http://juarezpeaceproject.org/
Take some time to read.
![theatlantic:
In Mexico, Growing Popular Movement Calls for End to Drug War
Sicilia’s son, 24-year-old Juan Francisco, was killed with six friends on March 28 in the city of Cuernavaca, where the Sicilias lived and which was until recently a peaceful town known for its artists. The young men had a dispute with members of a narco gang in a local bar. When they left, they were abducted and strangled. Shortly after, Sicilia announced that he no longer has poetry within him. He has since came to lead a popular movement against the drug war, beginning with a demonstration in Cuernavaca, then a rally attended by tens of thousands in the capital, and now this latest, daring caravan to the northern border. He and his loose coalition of activist groups cast their movement as civil resistance aimed at reforming the corrupt police, courts, and political elites that, Sicilia argues, doomed the militarized drug war strategy from the moment President Felipe Calderon rushed into it in late 2006.
Read more at The Atlantic
[Thomas Bravo/Reuters]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmqic7ubtl1qcokc4o1_1280.jpg)
In Mexico, Growing Popular Movement Calls for End to Drug War
Sicilia’s son, 24-year-old Juan Francisco, was killed with six friends on March 28 in the city of Cuernavaca, where the Sicilias lived and which was until recently a peaceful town known for its artists. The young men had a dispute with members of a narco gang in a local bar. When they left, they were abducted and strangled. Shortly after, Sicilia announced that he no longer has poetry within him. He has since came to lead a popular movement against the drug war, beginning with a demonstration in Cuernavaca, then a rally attended by tens of thousands in the capital, and now this latest, daring caravan to the northern border. He and his loose coalition of activist groups cast their movement as civil resistance aimed at reforming the corrupt police, courts, and political elites that, Sicilia argues, doomed the militarized drug war strategy from the moment President Felipe Calderon rushed into it in late 2006.
Read more at The Atlantic
[Thomas Bravo/Reuters]
From @amadorlicea:
Hundreds of mexicans welcoming #CaravanaMX for peace and justice waiting to be signed #PACTONACIONAL yfrog.com/kgigoj
We are watching this march for peace led by poet Javier Sicilia (#CaravanaMX) closely since Monday’s new Fault Lines episode is all about Juarez’s drug war and its effects on the community.
