#NoNosCallaran Campaign Fights for Justice in Crimes Against Journalists in Mexico Teresa Mioli - Journalism in the Americas | |
go to original September 2, 2015 |
Black ink, save for the words NO NOS CALLARÁN in white, covered the front page of El Universal. (Twitter)
One month after the brutal murders of Veracruz journalist Rubén Espinosa, activist Nadia Vera and three other women in a Mexico City apartment, activists and journalists continue to fight against impunity and for freedom expression.
On August 31, a campaign around the hashtag #NoNosCallarán (We Will Not Be Silenced) took over social media and the front page of Mexican daily El Universal.
A letter to President Enrique Peña Nieto and other Mexican authorities was printed on an inside page of the newspaper. Signatories asked the officials to investigate the murders of journalists and establish mechanisms for their protection. The logos of freedom of expression organizations PEN America and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), as well as online activist community Avaaza, were printed underneath.
On a separate page, there were 600 signatures of journalists and intellectuals from 192 countries, alongside the hashtag #NoNosCallarán.
Yet, these signatures represent only a fraction of the more than 730,000 people who have signed that petition on Avaaz’s website. Since the publication of the letter and the hashtag in El Universal, #NoNosCallarán has been used in more than 500 posts reaching more than 8 million people in the last 24 hours, according to Keyhole. The height of activity was reached September 1 around 1 p.m.
A post from Univision journalist Jorge Ramos was retweeted almost 3000 times: “#NoNosCallarán in Mexico or the United States. We will not sit, we will not go, we will not be silenced.”
Posters are expressing solidarity with Mexican journalists and asserting the status of freedom of expression as a human right. Alongside their promises that they will not be silenced, they are tagging Peña Nieto and Veracruz Governor Javier Duarte.
In an editorial published on Aristegui Noticias, journalist and activist Lydia Cacho listed her reasons for not being silenced. “Because democracy is not built from submission #NoNosCallarán. Because my fellow activists did not deserve death #NoNosCallarán. Because all human lives matter #NoNosCallarán…”
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