The Radio Bilingüe Network, KPOO FM San Francisco, and Rompeviento TV will convene and broadcast/webcast a town hall meeting to hear the first-hand gripping story of parents of the 43 missing students from Mexico’s Ayotzinapa Rural University, an act of mass disappearance at the hands of police that’s being called the worst atrocity in Mexico in years.
Stopping in San Francisco on a tour through Pacific Coast cities, the group including two parents, one surviving student and his brother, and a professor from Ayotzinapa will meet with the community on Saturday April 4th from 4 to 6 PM PDT in the auditorium of Buena Vista Horace Mann School, 3351 23rd Street in San Francisco’s Mission District.
The Ayotzinapa visitors include Blanca Luz Nava Vélez, mother of a disappeared student; Estanislao Mendoza Chocolate, father of a disappeared student; Angel Neri de la Cruz Ayala, student and survivor of the attacks; Josimar de la Cruz Ayala, activist and brother of survivor; and Cruz Bautista Salvador, professor at the college.
The stop in San Francisco is part of a national U.S. caravan (#Caravan43, Caravan43.com) targeting three regions and culminating in Washington, DC to bring the faces of this state-sanctioned human rights atrocity before U.S. witnesses six months after the mass disappearance.
Media partners for the town hall meeting and broadcast include Hecho en California 1010 AM in San Francisco; KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley, and KBBF 89.1 FM in Santa Rosa. They will provide a live broadcast service for the San Francisco Bay Area.
A number of community groups are joining the forum as co-sponsors. They include United Educators of San Francisco.
The Radio Bilingüe Latino Public Radio Network will provide a live national broadcast as well as audio streaming (radiobilingue.org); public radio station KPOO 89.5 FM will air the forum live for San Francisco Bay Area audiences and webcast it on kpoo.com; and Rompeviento TV, an online TV platform based in Mexico City, will stream video live on rompeviento.tv.
