Audio: Tlatelolco, 1968

It's important for me to constantly remember my place in this world, at this moment in time.  I find myself in academia, as a student.  What does being a student mean in the bigger picture?  What does it mean to be an individual constantly seeking knowledge that makes sense to my lived experiences as a first generation immigrant womyn?  What has education done in history, and how has it been repressed?  Today, October 2, marks 45 years since the massacre in Tlatelolco.  In 1968, student movements were breaking out all over the world - including France, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Argentine, Japan and the United States.  The movement in México was short lived.  On Oct 2, 1968, 10 days before the opening of the Summer Olympics IN México City, police officers and military troops shot into a crowd of unarmed students.  Thousands of demonstrators fled in panic as tanks bulldozed over Tlatelolco Plaza.  The Mexican media reported that only 4 students had been injured, the death toll up to this very day, is still unknown. The number of desaparecid@s (people missing) is still unknown. So I continue to ask, what does it mean for a government to plan a massacre, torture dissapearance of students?  What is the power dynamic in that?  Is it a threat to have a educated society, yes.  Is is a threat to have an educated generation of youth, Yes.  Tlatelolco, no se olvida.

Use of audio to recount this story, check out this NPR Radio Diary of Tlatelolco Massacre http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97546687

Archival video footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=Tw2KsKXrF5o&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DTw2KsKXrF5o%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_player&app=desktop