If you live at the north side ( Rogers Park area) in #Chicago, come if you are supporting #Ayotzinapa rural students forced disappeared by the narco state In English: The parallels in the incidents of Ferguson and Ayotzinapa lend themselves to future coordinated actions against the injustices. Firstly, the victims were innocent civilians from unprivileged backgrounds who were brutalized by state actors. Policemen justified the attacks against Brown and Garner by saying they were perceived as threatening. But this is a systemic problem in a country where racism is embedded in a long historical context. It is within this racialized system that African Americans are more likely to be targeted as criminals, and are most vulnerable to violence. Statistics from the United States Census Bureau reveals that 89 percent of victims from extrajudicial killings by policemen in two of the largest cities in the United States, Chicago and New York, are Black citizens. In Mexico, class and vulnerability to violence are also entwined. Just by virtue of having lived in Guerrero, the poorest and most conflict-ridden state in Mexico, the students from Ayotzinapa were at greater risk of violent persecution. The notion that race and class determine an individual’s safety should spur outrage in and of itself. The additional factor of police implication in the violence is especially frightening. As the Mexican and US governments failed to bring a sense of justice to the cases, the protests increased tremendously, in strength and in scope. After grand jury’s decisions not to indict Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo, thousands of US citizens in cities across the nation filled up their streets. While 40 local policemen involved in the Ayotzinapa incident have so far been arrested, Jose Luis Abarca, major of Iguala and highly culpable in this tragedy, was only convicted on minor charges. Protesters on both sides of the border expressed fierce indignation towards these incidents and the unfair judicial systems that have failed to account for the guilty actors. brownpoliticalreview.org/2014/12/from-ayotzinapa-to-ferguson/
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:54:14 +0000
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