NACLA Event: When Governments Kill Their Students - A Public Teach-In on Mexico Now

NACLA Events

UPCOMING EVENT

Public Teach-In on Mexico Now: “When Governments Kill their Students”

When: December 10, 4:30-9pm

Where: Kimmel Center Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, 60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor, New York University, New York 

Scholars, artists, students, activists, and the public will gather in a Teach-In to explore the current crisis in México––and the role that U.S. policy has played in its creation.

Invited participants include Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir, The Illuminator Collective, Greg Grandin, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Gerardo Renique, Diana Taylor, Christy Thornton, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Isabel Gil Everaert, Rossana Reguillo, Antonio Zúñiga, Juan Carlos Ruiz, Roberto Lovato, Marcial Godoy-Anativia, and others.

This event is free and open to the public. Come, participate, and together, let's build cross-border networks of solidarity.

Schedule:

4:30 pm Assembly at Washington Square Arch
5 pm Procession through Washington Square Park into Teach-In
5–9 pm Teach-in at Eisner Auditorium in NYU’s Kimmel Center
9 pm Outdoor participatory projections with The Illuminator

Kimmel Center at New York University
Eisner & Lubin Auditorium*
60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10012
*This is a wheelchair accessible venue

The teach-in will be LIVESTREAMED. To view the live video feed click here: http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/hny-video

This event is co-sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics, the Critical Tactics Lab (CTL), the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU, and the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).

 

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