Yo Soy 132

A student movement in Mexico has swept the country and is expected to have a major impact on this weekend's June 1 Presidential election.

Yo Soy 132 (I am of the 132) began when the presidential PRI party candidate, Peña Nieto, visited the Ibero-American University and was confronted by difficult questions from the students there. Ducking out of the meeting, the candidate and the Party dismissed the audience as being composed of outside agitators. In response the students made a video where each held up their student ID and proclaimed I was one of the 131 students there. The video went viral and other students, individuals and social movements took up the cause with the expression Yo Soy 132 (I am the 132nd student). Using social media to counter the mainstream media, which is seen as complicit with the major political parties, new movements have enlarged the Yo Soy 132 campaign across the country and they have expanded it's range of issues to include the drug war, indigenous rights, economic justice and more. Last week Yo Soy 132 held it's own presidential debate, with all candidates appearing - except for the PRI candidate, Peña Nieto.

Yo Soy 132 (Part one and Two) are a representation of the social media of the movement. Inspired partly by the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement - Yo Soy 132 has the potential to drive real democratic change in Mexican politics - we'll be watching.

Part one is english/spanish, part two is spanish only.
OWS - Yo So 132 Part One WATCH ONLINE
Wed 06/27/12 05:30 PM Channel 26
Fri 06/29/12 03:30 PM Channel 26

OWS - Yo Soy 132 Part Two WATCH ONLINE
Thu 06/28/12 01:00 PM Channel 26
Sat 06/30/12 07:00 PM Channel 26