Bush Invades Mexico
A Didactic Dance and Theater Work
No Passport DREAMING THE AMERICAS
Bush Invades Mexico
A Didactic Dance and Theater Work
No Passport DREAMING THE AMERICAS
conference at CUNY Grad Center, New York City
Martin Siegal Theater
February 22, 2008
Conceived and Directed by
Harry J. Bubbins with Michael Schenker
Choreography by Sabine Heubusch (www.spinelight.com)
Dancers Corn/Zapatistas
Anna Adler, Simone Coonrod, Sabine Heubusch,
Anna Mc Hugh, Shiwa Noh, Daniella Peltekova
Actors
Smiley Face: Harry J. Bubbins
Uncle Sam: Marilyn Eire
Brad Will: Roman Redhawk Perez Firestarter
Mexico: . Armchairista:
Slide Projection: Firefly
Audio: Thanks to Brad Will & Glassbead Collective
Video by: Amy Wolf and Brandon Jordan
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Plan Mexico was hatched by Presidents
Bush and Calderon without any consultation from th
Plan Mexico was hatched by Presidents
Bush and Calderon without any consultation from the US or Mexican
congresses.
Officially known as the Merida Initiative, Plan Mexico,is immediately
likened to the failures and violence of Plan Colombia that has led to an
increase in human rights violations and cocaine production.
Stopping Plan Mexico has been named by the Center for International
Policy as one of the top three challenges to protect attempts to build more
just and peaceful societies in Latin America.
The United Steelworkers came out against it in November and issued a
statement demanding public hearings about it after
the police crackdowns on miners in Mexico last week.
Plan Mexico would provide $1.5 billion in US Taxpayer monies and equipment
to the Mexican military, police, and intelligence services.
None of the aid contemplated in this first package of a proposed 3 year
deal goes where it's most needed: addiction
prevention and rehabilitation in America, and local development financing in
mMxico.
Sending equipment to the Mexican police and military in the context
of unprosecuted human rights violations encourages impunity.
Is this what Americans want our government to do with our tax money?
Increased surveillance, secret police and paramilitary activities endangers the civil liberties of the general population at
risk, especially activists, union leaders, indigenous peoples.
The invasion by U.S. military companies such as Blackwater, and direct U.S.
involvement in Mexican military would lead to a client state relationship
that compromises Mexican national sovereignty and would lead to increased U.S.
interventionist and even imperial foreign policy.
This "security" initiative is proposed in the context of opening up the Mexican economy to further
privatization and exploitation by multinational corporations.
Plan Mexico, emphasizes interdiction and as such expands the failed drug war in Colombia. Yet, a study conducted by the conservative RAND Drug Policy Research Center
for the U.S. Army ... found that treatment is 10 times more cost effective
than interdiction...".
Plan Mexico imagines anti-terrorist measures to confront an international
threat that does not exist in Mexico, and would reinterpret
migration as organized crime.
Mexico needs and deserves U.S. support, in the form of fair trade agreements which prioritize labor, indigenous and other human rights & environmental protections; Instead our government sends jobs oversees where Mexican workers and farmers rights are abused under rapacious free trade that
reduces wages and decimates the environment. The proposal to expand militarization of Mexican society is a step in the wrong direction.
Plan Mexico is a dangerous ploy by the Bush administration to intervene in
the affairs of Mexico for decades to come, while ignoring the need to create good paying jobs at home.
Tell Congress to Stop Plan Mexico.
(The above text is not the exact final version of the video clip.)
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