Boston Rally in solidarity with the Mexican students of the Normal de Maestros of Ayotzinapa

When: Wednesday, November 19th @ 5:00 pm

Where: Across street from Mexican Consulate

55 Franklin Street, Boston, MA

Bring a flashlight!

Enough is

enough!!Forty-three students

kidnapped in Mexico. Ayotzinapa is not an

isolated case: The state of Guerrero is only

one of several Mexican states where the

government authorities are involved in

corruption, police brutality, organized crime,

and torture. Murders and disappearances

are perpetrated on peaceful protesters.

Ayotzinapa calls to mind other similar cases

including: Aguas Blancas and Acteal where

corrupt police in league with organized crime

have effectively criminalized social protest.

 

The kidnapped students were from the

Rural Teacher’s School of Ayotzinapa,

which was founded in 1926, to offer

children of farm workers access to

education. The student body is well known

for its activism, advocating better

education and expanded enrollment for the

children of farm workers. This teachers’

college has experienced governmental

attacks in the past including threats to

close the school and to force privatization.

These students were involved in an effort

to prepare for a commemoration of the

Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City on

October 2nd, 1968. The students were

collecting donations in Ayotzinapa and had

commandeered three buses to further their

efforts. They were arrested, picked up, and

were never heard from again.

 

The protest in Boston is being organized to

express solidarity with the march organized

in Mexico by the Student Federation of

Socialist Peasants (Federación de Estudiantes

Campesinos Socialistas de MX :FECSM).

Among their demands, are the impeachment of

Mexico’s President, Enrique Pena Nieto and

prison for Guerrero’s former governor,

Ayotzinapa’s former mayor & his wife, and the

secretary of public safety from Iguala.