Transcript Resistencia Popular Ayotzinapa 43

RESISTENCIA
POPULAR
AYOTZINAPA
43
PR I SC I L L A FA LC ON
A L F R ENTE D E LUC HA
(FILE: AYOTZINAPA.PPTX)
DEDICATION
…to
the revolutionary spirit of the students of
Ayotzinapa Normal School, Guerrero.
….to students, teachers, workers, progressive peoples
from all walks of life around the world who struggle for
social justice…..Adelante!
NORMAL SCHOOLS - TEACHER
TRAINING COLLEGES
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Established by Lazaro
Cardenas after the Mexican
Revolution of 1910 for
Campesinos and Indigenous
communities to address issues
of poverty and education.
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Raul Isidro Burgos Normal
School is the name of the
school attended by the 43
students of Ayotzinapa.
•
Issues which concerned
the students included:
poverty, land reform,
increasing costs to attend
school, injustice, and
suffering of their families &
communities.
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Today only 17 Normal
schools remain…
Escuela Normal Rural
Estado
Justo Sierra Mendez
Justo Sierra Mendez
Mactumactza
Ricardo Flores Magon
Guadalupe Aguilera
Gral. Lazaro Cardenas del Rio
Profesor Raul Isidro Burgos
Miguel Hidalgo
Vasco de Quiroga
Gral. Emiliano Zapata
Vanguardia
Carmen Serdon
Gral. Plutraco Elias Calles
Maestro Lauro Aguirre
Lic. Benito Juarez
CESER Luis Hidalgo Monroy
General Matias Ramos Santos
Aguascalientes
Campeche
Chiapas
Chihuahua
Durango
Estado de Mexico
Guerrero (Ayotzinapa)
Jalisco
Michoacan
Morelos
Oaxaca
Puebla
Sonora
Tamaulipas
Tlaxcala
Veracruz
Zacatecas
Alumnos Maestros
421
290
275
460
398
552
522
466
550
361
457
386
338
212
318
200
560
60
47
36
66
64
52
61
35
40
35
54
60
29
49
33
75
STUDENT ACTIONS:
WAYS TO PRESENT THE CAUSE!
Historically student in Mexico support their causes through
various means including
• Taking over highway toll-booths (fundraiser)
• Blocking Roads & seeking donations (fundraiser)
• Borrowing Buses (travel to protest and rally’s)
• Fundraising on the metro lines
• Asking for donations, passing out flyers, etc.
• Selling pins, or other items
• Communities are well aware of these practices and
contribute to student causes.
PEÑA NIETO-POLICIES TO
CRIMINALIZE STUDENTS
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Government policies of increasing
costs to enroll in the Normal
Schools. Lack of support for the
continuation of the Normal School
system and decreasing support for
education in general.
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Campesino and Indigenous Families
have few resources higher tuition
costs mean that poor students
would have a difficult time attending.
•
Many in Mexico feel that Peña
Nieto’s policies are leading to
privatization of education… “the
government would like nothing
better then to transform Mexico into
a sweatshop for foreign
investors”….
NORMALISTA PREPARE TO SEND
DELEGATION - 1968 TLATELOLCO
STUDENT MASSACRE ANNIVERSARY
• Students made agreements with local community of
supporters to borrow busses for the mobilization to DF.
• Normalistas: highly developed social consciousness and
create a positive relationship with the community.
• Community disasters Hurricane Manuel and Ingrid…destroyed
homes, flooding & student assist local community
• Result: community supportive of students
“Normal Schools are the birthplaces of social
consciousness…here they teach you the humility to talk to people,
to work with the people, the poor and the peasants”
Castro Fernandez
BATTLEFIELD: 7 DECADES OF
REPRESSION AND
RESISTANCE
Seven decades: the Mexican state, the privileged classes,
policing agencies have repressed attempts at social reform
Response to repression - Popular Resistance!
Seven decades: The Mexican state, privileged classes,
bourgeoisie and foreign investors have continually exploited
the poor and defenseless.
Response to repression – Popular Resistance!
Seven decades: The Mexican state has chosen the path of
state terror and violence against its citizens. The actions of
federal, state and local authorities have fractured Mexican
society.
Today, it is the blood of youth that the Mexican State is
willing to sacrifice to maintain power and control!
MIGUEL ALEMAN
(1946-1952) REPRESSION
ADOLFO RUIZ CORTINES
(1952-1958)
They enforced state policies that repressed independent campesino and
labor unions. Repression began to force those seeking social justice
outside the structures of the state.
Aleman created the Brigadas Blancas (Paramilitary force) brutally crushing
campesinos, teachers and oil workers; while he made million in alliance
with Conrad Hilton.
1954 Movimiento Revolucionario de Maestros was created to
oppose Ruiz Cortines’ policies limiting education.
LOPEZ MATEOS
(1958-1964)
1959 Lopez Mateos imprisoned
Demetrio Vallejo, leader of the
railroad union. While in prison an
election was held for a new
president - Vallejo won 59,759 to 7he led the union from prison.
Lopez Mateos- Banned Primary
school teachers from engaging in
rally’s & attacked the National
Educational Workers Union. He
ordered federal troops to
Chilpancingo, Guerrero where 2,000
people were demanding an end to
corruption, the result was 13 dead,
hundreds jailed.
RUBEN JARAMILLO
Ruben Jaramillo-born
Talquiltenango, Morelos.
