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From Mexico to the world #Yosoy132 (I am 132)
Symbolic occupation and peaceful siege of Televisa’s facilities
Our dreams don’t fit in your screen. 24 hrs of continuous art: music - cinema - dance - sports.
Today we are here, the people of Mexico united.
We are here because the media censors, judges and limits people’s expressions,...
the plurality of opinions and Mexico’s cultural diversity.
We are here because Mexico’s TV monopoly belongs to the Azcárraga family since 1952.
This family’s evident alliance with the political power that maintains inequality...
... has since then betrayed the human right to information.
Throughout our national history, the media have concealed the repression...
that the State has exercised against social movements. The uprisings struggling for the recognition...
... of our people’s dignity, the respect to our land, justice and freedom.
We are here because the content and the people participating in Televisa and TV Azteca...
do not represent our points of view and life-styles.
We are here because seven of the richest men in the country,
Carlos Slim, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, Pedro Aspe, Alberto Bailleres, Germán Larrea, Roberto Hernández y Emilio Azcárraga Jean
control the mass media and the information.
We are here because living in a country with 52 million poor...
... and 7 of the richest men in the world outrages us.
We are here because that group maintains power over our media, using it for their own benefit...
instead of giving voice to the diversity of ideas that coexist in our country.
We are here because the people are not allowed to participate in the narrative of the history that they,...
... men and women, build by themselves.
We are here because the imposition through media is formalised on TV.
We are here because the imposition is forged by soap operas and ads;
... by subtle comments on the news, by the way they are framed, and not on the news itself.
We are here because since 2005, Enrique Pena Nieto (PRI)...
bought Televisa’s favourable coverage of his campaign on the news and TV entertainment shows.
This imposition goes beyond the informative bias.
We are here because the “Televisa Law” approved in 2006 only benefits the Mexican duopoly...
... and disregards the public, communitarian and alternative media.
This condemns them to disappear. Students, workers, teachers, housewives, farmers and peasants, young and old.
We are here because they want us to believe that change is impossible and that we are destined for misery.
We are here because in the political and economic system imposed upon us, we can’t find room for our happiness.
“We want a TV with origami, short-stories, planets; we want a TV with math, with games, with courage...
... We don’t want a TV that bombards us with advertisement, we don’t want a TV that wants to sell, and sell, and sell… ”
National Convention against Imposition. Movements in favour of the truth.