International Tribunals
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly” (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963).
In class, we have discussed connections and networks, and how they positive and negative relationships can actually cause others to favor or disfavor others in order to have a balance in society. On September 25th 2015 the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement will convene in New York City to commence to discuss the crimes against humanity that the Mexican government has committed. This tribunal is the direct result of groups of people from different parts of the world actively creating a network to fight the social injustices that the Mexican government has partaken in. The tribunal is also devoting a portion of the weekend to fighting human rights violations against immigrants of Mexican origin. The goal of this Tribunal and ones that have occurred previous to it is to discuss and pull together cases that demonstrate these violations that have occurred in order to create documentation of what is happening, and therefore facilitate change in our world.
The relationships that develop between people have either positive or negative connotations. This can be applied to larger groups of people acting as a single node as well. The International Tribunal that is occurring soon reflects this idea. It is essentially a group of people, or node in our world’s web/network, looking to balance out a triangle against the crimes against humanity that Mexico has committed by giving the rest of the world a very good reason to feel negatively about their actions as well. But in order to persuade, they must consolidate information to create their irrefutable argument against these actions that have occurred in the past decade.