Author: Nidia Bautista

“El Otro Ayotzinapa”: Organizando Contra el Feminicidio en México

April 4, 2015

Durante un período donde la demanda por justicia para Ayotzinapa sigue paralizando las calles de todo el mundo, la epidemia de violencia contra la mujer crece y la justicia para las víctimas sigue siendo relegado a un laberinto de impunidad, ineficiencia y indiferencia del gobierno.

“The Other Ayotzinapa”: Organizing Against Feminicide in Mexico

March 13, 2015

As the demand for justice for the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students continues in streets worldwide, the epidemic of violence against women grows and justice for its victims remains relegated to a labyrinth of impunity, inefficiency and government indifference.

La conexión LA-Ayotzinapa

January 21, 2015

Con el Consulado de México como telón de fondo, por lo menos doscientas personas en Los Ángeles organizaron parodias, marcharon y cantaron en protesta a la reunión entre Enrique Peña Nieto y el presidente Obama en Washington, el pasado 6 de enero. Mientras tanto, cientos de manifestantes se reunieron en la Plaza Lafayette en Washington DC, mientras que algunos se reunieron con miembros del Congreso para pedirles que corten la ayuda económica en seguridad a México.

The L.A.-Ayotzinapa Connection

January 15, 2015

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 on Jan. 6. Meanwhile, hundreds of protestors gathered on Lafayette Square in Washington DC, while some met with members of Congress to ask them to cut US security aid to Mexico.

Led by Latinos, US Cities Organize to End Plan Mexico and Support Ayotzinapa

January 5, 2015

While Peña Nieto and Obama will discuss plans to fortify the bilateral security agenda, which to this date has caused over 100,000 deaths and 24,000 disappearances in Mexico in the last 8 years, citizens of both countries are demonstrating that a transnational organized effort to push for and achieve justice is not only possible, but well under way.

Estudiantes marchan de Tlatelolco al Zocalo

December 17, 2014

Miles de estudiantes marcharon de Tlatelolco, sitio del notorio masacre de universitarios en 1968, al Zócalo en la Ciudad de México el 20 de noviembre en solidaridad con los cuarenta y tres normalistas desaparecidos de La Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos en Ayotzinapa, Guerrero.

Students March for Ayotzinapa and for Their Future

December 1, 2014

Thousands of students marched from Tlatelolco Square, site of the notorious student massacre of 1968, to the Zocalo in Mexico City Nov. 20 in solidarity with the 43 disappeared students of the Rural Teachers’ College in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. The student march, which included both public and private universities and high schools, followed national strikes organized in 79 universities throughout the country.