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UMD PHENOM Event: “Where are the 43?” Students, The State, and Justice in Mexico
December 2, 2014 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
On Tuesday, December 2nd at noon in the Unity House @ UMass Dartmouth:
On September 26, 2014, forty three students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College went missing in Iguala, Mexico. They had been participants in a protest against the Mexican government for its discriminatory employment and funding polices.
“Where are the 43?”
Students, The State, and Justice in Mexico
Featuring:
Angeles Ortuño López, Human Rights Lawyer, Representative of Victoria Diez Human Rights Center (Mexico)
Victor Salas Montenegro, General Secretary, STIMACH, Authentic Labor Front, (Frente Auténtico de Trabajo) (Mexico)
This event is sponsored by: Community Economic Development Center, Dept. of Crime and Justice Studies, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, UMass Dartmouth Arnold M. Dubin Labor Education Center, and United Electrical Workers NE Region
For more information, please contact Andriana (afoiles@umassd.edu) or Colleen (cavedikian@umassd.edu).