I remember the moment of the earthquake
I remember the reaction of my parents
also the sound of ambulances
minutes later
I remember that I ran out of classes
I remember my dad coming back from the
rescue works of the new building
lion in tlatelolco full of dust and
deeply sad
I also remember seeing a school
I no longer had a wall and the ceiling was
above colored benches equal to the
bench in which I sat and remember
I thought I feel to me and ceiling
I would have fallen on my head
32 years after same September 19
the roof collapsed at school
enrique rébsamen and lost their lives
nine children
ten girls and seven women
On September 20 the citizens of
we wake up to a huge confusion of
state of things
we knew important landslides with
victims damage problems in the
services and the urgent need for
help but the information that are in
the media and the
networks was incomplete even with
correct data
the disorganization reigned in the city
It was evident that to prosecute
efforts of thousands of people
willing support was urgent
reliable information verified a
group of female and male citizens of
All ages
we gave ourselves to the face to start
feed a map that had landslides
since the official information was
simply insufficient
thus the idea of the verified hashtag arises
19 is and commitment was simple nothing more
disseminate information confirmed through
of monitors and monitors on cam that we
they feed the information
soon we realized that in the field the
things changed minute by minute and we
We took on the task of trying to cover
needs of collapses in the
measure of our possibilities of
spontaneous way about a chat of
whatsapp that gather information from
transports storage collapses
as monitors in the field were not made
know the needs we moved to
try to get what will be required
Volunteers in collections will receive the
requests of all kinds
they searched in their inventories and
updated in the lists of what is
required for people to know
what he has recreated Naja people
by bike motorcycle trucks was moving from
side to side to get the
help had never changed the list of
my contacts on my cell phone so fast
the majority was simply a first
name and then anything that I
Keep remembering where that person was or
with what could help me to narvarte jorge
tools and me park mexico for its
transport
ricardo álvaro obregón
when the stockyards was not the
Voluntary needs on computer
they supported us to capture and generate
postcards to ask the public what
that required the postcards include the
day and time
2nd clear, yes we are there and then
more volunteers helped us by spreading
on social networks to get there
get it york
there were so many people in the street of
the postcards had to include a
box that said if it was needed
people or not and what characteristics had
capín teros medical brigadistas
well came diamond discs legs of
goat radios booties for me do not give me his
lifelines endless things that
we had never heard the chats
they were active day and night when
I finally decided that I needed to sleep
I closed my eyes but the adrenaline did not
let me sleep I saw like a screen
imaginary unintelligible where I followed
having movement and scriptwriter is going to
answer would be the urgency
answer when I finally said good and
I give o’shea I had slept and I
I woke up there would be my phone to
find 600 unread messages and then
you just had to put on
current emergency situation
it was not only in the city of mexico
the earthquake of September 19 hit
hard in morelos puebla state of
Mexico
but also on September 7 an earthquake
of 8.2 degrees seriously affected badges
and to oaxaca and also demanded our
Attention
thus arises verified states with the
commitment to take other parts of the
country support that is so
wants and that also looks towards the
reconstruction verify information
work hours and hours under pressure not
it is terrible it is not free of errors it
it became our mantra to verify
something means only two options one
that you saw it with your two eyes that I
they said at least two different people
who saw it with their eyes any
something else is not verification with this
constant reminder we get that
our help were more effective than
the use in the energy of all people
that we knew out much more efficient and
then we realized that in networks
social and that in people chats
began to ask for confirmation of the
information as a new custom the
first of October
we came out with a statement to the
citizenship
after days of running from one side
for another to attend the emergency
we made a stop for air
pose questions that had been
raiding the previous days
to summarize all in one because the
government with so much money and resources to
its scope is not organized for
save lives and for this reason we had
to do this job or simply
this question does not have a single
answer but for us it is
essential to look for spaces
debate it collectively and demand
accountability that has not yet
arrived
in terms of the citizen experience
it is clear that from the talents and
possibilities of each person
there are many ways to help in a
emergency context generate
prior trust relationships
allows us to resort to them for
extend them in the most
difficult and this emergency has
touched deeply and we have done
dozens of endearing new friendships
many of them without knowing them in
person is not to say that they were
many citizen initiatives that
they arose because of the emergency
some reached a wider audience
but the important thing is the contribution of
each
many of them anonymously attend
who needed and still need
support for
thousands of people were the ones
they work in this emergency
untiringly
while the citizenship goes out to the street
even without being prepared to save
lives through the organization the
government rather looks like an observer
insensitive governments were and continue to
being unable to attend
needs that have arisen in this
emergency
in fact they are organized to do
private businesses and winning elections
to save lives or for
needs of reconstruction
for that reason we will be demanding spaces
to demand accountability and
be part of the reconstruction from
different neighborhood organizations
civil society from the angle that
everyone knows and can by toché
I think that everyone has a
reflection to do then the situation of
thousands of victims is worrying
from my talents my possibilities
How do I want to continue supporting with whom I
I will organize the earthquake of 19
September and the effort we made in
verified 19s
has transformed me in a powerful way
simply because he has shown me that
we are many people that we are
willing to put everything on hold for
help others
which perhaps we have never seen but
we know that he needs us
however that powerful impulse is
dissolve
if we do not know how to organize ourselves if not
we managed to connect and listen to each other and about
everything if we can not trust the other
in this emergency
We learned to trust to work together
without being naive but knowing that they are
the little we can do in verified 19s
that trust was built by managing the
information with responsibility and
working with their houses a lot
[Applause]
me
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