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From: <br>
Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:04 PM<br>
Subject: Fwd: Nov. 20 Protest in SF to
Demand Justice in Mexico; The Meaning of
Nov. 20 for Today; Solidarity Appeal for
the Ayotzinapa Students<br>
To: <br>
<br>
<br>
<div>
<blockquote type="cite">Dear Sisters
and Brothers,å<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">Please join us
this coming<b> Thursday, November 20</b>,
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<b> 4
pm at Justin Herman Plaza</b>. The
march will<b> end at the Civic
Center to join forces with another
protest action</b> (protect Net
Neutrality)<b> that will be taking
place there</b>.<br>
<br>
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.<i> The
Organizer</i> Newspaper and its
sister Spanish-language publication,<i>
El Organizador,</i> 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.]<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">Here is the
facebook link to the November march
and rally in San Francisco:<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/events/963615640332968"
target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/963615640332968</a><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
<i>The Organizer</i> and<i> El
Organizador</i> 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.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>* We Want
The 43 Disappeared Students Back
Alive!</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>* Punish
Those Responsible For These
Crimes!</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>* Justice
Now!</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
In struggle,<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
Editorial Board<br>
<i>The Organizer</i> Newspaper<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
* * * * * * * * * *<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>APPENDIX
No. 1</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
<b>November 20 and Its Meaning For
Today</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">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.<br>
<br>
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).<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
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).<br>
<br>
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<i> ejido</i>,
already negatively impacted by
NAFTA, is slated to be dismantled
altogether. Mexico's national
healthcare and social service
legislation are about to be
destroyed.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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. --<b> A.B.</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
* * * * * * * * * *<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>APPENDIX
No. 2</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b><br>
Ayotzinapa (Mexico) Solidarity
Campaign</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>* We Want
The 43 Disappeared Students Back
Alive!</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>* Punish
Those Responsible For These
Crimes!</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>* Justice
Now!</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">Mexico City,
November 8, 2014<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">To Student
Organizations and Youth Worldwide:<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">We, the
undersigned students at schools and
universities across Mexico, write
you this open letter to express the
following:<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">On the night
of September 26, 2014, in the city
of Iguala, Guerrero (Mexico), six
people were killed (including three
"<i>normalistas</i>" - that is,
youth studying to become public
school teachers). In addition, 25 "<i>normalistas</i>"
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.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">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 "<i>normalistas</i>.")<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">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.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">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.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">Parents and
students of the 43 "<i>normalistas</i>"
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.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">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.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">* We Want The
43 Disappeared Students Back Alive!<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">* Punish Those
Responsible For These Crimes!<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">* Justice Now!<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">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.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">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."<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">Students and
young workers, leaders of student
organizations around the world:<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">We call for
solidarity in your countries with
the just demands of the "<i>normalistas</i>"
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.).<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">We call on you
to demand:<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">* We Want The
43 Disappeared Students Back Alive!<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">* Punish Those
Responsible For These Crimes!<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">* Justice Now!<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">First
endorsers:<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>Centers of
Higher Education</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
<b>Mexico City: National Autonomous
University of Mexico / UNAM: </b>Fac.
de Economía:<i> 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</i>; Fac. de Arte
y Diseño:<i> José Miguel Silva</i>.<b>
National Polytechnical University
/ IPN:</b> Escuela Superior de
Economía (ESE):<i> Wendoline Zamora</i>;
Escuela de Psicología:<i> Mariana
Diosdado Cerroblanco;</i> Escuela
Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y
Eléctrica (ESIME):<i> Jonathan
Aparicio. Aldo Toño Trejo,
Alejandro Ávila Gutiérrez, Ángel
Gutiérrez, Luis Vázquez</i>.<b>
Autonomous Metropolitican
University / UAM:</b> Ciencias
Antropológicas<i>: Gabriela Montoya;</i>
Arquitectura<i>: Román Ortega López;</i>
Diseño Industrial<i>: Cesiah Gómez
Roldán; Ayudante de investigación:
Gloria Miroslava Callejas Sánchez;</i><b>
Colmex<i>:</i></b><i> Josué
Morachis, doctorado en economía.</i><b>
Instituto Tecnológico de
Iztapalapa</b>,<i> Enrique
Hernández Granados</i>.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b> </b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>State of
Jalisco</b>:<b> University of
Guadalajara:</b> Economía<i>:
Abiud Sánchez, Andrés Ramírez,
Claudia Mendoza;</i> Sociología:<i>
Fernanda Justo, Jonathan Ávila,
Erika Jazmín Venadero, Alan
Escatel, Javier Correa, Silvia
López, Shannon Díaz, Topacio
Lomelí;</i> Derecho:<i> Miguel
Solís;</i> Preparatoria 10:<i>
Abraham Garibi; </i>Gestión y
Economía ambiental:<i> Juan Manuel
Chávez, Edith Baltazar.</i><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>State of
Sonora: UNISON:</b> Escuela de.
