BREAKING THE WALL OF INDIFERENCE BETWEEN MEXICO AND USA THROUGH INFORMATION
RALLY AND COMMUNITY FORUM WITH VICTIMS OF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT IMPUNITY AND BAD TRADE DEALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
FOR ITS IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Antonio Tizapa tizapa79@gmail.com Tel. 347-451-7542
“The wall that Donald Trump wants to build already exists longtime ago, only it is not made out of brick or stone, but indifference and misinformation,” according to members of the Mexican community in the United States. During this election campaign for the US presidency, in order to “break the wall of apathy and ignorance between our two countries” groups and members of the Mexican community residing in New York called to a rally and informative round table with victims of disappearances, killings, femicides, political persecution and dispossession of lands who will visit NY to inform the Mexican and American community about what is really happening in Mexico and the real causes of immigration. With the participation of parents and teachers of the 43 kidnapped Ayotzinapa students, victims of the June 19th government massacre in Nochixtlán Oaxaca, brave teachers fighting against privatization of public education (CNTE), “Daughters Back Home” from Juárez fighting to end femicides caused by the organized crime within the police and Mexican army, protected by the government, San Quintín farmworkers movement from California, and representatives of the Otomí community of Xochicuautla, Mexico State, who are fighting to protect their land and natural resources, this Day of Action to Break the Wall of Indifference will start at 4 pm with a rally outside the UN building, followed by a community forum at 6 pm at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi. Just a few days before Election Day in the US, this forum aims to draw attention to a reality that both candidates are ignoring, so that the media and the general public know the real consequences of government colluded with drug trafficking and anti-democratic trade policies that are affecting both countries. WHAT? Rally in front of the United Nations and Forum/Dinner WHEN? SAT. OCT 22 at 4PM (Rally) and 6 PM Forum/Dinner WHERE? Rally - 47th St and First Ave NY NY Forum/Dinner - Church of St Francis of Assissi 135 W 31st St NY NY ### This caravan, representing seven Mexican social movements, is an ambitious, non-partisan effort whose goal is to build bi-national solidarity and protest the Mexican government's repressive tactics against its people in the form of disappearances, assassinations, femicides, political persecution and theft of community land and water. The caravan started in Boston, continued in Connecticut, New York and Chicago, go on to Washington and Oregon, and will finish in California. The caravan’s demands are: release of the 43 students who were kidnapped by the government in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero; freedom for all political prisoners; an end to repression in Mexico; justice for all murdered social activists; fulfillment of all the demands of the organizations participating in the caravan; an end to arms shipments from the U.S. to Mexico and closure of the School of the Americas, where Latin America henchmen are trained in repressive military techniques at the expense of the U.S. taxpayers. Adherents- CdMex: CNTE Sección 9ª, Sutuacm Sría Comm y Relaciones Ext, Regional organizations: Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB); Berkeley: Estudiantes por una Política Sensata de Drogas; Los Angeles: Unión del Barrio, Hermandad Mexicana; Oxnard: Todo Poder al Pueblo; Seattle: Comité contra la Represión en México, Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing (LELO); San Diego: American Friends Service Committee, Ángeles sin Fronteras, Association of Raza Educators (ARE), Artful Activists, Coalition For Labor & Community Solidarity (CLCS), Colectivo MAMUT, Fuerza, Grupo Colibrí Danza Azteca Quetzalhuiliztli, Hermandad Mexicana, LOFA, Raíces sin Fronteras, Unión del Barrio; Individuos de: Arizona; Berkeley; Boston; Oregon: Eugene, Portland, Woodburn; Washington: Olympia, Seattle, Yakima, Pullman; California: San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Watsonville
