is 9:00 am Friday 11 February, students from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa are taking class. Suddenly, a stranger enters the room asking for Bernardo, and the teacher tells you who it is. The subject sees and fires three times, then disappears and no one is prevented by Bernardo while lying on the ground bleeding.
two months ago, Marisela Escobedo killed by a bullet in the head when he protested against the Government Palace in Chihuahua City, in October last year, Darío Álvarez was the victim of the shooting of the Federal Police as part of an event against the militarization and violence , an event like today. All three, like many others, suffered the consequences of a country choked by poverty, injustice, inequality, unemployment, corruption, indifference ...
The government and mainstream media have tried to convince us we are better than before. On the radio, on television and in newspapers sycophants of power, constantly ignored report that there is economic crisis in the country, workers earn no wages, unemployment that prevails, that not everyone has access to health, justice, and that most young people are excluded from education, work and social security, that the basic food price rise excessively.
We have tried to convince that there is no poverty in Mexico, although there are 80 million Mexicans who are not insured, not even the food the next day, they have tried to convince them that this government is not corrupt and not working for a small privileged group, while it is allocated Luz y Fuerza del Centro throwing misery more than 44 thousand workers and their families, while, in concession to private companies for nearly 20 percent of the country to be exploited and can extract gold and other minerals at the expense of the destruction of rivers, forests and farmland , as will in the region of La Montaña de Guerrero, as they did in San Luis Potosi, Chiapas and other states.
And we have repeated time and again that the only solution to all our problems is to start a war against organized crime, alleged enemy within, as if it were solely responsible for all our ills, as if we knew it the same State that protects him, it promotes and puts a pretext to launch his war: war of plunder against the assets of people and our nation, war financed with money and weapons from the U.S. government through the so-called Plan Merida, war whose purpose, in fact, is to impose an economic model that deepens inequalities, protecting the interests of a minority, and intended to end any attempt by the people for taking a truly representative government.
Do they think we are a people who swallow their lies? Do you think that we do not compare the four pesos wage increase to over a thousand who rose to soldiers and sailors?
would have to ask the parents of 994 children who have been killed at military checkpoints or in clashes between armed forces and criminal gangs, if the death of their children has been the best thing that happened; would have to ask ourselves whether the death of 34 000 executed so far in this administration, was the solution to the problems of their families should be asked to the families of the hundreds of detainees and missing persons, if the pain and uncertainty not knowing where their loved ones allowed them to "live better."
Where is the justice in this country? Why seek steal our sense of solidarity, dignity and the capacity to feel the pain of others as their own?
Militarization has been slowly invading the country. For years in Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca, and recently, in Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Guanajuato, Michoacan and Yucatan, we see hundreds of soldiers patrol towns and cities, some dressed as federal police, other paramilitaries. Today, the military is in our town, the sailors walk the streets to harass the population.
Do you think that see dozens of soldiers and police to hide his face and point their weapons indiscriminately gives us peace of mind? How to do it, if we all know that the vast majority of their crimes against innocent civilians have gone unpunished.
Children, women, youth, older people in all corners of the country, who would not have been the victim of abuse of authority, of mockery, arrogance, indifference of the authorities we just considered "collateral damage" of a war we did not ask?
Women raped, tortured, half eaten by dogs or vultures in the desert, men beheaded or hung on bridges, with the testes or the severed penis. These are the horrifying images that the government wants to get used to, with whom we want to terrorize, paralyze, isolate, seal our mouths forever and so stop from now and within ourselves, with any hope to transform this reality imposed on us as the only possible.
wants to take the future for which we struggle to impose one of violence and submission that they want for us.
And we, can we stop it?, Will we be able to find in the deep love of our people the courage, integrity, creativity to drive the organization all around our social problems? Will we be able to see beyond our own suffering, our shortcomings? Can we look up and look for all all for all?
One thing is certain: the solution to the disastrous situation in which we live does not come from those who oppress us in many ways, come to us come from confidence in our abilities, come from all women and men that throughout our history have taught us the meaning of dignity, respect for the other rail decision, indestructible, irreducible to fight and resist until the last moment of our existence, the country fair, free and democratic, we aspire to, will come from those who, despite everything and against everything, not to give up their hard, everyday work of informing, sensitizing and always organize with others in the neighborhood, the neighborhood, factory, school, village, home, even there where no one wants, come from the unity of all people.
militarization is not the solution!
tanks crush no inequality and injustice!
weapons directed against the people are not free; subject him, humiliating him, raking him!
We want more schools, more books, no more bullets!
We
hospitals, decent housing, no more helicopters flying around our heads!
We want decent jobs, fair wages, no more trained to kill soldiers who are ordered!
Being young is not a felon!
No criminalization of social protest!
State Stop Violence Against Women!
State Stop violence against the people!
We can deny our right to fight and resist, but they can never prevent men worthy, worthy women always seek justice, truth, that we never lose the memory or the purpose of combating impunity.
All victims of militarization and systemic violence across our country, all our comrades social activists in recent times have been persecuted, tortured, imprisoned, or extrajudicial executions and disappearances have been arrested ; them all from here our love, our courage, our determination to fight and never surrender.
To the people of Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, in particular, our health, our solidarity, our daily struggle for justice. For you, for us, for we all are. Walk to the end and will always do our best to keep organized.
to everyone who currently listens to us, to all who later read this proclamation, we fight together, find the best ways to organize, let's make this movement grow, to live with dignity, to build a Country Fair, a Mexico ours, not to go through life like any time I remember dry.
Sincerely
Metropolitan Coordinator Against Militarization and Violence
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