Ayotzinapa: Chronicle of a State Crime

Ayotzinapa: Chronicle of a State Crime

September 26, 2015

When: Saturday, September 26th 1pm – Events begin 2pm – Screening of “Ayotzinapa: Chronicle of a State Crime” 3:30pm – Live music Where: Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham Street, Toronto 5pm – Procession to Alexandra Park (275 Bathurst St) 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. Co-sponsored by Amnesty International, the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, Common Frontiers, the Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, and We Are All Mexico, Centre for Social Justice, Socialist Project | Facebook event