Whereas, 43 Normalista students went missing in Ayotzinapa Guerrero on September 26th, 2014.

Whereas, the Normalistas are one of the best student run collective in all of Mexico.

Whereas, the Normalista school “Raul Isidro Burgos” is a school located in rural Ayotzinapa, Guerrero.

Whereas, the school’s mission is to train future teachers to raise literacy and standard of living among the rural poor, at a primary level.

Whereas, the school receives no funding from the Mexican government and is therefore considered a school of social struggle.

Whereas, this school was created to provide poor rural students with a more adequate and useful education based on their needs, which urban schools fail to provide for them.

Whereas, Enrique Pena Nieto, current president of Mexico, introduced an Education Reform, which reevaluates and attempts to find a system that appropriately evaluates the performance and quality of their education system.

Whereas, the Education reform leaves the Normalista schools at a disadvantage, since urban schools have access to better resources, are much better equipped, and obtain funding from its government, therefore allowing urban schools to have a higher advantage when facing the education reform.

Whereas, one hundred Normalista students initially attempted to protest the discriminatory hiring and funding practices proposed by the government, but state and federal authorities blocked the route leading to the capital.

Whereas, the students made a second attempt, this time to attend The National System for Integral Family Development given by Maria de Los Angeles Pineda Villa, wife of Jose Luis Abarqua Velasquez, mayor of Iguala, Guerrero, but were stopped on their way by the police.

Whereas, the bus carrying Normalista students was stopped by the police who then opened fire, injuring 25 people, and killing 6 people, 2 of them students.

Whereas, students were then rounded up, forced into police cars and taken to Iguala, where they were transferred to Cocula, Guerrero.

Whereas, Deputy Police Chief Cesar Nava Gonzales, ordered subordinates to transport the students to a rural community known as Pueblo Viejo.

Whereas, the students were believed to have been handed over to Guerreros Unidos, a drug trafficking organization believed to have burned the students alive.

Whereas, Jose Luis Abarqua Velasquez, mayor of Iguala, is accused of orchestrating the kidnappings and,

Whereas, him and his wife Maria de Los Angeles who has siblings and relatives that are a members of drug trafficking groups, were arrested on November 4th, 2014, along with members of Guerreros Unidos, and a few police officers involved.

Whereas, arrested suspects led authorities to the remains of one of the 43 missing students in a garbage dump in Cocula, where his body was dumped after being killed and burned.

Whereas, the Mexican state is responsible for violence and repression against its citizens and student movements.

Whereas, the international community at large has the power to pressure the Mexican government to further investigate and bring about justice for the 43 missing students.

Whereas, local and international movements have been made to pressure the Mexican government to take further action.

Whereas, colleges all across the state have participated in actions and educating their campus communities

Whereas, well respected student organizations such as Movimiento Estudiantil, Chican@ de Aztlan (MEChA) National, MEChA de UCI, and DREAMS@UCI have showed public support and solidarity with the 43 missing students

Let it be resolved that the Associated Students of UCI, condemns the actions of the Mexican state and those involved in the disappearance of the 43 Normalista students from Ayotzinapa

Let it finally be resolved that ASUCI condemns the violence and repression of student movements and will show support for student movements done on campus that show support for the Normalista students.