Stop "Plan Mexico"! Public Service Announcement, 3.5 minutes

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friendsofbradwill
January 29, 2008

Concept and produced by: Harry Bubbins, with voice by Anna McHugh (hoopergirl.com) and Erin Mc Hugh. Text and language thanks also to: Laura Carlsen of the Americas Program at the Center for International Policy, and also to Witness for Peace.

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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historyscoper (6 months ago) Show Hide

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The U.S. and Mexico have a great future - together. Google "Megamerge Dissolution Solution" to see how.

lilirojo (9 months ago) Show Hide

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Estos planes de supuesta ayuda , es la manera mas infame de los EE UU tiene para empobrecernos y asesinarnos.

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joeloi (11 months ago) Show Hide

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im calling it fake cause at 0:25 soldiers are shown with ak-102 and Mexico doesn't use slavshit.

NarkOfTheBeast (11 months ago) Show Hide

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well the facts in the video definitely aren't fake. the pictures seem to be a medley

friendsofbradwill (10 months ago) Show Hide

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Yes it is a medley of images.
And, Such expertise can be used to help de-militarize conflicts in Central and South America!

Decapitiser (11 months ago) Show Hide

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Yes brother, at one with MEXICO til the my very last drop of blood.Plan Mexico is just another invasion to steal our resources.We carry Cuauhtemoc's bloodline and its time for the third revolution since the 1810 and 1910 failed...but 2010 shall not.Our new sun awaits us soon.

historywillabsolve (1 year ago) Show Hide

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yes, there are over 500,000 US citizens living in mexico, most of them fatcats who got rich off NAFTA. after they make a living exploiting Mexico's poor, they retire there with their huge bank accounts and interfere in Mexico's politics. Mexico needs another revolution to remove these parasites.

ivanyoulube (1 year ago) Show Hide

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very well said :)

nigger230 (1 month ago) Show Hide

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the mexican people don't get that... you are smart... zionist own mexxican politicians.. mexico is the 7th richest oil country... oil hungry industry's steal from mexico..

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