FSRN has released a stirring audio story detailing Nestora Salgado’s struggle and her recent decision to go on hunger strike. You can listen to the story and read their coverage of Nestora by clicking here.
On Saturday, May 23, 2015, NUPORI (Nucleus for a Revolutionary Internationalist Party) was invited to attend the 7th Annual Free America Hip Hop Youth Festival in Santiago with an information table about Nestora Salgado’s unjust imprisonment. The response was very positive. Many people took literature and signed the mailing list to stay informed. Next to the Free Nestora poster is Marcos Adames of NUPORI and CRIR (Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment), one of the organizations that helped initiate the international campaign to free Nestora and all political prisoners in Mexico.
The Seattle University School of Law, where supporter of Nestora’s cause Professor Thomas Antkowiak teaches, has issued a news story providing some details into Nestora’s decision to go on hunger strike as well as the international efforts to pressure the Mexican government to release her.
This past weekend, the Free Nestora contingent of NYC Radical Women helped spread word of Nestora’s wrongful incarceration at the International Women’s Day march organized by the International Working Women’s Day Coalition. Emily Yamasaki, flanked by members of RW, the Freedom Socialist Party, the Free Nestora Committee, and other international activists, spoke of Nestora’s case at Herald Square on behalf of Radical Women.
Holding the banner on the left for Women Workers for Peace/Mujeres Trabajadoras por la Paz are the immigrant rights activists Nieves Ayress and Victor Toro.
In continuing with the recent (and very welcome) string of coverage on Nestora Salgado, the LA Times has released a story discussing the specific roadblocks – namely victims-rights advocate Isabel Miranda de Wallace – to Nestora’s release. De Wallace claims that Nestora Salgado kidnapped and ransomed innocent “victims,” but we stand firmly with Nestora’s husband Jose Luis Avila, who claims, “there are no ‘victims'” in this case, only “people who had broken laws and were under arrest.”
Click here to read the full story.
Nestora’s family members at the International Women’s Day March in Seattle.
Women at the Melbourne march support Nestora.
Supporters in Chicago.
Freedom for Political Prisoners Committee 