On Friday June 26, 2015 Vancouver
activists gathered at the Vancouver Art
Gallery to once again demand justice for
the 43 missing Mexican students from
Ayotzinapa. June 2015 marks 9 months
since their disappearance on September
26, 2014. Organized by the Vancouver
Solidarity with Ayotzinapa Collective,
the program included greetings from
Thomas Davies of Fire This Time, Victor
Pardo of URNG-MAIZ (Unidad
Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca)
and Alison Bodine
of Vancouver
Communities in
Solidarity with Cuba.
A powerful letter
was read from the
Honourable Students
Executive Committee
"Ricardo Flores
Magon" of the Rural
Teachers School "Raúl
Isidro Burgos" in
Ayotzinapa.
The letter was read in
Spanish by Manelik
and in English by
Alison Bodine, part
of the letter explained,
"The 560 students
who are still standing
firm and strong in
our combative Rural
Teachers School "Raúl
Isidro Burgos" of
Ayotzinapa, Guerrero.
We want to tell you,
thank you very much.
Because even though
small, our light will be
a form of embracing all
those who are missing
today and those who
suffer from their
absence. May this light
show that we are not
alone in the pain and
rage that dresses the
floor of the Mexico
from below."
Organizers chanted,
explained the case
to people walking by
and drew chalk art to
illustrate that "We are
all Aytozinapa! Somos
todos Aytozinapa!
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