In recent days, more youth from the teacher-training school in Ayotzinapa have been killed, and more protesters at Standing Rock attacked, among them, one of the speakers. Mexico’s genocide counts 150,000 dead in the past eight years. In North America, yesterday, the same forces of destruction that set attack dogs on pregnant women and children, maced and tear-gassed journalists, firing rubber bullets point blank at peaceful protesters defending Indigenous lands and waters.
This event is sponsored by the Chiapas Support Committee, Scripps Humanities Institute, Scripps Latin American Studies, HBA Humanities Chair Fund, Gender, Feminist and Sexuality Studies, Scripps History, Scripps Spanish and Latin American Cultures, Clark and Harper Lecture Funds