Daniela Sofia Galeana Gaspar, Grade 11
UWC ISAK Japan
Standing on a podium, adrenaline, pride and what seems to be their last breath up for a bet of us against them. A game of all for all, a team with players brave enough to step up. Strength and insurance are the only things that will determine their faith, silver or plome.
October 2nd will not be forgotten. We chant as people raise their glasses in honour of those that once made history. The Olympics were not the only thing happening that heavy fall of 1968 back in Mexico. The student movement gained strength as more people stepped out of the classroom to fight with their classmates to secure education as a right and not a battlefield of pride and honour.
Funny enough, it all started with a game. Before students turned into martyrs, they played for different teams. Both from the two biggest houses of study in Mexico. Their anger and compromise for their studies sparked a real war, but it wasn't one univerisity against the other anymore.
The precary conditions that this students had to endure in order to have an education where indignating. Their anger in the field was taken to the steps of the national palace and days after they walked as a a single group to the Hall of three cultures, a place of great social, economic and political importance. With them they carried a message, their demands to former president and traitor to the people, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. They knew what would most likely happen, the Mexican government is not known for its civility. Specially during Ordaz’s governance, with Luis Echeverria as his right hand man, intellectually guilty for the brutal killing of students, October 2nd of 1968.
At 10 am in the morning troops arrived at the hall. An operation known as Ballon Galeana. But Even when the military began to kill and turture them with no apparent reason, every single student kept their promise of maintaining their fight nonviolent. The biggest demonstration of their strength. Uplifting their message, thus making their demands louder than ever. It was called the massacre of Tlatelolco.
Their deaths meant something, and although it's a slow fight, their message is still heard. The challenges they overcame by demonstrating the strength of a non-violent fight and showcasing to the entire nation the importance of education will not be forgotten. One by one their demands are changing the game, reshaping the Mexican education system for a brighter and safer future where students get to raise their voice without the fear of death.
Their legacy remains in our classrooms and our hearts. October 2nd we remember the there's no place for immunity in our future; Gustavo Diaz Ordaz and Luis Echeveria died freeman, that unity makes strength, that our demands matter, that the government+not need to change. We remember we have a voice and a right to make it heared, we remember the need for non-violence. October 2nd we rember what those students overcame for Mexico and what we have yet to overcome.
Image credit: https://pin.it/52TY5V7
October 2nd will not be forgotten. We chant as people raise their glasses in honour of those that once made history. The Olympics were not the only thing happening that heavy fall of 1968 back in Mexico. The student movement gained strength as more people stepped out of the classroom to fight with their classmates to secure education as a right and not a battlefield of pride and honour.
Funny enough, it all started with a game. Before students turned into martyrs, they played for different teams. Both from the two biggest houses of study in Mexico. Their anger and compromise for their studies sparked a real war, but it wasn't one univerisity against the other anymore.
The precary conditions that this students had to endure in order to have an education where indignating. Their anger in the field was taken to the steps of the national palace and days after they walked as a a single group to the Hall of three cultures, a place of great social, economic and political importance. With them they carried a message, their demands to former president and traitor to the people, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. They knew what would most likely happen, the Mexican government is not known for its civility. Specially during Ordaz’s governance, with Luis Echeverria as his right hand man, intellectually guilty for the brutal killing of students, October 2nd of 1968.
At 10 am in the morning troops arrived at the hall. An operation known as Ballon Galeana. But Even when the military began to kill and turture them with no apparent reason, every single student kept their promise of maintaining their fight nonviolent. The biggest demonstration of their strength. Uplifting their message, thus making their demands louder than ever. It was called the massacre of Tlatelolco.
Their deaths meant something, and although it's a slow fight, their message is still heard. The challenges they overcame by demonstrating the strength of a non-violent fight and showcasing to the entire nation the importance of education will not be forgotten. One by one their demands are changing the game, reshaping the Mexican education system for a brighter and safer future where students get to raise their voice without the fear of death.
Their legacy remains in our classrooms and our hearts. October 2nd we remember the there's no place for immunity in our future; Gustavo Diaz Ordaz and Luis Echeveria died freeman, that unity makes strength, that our demands matter, that the government+not need to change. We remember we have a voice and a right to make it heared, we remember the need for non-violence. October 2nd we rember what those students overcame for Mexico and what we have yet to overcome.
Image credit: https://pin.it/52TY5V7
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