See message below and attached flier. Please forward widely.
Protest,
Saturday, June 18
Solidarity
with
Mexican Teachers
For the last month, ever since May 15, Mexican
teachers of the National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers (CNTE)
have
been on strike against “reforms” that would gut public education and destroy
independent teachers unions. Schools are shut down in the southern states of
Chiapas, Oaxaca and Guerrero. Tens of thousands have marched repeatedly in
support of the insurgent teachers. Parents have shown massive support.
Strikers and their supporters are braving repression
by the murderous government that massacred and disappeared the 43 Ayotzinapa
teachers college students. Clouds of tear gas have not stopped marchers in
Chiapas. When the government last weekend arrested top leaders of the CNTE’s
militant Section 22 in Oaxaca and attacked protest encampments, barricades went
up . When 4,000 gendarmes were dispatched to the state, thousands of teachers
and parents blocked their way. When cops attacked in southern Oaxaca early
Thursday, the blockades were quickly restored.
Mexican teachers are fighting against policies
dictated by the international financial agencies, carried out by the government
of President Enrique Peña Nieto, and backed the three main bourgeois parties
(PRI-PAN-PRD). In the U.S. the same policies of punitive teacher evaluations,
standardized student testing and privatization are pushed by the Democratic
Obama administration and top capitalists, including Bill Gates and the owners
of
Wal-Mart.
The Mexican government has already announced the
firing of thousands of these courageous educators. In New York, teacher strikes
are prohibited by the Taylor Law. Mexican teachers need our support. Their
fight
is our fight!
Demonstrate
Stop
Repression of Mexican Teachers!
Saturday,
June 18, 4 p.m.
Outside
the Mexican Consulate, 27 East 39th Street, Manhattan
Called by the Internationalist Group, Class Struggle
Education Workers and CUNY Internationalist Clubs
For more
information, call (212) 460-0983
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160618 Solildarity with Mexican teachers lflt.pdf
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