/ and/El Organizador/ have also been circulating
>> widely an Appeal issued by students across Mexico demanding
>> justice for the students of Ayotzinapa [see Appendix 2 below].
>> Please join us in circulating this Appeal widely.
>>
>> ** We Want The 43 Disappeared Students Back Alive!*
>> ** Punish Those Responsible For These Crimes!*
>> ** Justice Now!*
>>
>> In struggle,
>>
>> Editorial Board
>> /The Organizer/ Newspaper
>>
>> * * * * * * * * * *
>>
>> *APPENDIX No. 1*
>>
>> *November 20 and Its Meaning For Today*
>>
>> November 20 is the date that marks the beginning of the Mexican
>> Revolution of 1910-1917 that overthrew the pro-U.S. dictator
>> Porfirio Díaz and established a Constitution granting major
>> social, political and economic rights to the people of Mexico -
>> all gains that would be extended during the 1930s by the
>> government of Lázaro Cárdenas. November 20 marks the beginning of
>> a major social revolution that affirmed the sovereignty and
>> independence of Mexico against all foreign interests and against
>> all Mexican politicians in their service.
>>
>> But November 20, 2014 - more than 100 years later - marks a
>> moment when the Mexican nation and its people, the majority of
>> them working class, are at a crossroads, as the entire political
>> establishment and its institutional parties (PRI, PAN and PRD)
>> have all accepted to implement the country-selling
>> "counter-reforms" promoted by President Enrique Peña Nieto, at
>> the behest of U.S. imperialist interests, in the name of the Pact
>> for Mexico (a misnomer, if ever there was one).
>>
>> The implementation of these "counter-reforms" - which are due to
>> be carried out in the coming weeks - will constitute the
>> comprehensive dismantling of the material foundations of national
>> sovereignty and the full-scale destruction of the rights and
>> gains won through struggle by the working masses and the
>> oppressed people of Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
>>
>> Let us also not forget that during the 1930s, President Lázaro
>> Cárdenas expropriated the British and U.S. imperialist oil
>> companies and thus created the state oil company Petróleos
>> Mexicanos (PEMEX). Over the course of the next 76 years, oil
>> revenues were completely in the hands of the nation, which
>> provided for the establishment of the public healthcare system,
>> the national electrical utility CFE (Comisión Federal de
>> Electricidad), and other institutions in the interests of the
>> Mexican people.
>>
>> Indeed, under pressure from the revolutionary movement that had
>> not yet died after 1917, Cárdenas carried out a far-reaching land
>> reform, which distributed 20 million hectares to low-income rural
>> workers and promoted the agrarian institution of the "ejido" -
>> communal land owned by the State but tenanted and worked by
>> individual farmers on an inalienable basis. In this same
>> situation, the State was compelled to recognize collective
>> bargaining for the oil workers and those in other industrial sectors.
>>
>> The struggles of the 1930s were part of the continuity of the
>> Revolution of 1910-17, which posed the land issue among others
>> (the land was controlled by an oligarchic minority and foreign
>> estate-owners).
>>
>> Today, the future of the Mexican nation is at stake, along with
>> its sovereignty and the survival of the working class and youth.
>> Mexico's oil is being handed over to foreign-owned transnational
>> corporations. The/ejido/, already negatively impacted by NAFTA,
>> is slated to be dismantled altogether. Mexico's national
>> healthcare and social service legislation are about to be destroyed.
>>
>> On November 20, all the political institutions and mainstream
>> parties will be celebrating the Mexican Revolution and giving lip
>> service to its heros. But all the political institutions and
>> parties that supported NAFTA, and/or the Mérida Plan, and/or the
>> Pacto por México (as is the case of the PRI, PAN and PRD) have no
>> right - they have no moral or political authority - to speak in
>> the name of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 or to celebrate
>> this historic date. Through all their actions, these
>> country-selling politicians, are reversing all the gains
>> enshrined in the Mexican Constitution as a result of this revolution.
>>
>> It is now up to the Mexican working class - as demonstrated by
>> the electrical workers of the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas
>> (SME), who with their resistance struggle are calling to defend
>> Mexico's energy sector - and it is up to the Mexican youth, who
>> are organizing mass marches and general student strikes to demand
>> justice for the 43 disappeared students of Ayotzinapa - to
>> reclaim the banner of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-17 and drive
>> out all the corrupt politicians who have sullied the Mexican
>> struggle led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata for national
>> independence and social and economic justice. --*A.B.*
>>
>> * * * * * * * * * *
>>
>> *APPENDIX No. 2*
>> *
>> Ayotzinapa (Mexico) Solidarity Campaign*
>>
>> ** We Want The 43 Disappeared Students Back Alive!*
>> ** Punish Those Responsible For These Crimes!*
>> ** Justice Now!*
>>
>> Mexico City, November 8, 2014
>>
>> To Student Organizations and Youth Worldwide:
>>
>> We, the undersigned students at schools and universities across
>> Mexico, write you this open letter to express the following:
>>
>> On the night of September 26, 2014, in the city of Iguala,
>> Guerrero (Mexico), six people were killed (including three
>> "/normalistas/" - that is, youth studying to become public school
>> teachers). In addition, 25 "/normalistas/" were wounded (two of
>> them severely) and 43 others were kidnapped. All these young
>> people are students of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Teachers College in
>> Ayotzinapa, a school attended by children of the poorest peasant
>> families in the country.
