Vigil: Group calls for global support
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1994 when the rebels declared
war on the Mexican state, calling
for education, welfare and indige
nous land rights.
According to Alyssa Abbey, a
22-year-old international studies
major and C1SCAP member, the
vigil sent a message to the Univer
sity community.
“The biggest achievement is in
creasing the awareness and get
ting [the community] involved,”
she said.
Abbey recently visited Chiapas
and got a first-hand perspective of
the problems that plague the high
ly indigenous and mountainous
Mexican state. She believes there
is a definite link between poverty
and problems such as the mas
sacre in Chiapas.
According to John Groves, a
graduate student in journalism
and a CISCAP volunteer, interna
tional support and demands play
an important role in ending the
wars in Mexico.
"The Zapatistas can’t win with
arms,” he said. “They can only
win with international support.”
But Miksch believes interna
tional support will only go so far
toward ending the problems in
Mexico.
"[Demilitarization] has to be a
starting point,” he said, “but its
ultimately up to the people of
Chiapas.”
Paying for Programs
The ASUO Programs Finance Committee committed $117,127 of student incidental fees Monday night. This was the
first PFC meeting of the season; the 1998-99 budget for every ASUO program will be set by the time the committee fin
ishes its hearings. None of Monday’s hearings were particularly controversial, PFC member Dan Reid said: “It was
about as easy as we expected. None of the early ones are very difficult.” The committee reconvenes Thursday.
% CHANGE (CHANGE
ORGANIZATION1998-991997-98FROM LAST YEARFROM LAST YEAR
Committee for Musical Arts $4,655$4,655 0%$0
ASUO Legal Services $107,998 $104,965 + 2.89% +$3,033
YWCA__ $4,474$3,758 +19.05%+$716
TOTAL $117,127 $113,378 + 7.3% +$3,749
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