We are fed up! No Mas Sangre – No More Blood

We are fed up! No Mas Sangre – No More Blood

Monday May 9, Noon Civic Square, Wellington.

Parallel event to support those living in Mexican War In solidarity, we call for Peace! NO MAS SANGRE – NO MORE BLOOD

Poet and journalist Javier Sicilia, whose son, Juan Francisco, was brutally murdered together with six other young Mexicans, called a march in Cuernavaca last month.

The multiple assassinations have moved the country and helped reject the official discourse that most of the deaths attributed to the recent war have been only criminals. 50,000 people took to the streets and demonstrated peacefully.

“You call them collateral damage, we called them friends”, a banner said. They fixed plaques on public squares with the names of innocent people killed in the war declared by President Felipe Calderon and supported by the U.S.A., in which nearly 40,000 people have died for no reason since 2006.

According to official figures, more than 150 mass graves have been found with more than 750 bodies scattered throughout 22 different states. A considerable amount of these belong to Central American immigrants trying to reach “the American dream”.

However, corpses are unrecognizable and it is difficult to write accurate numbers in this genocide-like history. “The majority of the deaths are young people - our young people and they are killing them”, Javier explained.

Moreover, about 60,000 children have become orphans. The so-called “huerfanos narcos”, the forgotten, must be looked after! Now, Javier is calling for a National march on Sunday May 8 in the main square of Mexico City.

The movement has grown beyond borders and demonstrations have been scheduled in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Canada, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, U.K. and U.S.A.

Join us at 12 pm at the Civic Centre in Wellington, NZ.

We express our solidarity, our pain, our connection to all the families in Mexico who have suffered the violence, the displacement, the lack of justice, the militarization, the war against drugs and against citizens, the indifference and lies about so many civilian lives trapped in a war that does not finish until the people say: NO MORE BLOOD, WE ARE FED UP! – ESTAMOS HASTA LA MADRE!

Jorge Herrera

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