>>
>> The events of Iguala have shown for all to see the close
>> relationship that has been woven over recent decades between the
>> drug gangs and the State institutions (municipal and federal
>> police; mayors of all institutional parties; and army commanders,
>> who failed to take action to stop the repression and kidnapping
>> of the young "/normalistas/.")
>>
>> The barbarism of Iguala has sparked a huge outcry among the
>> Mexican people, first and foremost among the hundreds of
>> thousands of young students who have taken to the streets in mass
>> demonstrations in all the states across Mexico. In Mexico City
>> alone, three major mass protests have taken place on October 8
>> and 22 and November 5, the latter having gathered more than
>> 100,000 participants.
>>
>> More than 40 days later, President Enrique Peña Nieto (PRI) and
>> Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam have stated that the 43 were
>> killed, burned, tortured, and their bodies dumped in a river.
>>
>> Parents and students of the 43 "/normalistas/" have rejected,
>> understandably, the declarations of Peña Nieto and Murillo Karam.
>> The parents have stated: "We have no confidence in the government
>> of Peña Nieto and the Attorney General." Indeed, for more than 40
>> days, the government has done nothing but slow down the
>> investigation and the trial of the detained police officers. They
>> have told lie after lie about what occurred. They have tried to
>> hide the close ties between the police and officials, on the one
>> hand, and the drug gangs, on the other. NO, we cannot accept what
>> the highest officials now tell us if there is no clear,
>> scientific/forensic proof to back their claims.
>>
>>
>> The parents of the disappeared students, supported by students
>> nationwide, are calling for increased mobilizations and
>> solidarity -- both locally and internationally -- until their
>> demands are met.
>>
>> * We Want The 43 Disappeared Students Back Alive!
>> * Punish Those Responsible For These Crimes!
>> * Justice Now!
>>
>> These barbaric acts are the most recent expression of a policy of
>> repression against the youth, and they are bound up with the
>> policies pursued by the State over the past few decades aimed at
>> destroying the hard-won gains of working people and dismantling
>> the sovereignty of the nation through the so-called "structural
>> reforms," "free trade" and privatization.
>>
>> All these policies have led to a process of social decay and
>> corruption at all levels of government. Those responsible for
>> these crimes are not only those who directly kidnapped the
>> students; also responsible are the mayor of Iguala (now in jail),
>> the governor of the state of Guerrero (who was forced to resign
>> -- in both cases because of the pressure from below of the
>> protest movement), and the federal government of Enrique Peña
>> Nieto. In all the mass protests and in slogans painted on walls
>> nationwide, the youth are crying out: "The State Is Responsible."
>>
>> Students and young workers, leaders of student organizations
>> around the world:
>>
>> We call for solidarity in your countries with the just demands of
>> the "/normalistas/" in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero (Mexico), in ways
>> that you deem appropriate (delegations and protests at Mexican
>> embassies and consulates, letters of protests / emails to the
>> Mexican government, rallies, etc.).
>>
>> We call on you to demand:
>>
>> * We Want The 43 Disappeared Students Back Alive!
>> * Punish Those Responsible For These Crimes!
>> * Justice Now!
>>
>> First endorsers:
>>
>> *Centers of Higher Education*
>>
>> *Mexico City: National Autonomous University of Mexico / UNAM:
>> *Fac. de Economía:/Mancilla Ramos Osvaldo, Rodríguez Serrano
>> Nuria, Cruz Vélez Azucena, Reyes Romero Miguel Ricardo, Galindo
>> Betanzos Juan Pablo, Santana Duarte Orlando, Barrón Arturo,
>> Martínez Edgard Adrián, Morales Rodríguez Juana del Carmen,
>> Romero Esquivel Miguel Eduardo/; Fac. de Arte y Diseño:/José
>> Miguel Silva/.*National Polytechnical University / IPN:* Escuela
>> Superior de Economía (ESE):/Wendoline Zamora/; Escuela de
>> Psicología:/Mariana Diosdado Cerroblanco;/ Escuela Superior de
>> Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica (ESIME):/Jonathan Aparicio. Aldo
>> Toño Trejo, Alejandro Ávila Gutiérrez, Ángel Gutiérrez, Luis
>> Vázquez/.*Autonomous Metropolitican University / UAM:* Ciencias
>> Antropológicas/: Gabriela Montoya;/ Arquitectura/: Román Ortega
>> López;/ Diseño Industrial/: Cesiah Gómez Roldán; Ayudante de
>> investigación: Gloria Miroslava Callejas
>> Sánchez;/*Colmex/:/*/Josué Morachis, doctorado en
>> economía./*Instituto Tecnológico de Iztapalapa*,/Enrique
>> Hernández Granados/.