Trabajo Social<i>: Gabriela Aracely
Encinas Arriola;</i> Ingeniería
Civil<i>: Francisco Eduardo Noriega
Arvizu.</i><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><i> </i><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>State of
Baja California, Mexicali:
Autonomous University of Baja
California / UABC,</b> Psicología<i>:
Erick Antonio Pedroza Peña,
Adriana Ayala Macías, Antonio
Pedroza Peña, Jesús Casillas
Arredondo, Marco Morales Rojo;</i>
Ciencias de la Educación<i>: Melissa
Villanueva;</i> Ciencias de la
Comunicación<i>: Manuel Ángeles y
Edgar Galván;</i> Facultad de
Ciencias Sociales y Políticas<i>:
Johan Alejandra Morales Silva;</i>
Facultad de Pedagogía e Innovación
Educativa<i>: Blanca Nathalia
Carrillo Ortiz, Quetzalli
Figueroa;</i> Facultad de
Arquitectura<i>: Silvia Denisse
Vidal, Gabriela Anchondo;</i>
Facultad de Artes:<i> Erick García;</i>
Facultad de Ciencias Administrativas<i>:
José Williams;</i> Facultad de
Idiomas<i>: Mayra Cordero.</i><b>
University of the Valley of
Mexicali / UVM,</b> Derecho:<i>
Carlos Elenes.</i><b>Technological
Institute of Mexicali /</b><i> </i><b>ITM<i>
-</i></b><i> Jesús Enrique Cinco
Ramírez. E</i>studiante de
docencia en artes<i> Ana Cázares
Casillas;</i> estudiante de
preparatoria<i> Elisa Gastelum,;
Licenciatura Contabilidad Pública
- auxiliar contable: Fabiola
Cazares Casillas; Licenciada en
docencia de la lengua y
literatura: Princesa Raquel
Lizárraga García.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><i><br>
</i><b>Tijuana<i>:</i> Autonomous
University of Baja California /
UABC</b><i>,</i> Facultad de
Odontología<i> - Otzi Ramírez
Guzmán;</i> Facultad de
Humanidades<i>: Angélica Estrada,
Luis Carlos Haro Montoya;</i>
Sociología<i>: Joshua Rivera Arvizu;</i>
Facultad de Turismo<i>: Laura
Alejandra Rivera Arvizu;</i>
Facultad de Ciencias Químicas e
Ingeniería:<i> Andrés Arroyo;</i><b>
Colegio de la Frontera Norte,</b><i>
María Elizabeth Rivera Arvizu,
Asistente de investigación en el
Departamento de Estudios
Culturales</i><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b> </b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>Ensenada:
University of Baja California /
UABC:</b> Facultad de Ciencias
Marinas<i>: Sergio Enrique III
Rebelin Aranda;</i> Sociología<i>
Erika Guadalupe Pérez Pacheco -</i><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><i> </i><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>Estado de
Chiapas, National Autonomous
University of Chiapas / UNACH:</b>
Medicina<i>: Nataly Jiménez García,
Jorge Domingo Parcero Torres,
Isaura Elvia Corzo Martínez;</i>
Pedagogía<i>: Deiner López
Hernández;</i> Arquitectura:<i>
Héctor Ernesto Gusmán Vásquez;</i><b>
Center for Scientific and
Technical Education / CECyTCH<i>:</i></b><i>
María Elisa Santiz Gómez.</i><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">For more
information and/or to send reports
on actions in your schools, cities
and countries: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:justicia.para.ayotzi@gmail.com"
target="_blank">justicia.para.ayotzi@gmail.com</a></blockquote>
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