Photographic call for solidarity with victims of Iguala

Vivos ©Marcelo Brodsky, Buenos Aires, 2014

Tlachinollan, Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña the Latinstock Foundation and Human Rights Organizations organizations in Latin America call for an international visual action in solidarity with the victims of kidnapping and murder that happened last September in Iguala, Estado de Guerrero, Mexico.

The visual campaign seeks photographers and groups of students who will pose for a picture with a sign reading in order to express world wide sympathy and support_for the missing students and their parents in their stuggle to pursue justice and truth for this brutal and unimaginable act of violence against unarmed young students. The sign reading will send a message for Truth and Justice to prevail in Mexico. The production of the sign should be made by the students so this becomes an educational experience in the production of images for a social and solidarity purpose.

The students and social organizations of Mexico will receive these images and distribute them around the country, in the social networks and in contact with the Mexican Human Rights Organizations such as Tlachinollan, that represents the families of the victims and other Photography and Human Rights organizations in Mexico. For them, this support is essential to strengthen their fight for justice and the respect for Human Rights, a struggle that will gain for them the support of sensible people around the world

The brutality against a group of 43 rural students of the Teachers Rural School Isidro Burgos of Ayotzinapa conducted by the Mexican state of Guerrero and its police in collusion with drug lords of that state , mark an elevated level of violence and horror exerted on Mexican people. This requires an immediate action in Mexico and around the world so that the truth is known and Mexicans can move ahead in the implementation of real justice in this case. World wide support as manifested in this campaign will give moral, public, and powerful support to the seekers of justice and truth in this case.

For more information, go to www.facebook.com/visualaction or to www.visualaction.org.

Apoyo/Support

Andhes Asociacion de abogados de Tucuman http://andhes.org.ar/
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires/Universidad de Buenos Aires http://www.cnba.uba.ar/
Centre de la Photographie, Genève, Suiza www.centrephotogeneve.ch
Fotofest, Houston, USA www.fotofest.org/
Estudio Madalena, Sao Paulo, Brasil estudiomadalena.com.br/
Autograph, London, UK www. autograph-abp.co.uk
Drik Picture Agency, Dhaka, Bangladesh www.drik.net
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago de Chile www.museodelamemoria.cl/
Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina www.parquedelamemoria.org.ar
Photograhic Museum of Humanity www.phmuseum.com
Museo de la Memoria de Rosario, Argentina www.museodelamemoria.gob.ar
Familiares de Desaparecidos y Detenidos por razones Politicas, Argentina www.desaparecidos.org/familiares/
FAC Fundaciòn de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay facmvd.blogspot.com/
Fundacion Infoto, Tucumàn, Argentina www.fundacion.infoto.com.ar
EMAHO Magazine, India www.emahomagazine.com
ECCHR European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Berlin, Alemania www.ecchr.eu ,
Lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia www.lugaradudas.org