>> * *
>> *State of Jalisco*:*University of Guadalajara:* Economía/: Abiud
>> Sánchez, Andrés Ramírez, Claudia Mendoza;/ Sociología:/Fernanda
>> Justo, Jonathan Ávila, Erika Jazmín Venadero, Alan Escatel,
>> Javier Correa, Silvia López, Shannon Díaz, Topacio Lomelí;/
>> Derecho:/Miguel Solís;/ Preparatoria 10:/Abraham Garibi;
>> /Gestión y Economía ambiental:/Juan Manuel Chávez, Edith Baltazar./
>>
>> *State of Sonora: UNISON:* Escuela de. Trabajo Social/: Gabriela
>> Aracely Encinas Arriola;/ Ingeniería Civil/: Francisco Eduardo
>> Noriega Arvizu./
>> / /
>> *State of Baja California, Mexicali: Autonomous University of
>> Baja California / UABC,* Psicología/: Erick Antonio Pedroza Peña,
>> Adriana Ayala Macías, Antonio Pedroza Peña, Jesús Casillas
>> Arredondo, Marco Morales Rojo;/ Ciencias de la Educación/:
>> Melissa Villanueva;/ Ciencias de la Comunicación/: Manuel Ángeles
>> y Edgar Galván;/ Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Políticas/:
>> Johan Alejandra Morales Silva;/ Facultad de Pedagogía e
>> Innovación Educativa/: Blanca Nathalia Carrillo Ortiz, Quetzalli
>> Figueroa;/ Facultad de Arquitectura/: Silvia Denisse Vidal,
>> Gabriela Anchondo;/ Facultad de Artes:/Erick García;/ Facultad de
>> Ciencias Administrativas/: José Williams;/ Facultad de Idiomas/:
>> Mayra Cordero./*University of the Valley of Mexicali / UVM,*
>> Derecho:/Carlos Elenes./*Technological Institute of Mexicali
>> /*/ /*ITM/-/*/Jesús Enrique Cinco Ramírez. E/studiante de
>> docencia en artes/Ana Cázares Casillas;/ estudiante de
>> preparatoria/Elisa Gastelum,; Licenciatura Contabilidad Pública -
>> auxiliar contable: Fabiola Cazares Casillas; Licenciada en
>> docencia de la lengua y literatura: Princesa Raquel Lizárraga
>> García./
>>
>> /
>> /*Tijuana/:/ Autonomous University of Baja California / UABC*/,/
>> Facultad de Odontología/- Otzi Ramírez Guzmán;/ Facultad de
>> Humanidades/: Angélica Estrada, Luis Carlos Haro Montoya;/
>> Sociología/: Joshua Rivera Arvizu;/ Facultad de Turismo/: Laura
>> Alejandra Rivera Arvizu;/ Facultad de Ciencias Químicas e
>> Ingeniería:/Andrés Arroyo;/*Colegio de la Frontera Norte,*/María
>> Elizabeth Rivera Arvizu, Asistente de investigación en el
>> Departamento de Estudios Culturales/
>> * *
>> *Ensenada: University of Baja California / UABC:* Facultad de
>> Ciencias Marinas/: Sergio Enrique III Rebelin Aranda;/
>> Sociología/Erika Guadalupe Pérez Pacheco -/
>> / /
>> *Estado de Chiapas, National Autonomous University of Chiapas /
>> UNACH:* Medicina/: Nataly Jiménez García, Jorge Domingo Parcero
>> Torres, Isaura Elvia Corzo Martínez;/ Pedagogía/: Deiner López
>> Hernández;/ Arquitectura:/Héctor Ernesto Gusmán Vásquez;/*Center
>> for Scientific and Technical Education / CECyTCH/:/*/María Elisa
>> Santiz Gómez./
>>
>> For more information and/or to send reports on actions in your
>> schools, cities and countries: justicia.para.ayotzi at gmail.com
>> <mailto:justicia.para.ayotzi at gmail.com>
>
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