March 20 - March 31 | Footprints of Memory: In the Search for Mexico's Disappeared | Exhibition and parallel activities
These are the shoes of relatives searching for their missing loved ones in Mexico, engraved with words about their search. In the opening we will have the participation of artist Alfredo González Casanova and María de Jesús Tlatempa Bello, mother of José Eduardo Bartolo Tlatempa, one of the 43 students disappeared in Ayotzinapa since September 2014. Event organised by Huellas de la Memoria, with the collaboration of Amnesty International and the support of LMS
- 20th March - Exhibition Opening | 19:00 - 21:00 | Amnesty International, 17-25 New Inn Yard EC2A 3EA, London.
- 21st March: Film screening of 'Absences' and discussion at SOAS, B102 Brunei Gallery | 19:00-21:00
April 3 - April 8 | Footprints of Memory. In the Search for Mexico's Disappeared | Exhibition in Aberystwyth
These are the shoes of relatives searching for their missing loved ones in Mexico, engraved with words about their search. In the opening we will have the participation of artist Alfredo González Casanova and María de Jesús Tlatempa Bello, mother of José Eduardo Bartolo Tlatempa, one of the 43 students disappeared in Ayotzinapa since September 2014. Event organised byHuellas de la Memoriaand Aberystwyth University. Programme:
- 3rd April: Exhibition Opening | Time to be confirmed | Arthouse - Ty Celf, 1 Laura Place, Aberystwyth. - 5th April: Film screening 'Absences' | TBC - 6th -8th April:Symposium 'Absence, Presence, and Embodiment' | Old College, Aberystwyth University, King Street, Aberystwyth, SY23 2Ay
Further info: fb event
April 3 | War and Journalism in Mexico | 18:00 - 20:30
Join London Mexico Solidarity for a conversation with Paula Mónaco and Miguel Tovar on the brave work that journalists are doing in the context of the so called "War on Drugs" in Mexico. Chaired by Amanda Hopkins and organised with English Pen and Alborada London. Event Organised by LMS in collaboration withAlborada and English PEN.
March 8, 13, 14 & 24 | Women Generating Change: A Month of Activities.
A month of activities to feel, explore and express being a powerful, anti-patriarchal, migrant woman.
- March 8th | Women, Creativity and Struggle | 18:00 - 20:30 - A conversation with Wretched of the Earth, LAWRSLondon Mexico Solidarity and Movimiento Jaguar Despierto
- March 13th & 14th | Tell me your struggle | 18:00 - 20:30 - Art therapy with Wings and Dreams and Consciousness and Movement
- March 24th | Bordered and Resistance | 18:00 - 20:30 - Textiles and Politics Collective and London Mexico Solidarity: allowing the needle and thread to become a political weapon.
- March 24th | Minga for the migrant woman: The Daughter of the Lagoon | 18:00
All workshops have limited seats. Please RSVP at movjaguar@gmail.com indicating the name of the workshop you wish to participate in. Free entrance (Donations are welcome). This event will be held in Spanish but please let us know if you need any translation for any talk or workshop. Collaborating Organisations: War on Want and Unite. Further Info: Mujeres Generando CambioUnite Union | 128 Theobalds Rd, Holborn WC 1X 8TN
February 24 |Viva México! - Film Screening| 18:30 - 21:30
Viva México! Stories of Struggle and Resistance. Dir. Nicolás Défossé, 120. min (2010) Viva México! brings together the stories of different communities resisting state violence across Mexico, which finally gathered around the Other Campaign (organised by the EZLN and the Zapatista Communities in 2005) to grow autonomy and resistance. Headway East London | Timber Wharf, 238-240 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8AX
January 19th Amnesty International and London Mexico Solidarity:Mexico's Human Rights Crisis and the Zapatista Struggle.Organised by the Kingston - AI group. 8:00PM, New Malden Methodist Church, 49 High Street, New Malden KT3 4BY
2016
November 2nd Gatecrishing the Mexican Embassy's Day of the Dead. Remembering those who the Mexican Government wants to forget
* Ayot2inapa 26th September / 17:30 -19:00.Demonstration: Ayotzinapa Two Years On: Stop Disappearances in Mexico Now! Mexican Embassy in London, 16 St George St, W1S 1FD. Report and photos
* Ayot2inapa 24th September / Time to be confirmed'Mexico's Human Rights Crisis: Enforced Disppearances', a brief talk by FUNDENL, at the British Museum's Great Court, Great Russell St. London, WC1B 3DG
* Ayot2inapa23rd September / 18:00 Watching them Die: The Mexican Army and the 43 Disappeared. Documentary Screening and Discussion by War Resisters International and London Mexico Solidarity. Friends Meeting House, Suite B, 173-177 Euston Rd. £3 suggested donation.
* Ayot2inapa21st September / 18:00Panel Discussion. Disappearances in Mexico: 2 Years After Ayotzinapa. UCL Institute of the Americas. Room 103. FurtherInfo and Registration
* Ayot2inapa6th September / 18:00 - 23:00 Night of Music, Art, Dance & Resistance from MexicoThe Hive, First Floor Cafe, 260-264 Kingsland Rd, London E8 4DG - £3 suggested donation. Fb event:http://goo.gl/pmwVW5
February 2016 "LMS-Plane Stupid Solidarity: building solidarity against ariport expansion":Stop Aviation, Stop Col2nialism, by Plane Stupid in Solidarity with Atenco and Frontline communities fighting airport expansion & Solidarity with Heathrow13, by LMS.
