August 30: International Day of the Disappeared

In Your Community and Everywhere
A Day to Remember, A Day to Take Action

In solidarity with the international call from the Association of Families of the Disappeared and Victims of Violations of Human Rights in Mexico(AFADEM), and by the Latin American Federation of Associations of Families
of Disappeared Detainees (FEDEFAM)...

We of the Solidarity Without Borders Delegation call upon groups in the United States to participate in August 30, as a day of remembrance and a day of action for those disappeared and those detained.

As repression rises across the United States against immigrant communities and communities of color...

As political prisoners continue to struggle for freedom behind bars, and as more dissidents are taken captive as “terrorists” under the pretext of homeland security...

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) imposes a reign of terror with raids, roundups, deportations, detentions and disappearances...

As the government strips detainees of their rights from Guantanamo to Iraq to Black Sites across the globe...

As private corporations, multinationals and security contractors profit from every detention, disappearance, and incarceration, from our communities to occupied territories abroad...

As the US exports this repression globally to serve and protect its corporate interests, to enforce its capitalist agenda on the world...

As the US sponsors state and paramilitary violence against people’s movements in Mexico, such as the Zapatistas in Chiapas and the popular struggles in Oaxaca...

As the US continues its 30-year campaign to silence those who resist in Latin America, from Plan Colombia to Plan Mexico and on to the Security and Prosperity Partnership...

As occupying forces continue to disappear thousands of people from their homes and streets in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Haiti, and beyond...

As those who commit these crimes against humanity have never been brought to justice, and as impunity reigns in the halls of power...

Those commemorating Black August, in memory of the freedom fighters.

Those still struggling in New Orleans and beyond on the anniversary of Katrina.

Those mobilizing for political prisoners and for immigrant rights at the DNC and those mobilizing against the RNC.

Those struggling every day in their communities and behind bars.

Freedom to All Political Prisoners!
Appearance of the Disappeared!
Not One More Raid! Not One More Deportation!
Not One More Detention! Not One More Murder!

A March of Silence?
A Disappear-In? Direct Action Street Theatre?
An action at your local Detention Center?
An act of solidarity around the DNC or RNC?
A display of the faces and names of those disappeared or detained in your community?
A dialogue or forum with the families and communities hit hardest by repression?
Building local coalitions, supporting existing movements of resistance in your community?
It´s up to you...

EDUCATE. AGITATE. ORGANIZE.

For Our Dead and Disappeared
Not a Moment of Silence But a Lifetime of Struggle!

From Oaxaca, Mexico in struggle,

Solidarity Without Borders Delegation