Revolutionary: As a youth of 15 he
joined Zapata. At the age of 17 he held
the rank of Captain in the Revolutionary
Army of the South. For many years
Jaramillo fought for Campesinos &
Land reform. He created the Agrarian
Labor Party of Morelos. May 23, 1962
his home was raided by the Federal
Police on orders of Lopez Mateos,
Mexican soldiers killed him, he
pregnant wife and three sons in
Xochicalco.
RESISTENCIA
ARTURO GAMIZ & PABLO GOMEZ
Arturo Gamiz and Pablo Gomez- Chihuahua
Gamiz and Gomez led campesinos and teachers in organizations to
fight the loss of ejidos. The governor of Chihuahua refuse to
negotiate.
For years we have been asking for justice in a nice way, but you Mr. Governor have
always dismissed us with insults; you have taken the side of the landowners and
given them rights and privileges. We took up arms to achieve with our hands, the
justice which is denied to the poor”
“
Arturo Gamiz
GENARO VASQUEZ ROJAS
LUCIO CABANAS
FLORENCIO GUERO MEDRANO MEDEROS
RESISTENCIA
Genaro Vasquez Rojas, born 1933
in San Luis Acatlan, Guerrero He
was a schoolteacher, attended the
Ayotzinapa Normal School. Defender
of the campesinos. Participated with
Revolutionary Teachers Movement
and the Movimiento de Liberacion
National. After he was released from
prison he went to the mountains of
Guerrero forming the Asociacion
Civica Nacional Revolucionaria.
ACNR. Feb 2, 1972 Vasquez was
captured by the Army. August 1972
assassination of Ricardo Falcon,
Orogrande, New Mexico.
Lucio Cabanas 1938-1974. Lucio was
a school teacher who became a
revolutionary. As a radical school teacher
Lucio was transferred from Atoyac,
Guerrero to Durango, in hopes that he
would not continue organizing. The May
18, 1967, massacre at Atoyac was what
pushed Lucio Cabanas to become a
guerrilla, forming El Partido de los Pobres.
The Mexican government sent over 16,000
soldiers to the mountains searching for
Cabanas including the 27th battalion of
Acapulco, 48th battalion of Cruz Grande,
50th battalion of Atoyac, 32nd battalion of
Chilpancingo and the 19th battalion of
Cuernavaca were all engaged in pursuit of
Lucio. Cabanas was killed on Dec 2,
1974.
Florencio Güero Medrano Mederos 19461979. Born in Limon Grande, Guerrero. Son
of poor campesinos, born into extreme poverty.
Taught himself how to read and write. At the age
of 23 he visited Maoist China where he studied
how class struggle had been applied to a nation
of peasants. On his return to Mexico, Medrano
taught campesinos the strategy of land invasions
and creating colonias on land belonging to
industrialists. He had a following of thousands of
campesinos. His political formations were
Partido Proletario Unido de America and Partido
Proletario Unido de Mexico. Medrano advanced
the idea that the U.S. southwest is “occupied
territory” and that the north and south are one
people divided by a militarily imposed border. On
March 28, 1979, Medrano was assassinated by
General Castillo of Military Zone # 18.
SEPT 26TH AYOTZINAPA 43
WHAT DO WE KNOW?
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The Normal was given the task of acquiring 15/20 bussee for
Ayotzinapa and other rural Normales to travel to Mexico City
to commemorate Tlatelolco 1968.
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Recent reports reveal that student leadership was identified
& targeted. The Federal and State police were conducting
surveillance on students
 Comite de Lucha Estudiantil (1 student)
 Comite de Orientacion Politica y Ideologica COPI (10 students)
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3. Before leaving to Iguala the students already had
confirmation of 8 busses
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4. At 5:59pm on Sept 26th the Federal/State Center for
Control, Command, Communication and Computation
confirmed the normalistas had left Ayotzinapa traveling to
Iguala.
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5. At 8:00pm the Federal and State police arrived at the
Autopista Chilpancingo-Iguala exchange where students
were collecting money for expenses to DF
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At 9:40pm the Central Command reported the first shots
fired. Students were under attack. State police, Federal
police, military, & Iguala Municipal police received the Alert
reports through the C4 command center. In the subsequent
investigation they refused to give up surveillance footage.
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The second attack took place on the Periferico de Iguala.
Bullets penetrated the busses which were carrying students.
Student videos capture the violence, bloodshed and death of
companero Aldo Gutierrez.
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The students were taken to 109 Rayon, Police station in Iguala.
At this point the students are turned over to Guerreros Unidos
according to the Municipal Police.
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On Oct 4, 2014 the regime of Pena Nieto took control of the
investigation.
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On Nov 13, 2014 Secretary of Defense, Salvador Cienfuegos
confirmed that the military’s 27th Battalion was in the zone.
Investigations confirm that they were kept informed through the
C4 Command System.
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The Attorney General ordered the Federal and State police to
submit names of agents, equipment checked out, documentation
of agents who entered and left the base of operation from Sept
24th-28th. Federal and State police refused the Order.
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On Oct 4, 2014 the regime of Pena Nieto took control of the
investigation.
“The federal police participated in the attack on the students
of the Normal de Ayotzinapa on the night of Sept 26th in
which 3 students were killed and 43 disappeared” Dario de
Coahuila, Proceso, University of California at Berkeley
The Mexican Government must be held accountable for their crimes.
WHERE ARE THE
STUDENTS?
No Es Un Caso
Aislado
No Fue El Narco
Fue El Estado
WHAT
CAN WE
DO?