January 20 2016 "Solidarity Meeting with Omar García, from Ayotzinapa - What comes next?" UCLReport and Media Coverage
November 29 2015 Join us in The Wretched of the Earth Bloc at the demonstration for Climate Justice. Colonialism stills, your climate profits kill!!
November 28 2015 LMS at the Latin America Conference Adelante 2015. Presenting Ayotzinapa: A Chronicle of a State Crime. 10:30
October 26 Discussion "Enforced disappearances in Mexico", by LMS and Amanda Hopkins at the University of East Anglia. See LMS' Photos
October 24 Workshop "Zapatistas, The Struggle Against Dispossession", London Anarchist Bookfair 2015.
September 26 Demonstration: One Year On We Are Still Fighting! 14:00 - 18:00 Mexican Embassy in LondonFurther Information
September 22 Panel Discussion: Ayotzinapa One Year After 17:30 - 19:30 University College London, Institute of the Americas, WC1H 0PN Further information
September 18 Workshop "Ayotzinapa, Your Struggle is Our Struggle, with EnglishPEN and StudentsPEN.
September 17 Ayotzinapa: Chronicle of a State Crime: Documentary Screening and Discussion by Alborada London andLondon Mexico Solidarity Director: Xavier Robles , Mexico, 2015. 18:00 - 21:00 SOAS, University of London Penton Rise.Further Information
Enlace Zapatista. Follow the last news and communiqués coming from the Zapatista Communities. Find English, French, Italian, Portuguese and German translations.
On September 26th 2014 students from the teacher-training college of Ayotzinapa, in Guerrero, Mexico, were attacked by police forces whilst being monitored by intelligence agencies of the Mexican army and the federal police. Three students and three bystanders were killed, 40 students were injured and 43 disappeared by the police.
In early September 2015, almost one year later, an international group of independent experts of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights rejected the investigation of the Mexican government into the attack and disappearance of the students, confirming that the 43 students are still disappeared and that the official investigation has to be refocused to include the participation of State agents in the attack and their active role preventing the search for the truth, as a central element
One year after we still demand the return of the 43 students alive, truth and justice, as well as punishment for those responsible for the attack and for the failures in the investigation. Come along to our activities and help us spread the voice of the 43, their relatives and the victims of disappearance in Mexico, which on the last count are around 30 000 people in the last ten years in the context of the so-called "war on drugs".
This September 26 2015, one year after the attack, around 150 people gathered to claim for justice outside the Mexican embassy to the UK. Representatives from different campaigns and people in solidarity expressed their concerns regarding Mexico's human rights crisis and the role the of international community.
Un año después, Londres sigue en solidaridad con Ayotzinapa
Este 26 de septiembre más de 150 personas se reunieron fuera de la embajada de México en Londres para sumarse a las acciones de solidaridad a un año del ataque contra los normalistas de Ayotzinapa y la desaparición forzada de 43 de ellos por el Estado mexicano. Desde las 2 de la tarde se reunieron distintos grupos y ciudadanos tanto mexicanos como de diversas nacionalidades para exigir justicia para las víctimas y castigo a los responsables de este crimen de Estado.
Entre los colectivos y campañas de solidaridad presentes se encontraban London Mexico Solidarity, YoSoy132Londres, Justice Mexico Now, National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts, London Palestine Action, Campaing Against Arms Trade, Movimiento Micaela Bastidas, Spanish and Latin American Poets, London Chile Solidarity, Union of Teachers, así como representantes de la sección para centroamérica de Amnistía Internacional.
Durante cuatro horas, los colectivos y ciudadanos expresaron distintos mensajes de solidaridad en los que resaltaron que a un año de la desaparición forzada de los 43 normalistas, el asesinato de otros tres y de tres personas más, el gobierno mexicano ha intentado cerrar el caso en varias ocasiones, aunque ha fracasado gracias a la lucha de los padres y las madres de los normalistas y a la presión a nivel nacional e internacional.
También destacaron que la desaparición de los 43 es una expresión de la grave crisis de derechos humanos que vive México y, específicamente, del problema de las desapariciones forzadas. Los y las manifestantes portaron los retratos de los 43 normalistas desaparecidos, pero también las fotos de varias generaciones de personas desaparecidas desde finales de los años 60 hasta los y las desaparecidas de la llamada "guerra contra el narcotráfico".
Se leyó, además, la carta que Jeremy Corbyn, parlamentarista inglés y líder del partido laborista dirigió al embajador de México en el Reino Unido, en la que exige que el gobierno mexicano aclare cómo asumirá las recomendaciones del GIEI en su investigación sobre Ayotzinapa.
En la protesta también se señalaron los problemas de la investigación oficial sobre la desaparición de los estudiantes. Asimismo se reflexionó en torno a la importancia de la solidaridad internacional, y se recordó que durante el año 2015, estos grupos han organizado numerosas manifestaciones, proyecciones de películas, foros académicos y encuentros de activistas para difundir la problemática de la desaparición forzada de personas y la crisis de derechos humanos que vive México. Los manifestantes recordaron, además, que en el contexto del año dual "Mexico-Reino Unido" estas acciones han ayudado a mostrar una cara del país que el gobierno quiere ocultar para explotar sus intereses económicos.
Como parte de las acciones en solidaridad con las comunidades zapatistas, también se leyó el último comunicado del EZLN dedicado a los 43 normalistas de Ayotzinapa y a todas las personas cultivando resistencia.