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Mexico’s Soy 132 Movement joins forces with Occupy Wall Street to protest Carlos Slim

September 14, 2014August 17, 2012 by Marisa Trevino

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN? In less than three months, the Mexican youth movement Yo Soy 132 (I am 132) has undergone a remarkable evolution. Beginning as a protest against Institutional Revolutionary Party presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto at the privately-run Ibero-American University in Mexico City on May 11, the movement has since grown by leaps and bounds. …

Mexico’s 30-day lesson in democracy

September 14, 2014June 24, 2012 by Marta Molina

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN On June 10, at 11:30 in the morning, Mexico City’s Zócalo Plaza began to fill with people wearing creative outfits and carrying posters and signs. Yo Soy 132 academics, Yo Soy 132 artists, the “free journalists 132” and everyday citizens — retirees, children, mothers and entire families — arrived from every corner …

A Mexican Spring begins to blossom

September 14, 2014June 9, 2012 by Marta Molina

Student protesters in Mexico City holding signs, "Estudiantes Informados Jamás Manipulados #YOSOY132"

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN(?) In Mexico City’s daily life — in the shops, taxicabs, cafes and lines waiting for the bus — one could hear conversations between people of all ages saying that Enrique Peña Nieto would, without a doubt, win the presidential elections. “Either something huge will happen,” a taxi driver told me, “or he …