Panel discussion with three Mexican nationals from the Justice in Ayotzinapa Chicago Committee. They address the role of the Mexican state in the disappearance of 43 students, all from an indigenous teachers college that leads the struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and right to collective land ownership, guaranteed by the Constitution following the Mexican Revolution. The government's outrageous handling of the crime has lead to mass and ongoing demonstrations. The students parents refuse to accept the governments attempt to close the case. They have initiated a campaign to tell the world, but especially the people of the United States, of the criminal nature of the Mexican government and the involvement of the United States in it's crimes. The panel followed the showing of the film: "Neither Living Nor Dead: Forced Disappearances in Mexico as a Terror Strategy" (2014) How multinational corporations with U.S. and Mexican government complicity cause terrorism as a way to get people to either leave their homelands or be terrorized into silence. (Spanish w/English subtitles).
Justice in Ayotzinapa Chicago Committee - ayotzinchicago.com St. Nicholas Peace and Justice Committee. Neighbors for Peace
Laura Ramirez is professor of Race & Education at Concordia University and PhD candidate in Education at UIC. She recently traveled to Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico where 43 students disappeared causing social uprising throughout Mexico. There she had discussions with the parents of the 43, and developed her analysis of the situation in Ayotzinapa and in Mexico generally. She is one of the leading activists in the Justice in Ayotzinapa Chicago Committee which has organized speakers, forums, demonstrations in Washington, D.C. and in Chicago.
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