More than 100 students joined faculty and staff at a march and teach-in calling for action in Mexico over the disappearance and presumed death of 43 student-teachers who were abducted en route to a protest against that nation’s government in September.
During the teach-in, Rubén Martínez, LMU’s Fletcher Jones Professor in Literature and Writing, asked the audience for a show of hands from those who had family in Mexico: almost two-thirds raised their hands. “You see?” said Martínez. “Mexico is not that far away from us.”
“This is putting the university’s mission into action,” said Martínez, who helped organize the teach-in, which was co-sponsored by Ethnic & Intercultural Services and the Center for Service and Action. “I’m very gratified by the turnout today. We didn’t have much time and this is a busy part of the semester, but our students care about social justice, here and in faraway places.”