paypal

Connexions Calendar

Ayotzinapa: Chronicle of a State Crime


September 26, 2015


Film, music, discussion to mark 1st anniversary of disappeared 43 Ayotzinapa Teacher’s College students

Live music, a screening of the documentary film “Ayotzinapa: Chronicle of a State Crime,” public lectures, and a procession will mark one year since the forced disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa Teacher’s College students perpetrated by Mexican police and cartel members. The events coincide with a massive, pan-American day of action in which people across Mexico and throughout the hemisphere will demand that the students be returned alive.

On September 26, 2014 students from the Ayotzinapa Teacher’s College (Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College) were raising money to attend a protest in Mexico City when police and gunmen attacked them in the town of Iguala, Mexico. Three were killed, dozens were injured, and 43 student-teachers were forcefully disappeared, never to be seen again. The Mexican authorities’ bungled investigation only proved their desire to sweep away the problem, while families of the 43 disappeared students continue searching for their sons and exposing complicity at all levels of government and law enforcement in the crime. Since the Mexican government began its War on Drugs in 2006, an astounding 25,230 people have been disappeared and 150,000 confirmed dead.

Time: 1:00 - 5:00
Venue: Beit Zatoun
Location: 612 Markham St. Toronto, ON
Website: http://beitzatoun.org/event/film-ayotzinapa-chronicle-of-a-state-crime/
Categories: Human Rights, Law, Legal

Back to main calendar listings

Request a username and password to submit your events (free)

Find out about distributing your news releases (membership)




Please note that Calendar listings are submitted by a variety of organizations. Connexions does not endorse events or organizations, and Connexions cannot screen individual listings to ensure that they are accurate, or appropriate for your needs. If you have questions about an event, please contact the sponsoring organization.

Individuals and organizations are welcome to make use of the Connexions Calendar by contributing events or by putting the Calendar, or a link to it, on your website. (Download a banner here or here.) If you would like to contribute to the Calendar on a regular basis, please contact us so that we can arrange to issue you a username and password.

The Calendar is a joint project of Connexions Information Sharing Services and SOURCES. SOURCES helps organizations publicize their issues, get media attention, and send out unlimited media releases: to learn about becoming a SOURCES member see this page or the online form.

Terms of Use: Connexions and the Connexions Calendar exist to support individuals and organizations working for freedom and social justice. We try to feature a wide variety of events and resources reflecting a diversity of viewpoints and approaches to social change within our overall mandate of support for democracy, civil liberties, freedom of speech, universal human rights, secularism, equality, economic justice, environmental responsibility, and the creation and preservation of community. Connexions reserves the right to decline listings on the basis of appropriateness or quality, or if in our judgement they conflict with our policies against hatred, racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism or other forms of discrimination such as those based on gender, sexual orientation, age, and ethnicity.