Led by Latinos, US Cities Organize to End Plan Mexico and Support Ayotzinapa
Thousands of people came out to protest on Dec. 3 in fifty-four U.S. cities under the hashtag #USTired2. Based on the slogan used by Mexican protesters #YaMeCansé (I’m tired of it) following a remark...
View ArticleThe L.A.-Ayotzinapa Connection
With the Mexican Consulate as a backdrop, at least two hundred people in Los Angeles organized skits, marched and chanted in protest of Enrique Peña Nieto’s meeting with President Obama in Washington...
View Article“The Other Ayotzinapa”: Organizing Against Feminicide in Mexico
Over the past weeks, the bodies of three women were found in three different municipalities of the State of Mexico. The State of Mexico is the most dangerous state for women -- 10 times more women have...
View ArticleSOAW Delegation Calls for Suspension of Plan Merida
Participants of the School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) delegation in Mexico called for the suspension of Plan Merida last month after meeting with Mexican social movements and human rights...
View ArticleFrom #YoSoy132 to Ayotzinapa: The Criminalization of Youth Under Enrique Peña...
The march in commemoration and protest of the disappearances of the 43 students from the Raul Isidro Burgos Normal Rural School of Ayotzinapa brought thousands of protestors to the streets of downtown...
View ArticleOctober 2 Tlatelolco March: A Legacy of Resistance and Remembrance
[caption id="attachment_16814" align="alignleft" width="300"] Students head for the Zocalo plaza.[/caption] Forty-seven years after the Tlatelolco student massacre, a new generation of students marched...
View ArticleThe Mothers of Mexico’s Disappeared Organize in the Face of State Violence
Held just four days after the one-year anniversary of the Ayotzinapa disappearances, at least three hundred people attended the International Forum on Disappearances in Mexico in Mexico City from Sept....
View ArticlePope’s Border Visit Leaves Victims’ Groups Divided on its Impact
As life-size cardboard cut outs of Pope Francisco were propped up throughout Juarez as part of development and publicity efforts that cost the city over 20 million pesos, activists also prepared...
View ArticleMeet the Women Organizing for Mexico’s Disappeared from Los Angeles
[metaslider id=18453]As human rights activists living in Los Angeles, Nansi Cisneros and Karla Castañeda are demanding the Mexican government help them find their missing loved ones. Facing the...
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