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Massacres in Guerrero, Mexico - Solidarity Mtg. in Sacramento

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From: Dr. Jai Maharaj
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 00:00
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In the article <40indq$rn2@news.missouri.edu>,
bearing the date and time 12 Aug 1995 17:12:26 UTC,
alexdemo@aol.com (Alex Demo) wrote:
:
: Please forward this message about news conference and solidarity
: meeting with the courageous campesinos and indigenous poor of
: Guerrero who are under siege in various rural areas.  August 14,
: 1955 events are in Sacramento, CA and organized by human rights
: groups in conjunction with North Americans for Democracy in Mexico.
: E-mail us at:  AlexDemo@aol.com
: 
: Gracias y Viva la Democracia en Mexico!
: 
: MESSAGE TEXT:
: 
: Guerrero Mexico  A government killing its own people.  35
: Campesinos Murdered by police forcesA survivor of one massacre in
: Guerrero comes to Sacramento to urge U.S. citizens to demand that
: President Ernesto Zedillo end the spiralling human rights abuses.
: With $20 billion U.S. taxpayer dollars on the way to Mexico's
: banks, corporations, and the Zedillo government, why are human
: rights and due process not important to the White House or our
: congressional representatives?
:  
: Monday,
: August 14, 1995
: News Conference at 10:30 am
: La Raza Galeria Posada
: 7th & O Streets
:  
: Community Reception in the Evening
: Sierra Curtis Community Center, Room 9
: 2791 -24th Street, Sacramento. 1 miles south of Broadway.
: 5:30 to 7:00 pm. Public Invited.
:  
: North Americans for Democracy in Mexico welcomes you to participate
: in the community events planned to increase our contact and
: solidarity with Mexico.  Meet Andres Rosales Aguirre and listen to
: his story of the massacre, what he saw, and how he survived to now
: tell the world.
: 
: 1995 -- in the state of Guerrero in Mexico, a rural-area shooting
: of 22 campesinos, relatives and farmworkers alike, by a force of
: state police.  The assault that occurred near the municipio of
: Coyuca de Benitez, was deadly as 17 farmworkers were killed and 5
: seriously wounded.  In the weeks prior, Andres Rosales Aguirre and
: other farmworkers were similarly attacked in Cutzmala.  He escaped
: with only serious injuries.  35 largely indigenous campesinos have
: been murdered in four separate incidents.  It's important to hear
: Mr. Rosales Aguirre's account.  Rosales, along with Guerrero State
: Congresswoman, Guadalupe Eguiluz, and history professor, Martin
: Mora, will describe the tragic events.  We should know that
: Mexicans throughout the country are protesting the alleged
: involvement of Guerrero's governor, Ruben Figueroa.  The Bishop of
: Zamora has publically called for the prosecution of high-placed
: gov't. officials responsible for planning the assaults.  The U.S.
: public should also know that both Congresswoman Eguiluz and Prof.
: Mora have received death threats in Mexico.  The delegation is
: visiting several California cities.
: 
: Join the international human rights protests for Mexico's Pres.
: Zedillo to STOP THE MASSACRE!
:  
: North Americans for Democracy in Mexico (NADM)
: PO Box 188031, Sacramento, CA 95818  (916) 446-3021
 
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From: jai@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj)
Subject: Massacres in Guerrero, Mexico - Solidarity Mtg. in Sacramento
Date: 1995/08/12
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