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Displays of portraits
Displaying portraits in a public space, often paired with a vigil or similar event
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Parents Protest Childrens' Disappearance
On September 26, 2014 a political rally in the town of Iguala, Mexico ended with six people dead and 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Teachers’ College disappeared into police vans. The students from Ayotzinapa were there to protest against discriminatory hiring practices for teachers and to raise money for a planned trip to Mexico City to mark the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre.Every month, on the 26th, their parents trek nearly 200 miles each way to Mexico City to continue to protest and demand information. On the anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students, many people took to the streets and voiced their outrage through street art, posters, and creating of unique, traditional Mexican masks. Protestors have created portraits portraying the faces of the missing 43 to ensure their faces will not be forgotten. More than 40,000 other people in Mexico are registered as disappeared, widely attributed to the country’s drug war. The remains of four students were found but six years later there is still very little information about what happened, the reason behind the attack and abduction or where the remaining 39 students are.
Tactic Categories:
Acts of Expression
Protest/Appeal
Medium of Things
Two-Dimensional Arts and Materials
Coercive &
Persuasive
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