¿Cómo se alimenta la violencia?

Las respuestas que gobierno y sociedad buscan a la terrible situación que desde hace algunos años se vive en México no deberían pasar por seguir alimentando la espiral de violencia.

Más armas siempre significarán más seres humanos y más familias destrozadas.

Denuncias anónimas, ejército patrullando la ciudad, incremento de medidas de "seguridad" no sirven de nada si el dinero y las armas para el crimen siguen fluyendo con naturalidad.

¿Por qué la "guerra" contra el narco sólo se concentra en operativos policiaco-militares?, ¿por qué no escuchamos noticias sobre cuentas bancarias congeladas a empresarios que permiten que se lave dinero en su negocio?, ¿por qué no se detiene el tráfico de armas de los Estados Unidos en la frontera?

¿Por qué no se crean programas de desarrollo para jóvenes que les permitan abrazar una esperanza de vida con mayor bienestar?, ¿por qué la obsesión de privilegiar la alternativa violenta a la resolución de un conflicto social?

The Role of the Mexican Military in the Cartel War

By Stephen Meiners and Fred Burton

U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske is in the middle of a four-day visit this week to Mexico, where he is meeting with Mexican government officials to discuss the two countries’ joint approach to Mexico’s ongoing cartel war. In prepared remarks at a July 27 press conference with Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora, Kerlikowske said Washington is focused on reducing drug use in the United States, supporting domestic law enforcement efforts against drug traffickers and working with other countries that serve as production areas or transshipment points for U.S.-bound drugs.

More here (Stratfor Global Intelligence)

High School Student Appeals to NAACP President

High School Student Appeals to NAACP President

June 17, 2009

Benjamin Jealous, President and CEO, NAACP

Dear Mr. Jealous:

My name is Iliana C. I am an intern at “The World Can't Wait,” a national anti-war organization. I recently found out that you hosting the “Army Strong” military recruiters at your 2009 NAACP celebration in New York City the weekend of July 11th.

It is unacceptable that the NAACP, which has historically played such an important role in the struggle for racial equality and human rights, would encourage Black youth to join the military which will turn them into war criminals and cannon fodder for these racist, unjust wars.

Just because we have a president who is African-American, we cannot be sucked into the sugar-coated hypocrisy that the United States is spreading democracy and freedom to the Middle East by murdering, bombing, torturing and terrorizing the countries and the people who live there. For instance, since Obama became president US air strikes have killed hundreds of Afghani and Pakistani civilians, including women and children.

Despite what Obama says, the escalating war in Afghanistan is not the "good" war. It is the same war that started under President Bush, and it is for the same reasons. I demand to know why you are allowing recruiters to come to your celebration. This war goes against NAACP's whole vision of "ensur(ing) a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination" (NAACP vision).

If you want that kind of world you have to fight for it on a global scale, not from only a national perspective. American lives are NOT worth more than Iraqi or Afghani lives! If we truly want to end racism, and ensure a future where all men and women are equal, we must stop thinking like Americans and start thinking about humanity.

I strongly suggest you cancel the military recruiters at your celebration. Please contact me or “The World Can’t Wait” at 866-973-4463.

Sincerely, Iliana C

New York City High School Student


SIGN a letter to the NAACP asking it to dis-invite military recruiters from the 2009 NAACP Convention.

Detenciones-provocaciones para reventar una marcha

Calderón militariza a sus hijos

Urge crear la figura del Defensor del Menor en México para que este tipo de cosas no sucedan. La imagen es sorprendente, de verdad, anacrónica y anti-pedagógica.

"Cuando cada vez más, se admite que la seguridad depende más de la gestión de variables como los derechos humanos, el equilibrio medioambiental y la justicia social, creer -todavía- en esquemas de seguridad basados en conceptos de defensa militar es totalmente caduco. Y querer introducir esta visión en los centros de enseñanza, es completamente absurdo y anti-educativo".
Fundació per la Pau

¿En verdad creemos que con el fomento del militarismo en el país se resolverán los problemas que tenemos?

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