Amy Goodman
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Father of Missing Mexican Student Speaks Out as U.S. Protesters Stage Day of Action Against Drug War
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December 3, 2014
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12:54Now PlayingProtests at federal buildings in at least 43 U.S. cities today will call for halting American aid to military and police forces in Mexico until human rights abuses are addressed. Organizers in the United States are working with the grassroots movement in Mexico triggered by the disappearance of 43 students in September. Protesters are using the hashtag #UStired2 the Englishlanguage counterpart to the hashtag #YaMeCansé, a campaign in Mexico to protest state violence and human rights abuses. U.S. military and security aid to Mexico totals more than $3 billion since 2008. We are joined by two guestsClemente Rodriguez, whose 19yearold son Cristian Alfonso Rodriguez is one of the 43 missing students; and Roberto Lovato, a writer and visiting scholar at the U.C. Berkeley Center for Latino Policy Research, and one of the organizers behind the #UStired2 initiative.
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