Nottingham response to the killing of Indymedia volunteer Brad Will in Mexico
Concerned | 29.10.2006 11:57 | Indymedia | Repression | Zapatista
I am writing this article to start working on a response from Nottingham to the brutal killing of Indymedia volunteer Brad Will, while filming at a demonstration in Oaxaca, Mexico on Friday. While Brad worked with New York Indymedia, these issues effect us all and solidarity actions have already taken place in New York, San Fransisco, Chile, Brasil, Canada, and have been planned to happen all over. What could Nottinghams response be? Some people from the Oaxaca region came to speak in Nottingham nearly 2 years ago when their situation grew from bad to worse. Now the situation is one of state assassins, violence and continues repression. What shall we do?
Full article with updates on UK Indymedia: 
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/354501.html
'William Bradley Roland, also known as Brad Will, 36, a documentary filmmaker and reporter for Indymedia New York in Mexico, Bolivia and Brazil, died today of a gunshot to the chest when pro-government attackers opened fire on a barricade in the neighborhood of Santa Lucia El Camino, on the outskirts of Oaxaca, Mexico. He died with his video camera in his hands.' (source: Narconews)
Brad had been in Oaxaca taking video and reporting on the state wide popular uprising and teacher strike that began in June with the violent attempted removal of the striking teachers from their encampment in the centre of Oaxaca City by federal police forces. 3 others were also killed alongside him (making 4 dead in total); 1 member of Radio Universidad was also injured: he was taken to the hospital in a volkswagen van as police would not let any ambulances come.
Since the beginning of the strike in June, teachers and other groups have formed the APPO - the Popular Assembly of the Oaxacan People - and have called for the removal of the governor of state Ulises Ruiz of the PRI. There is a long history of Mexico using government sponsored paramilitaries to repress social movements, including a massacre of hundreds of students in Mexico City in 1968. As reports of protesters surrounded by armed government forces and police continue to pour in, activists in cities around the world are planning protests at Mexican embassies in outcry against the violent aggression against the people of Oaxaca.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/354501.html 'William Bradley Roland, also known as Brad Will, 36, a documentary filmmaker and reporter for Indymedia New York in Mexico, Bolivia and Brazil, died today of a gunshot to the chest when pro-government attackers opened fire on a barricade in the neighborhood of Santa Lucia El Camino, on the outskirts of Oaxaca, Mexico. He died with his video camera in his hands.' (source: Narconews)
Brad had been in Oaxaca taking video and reporting on the state wide popular uprising and teacher strike that began in June with the violent attempted removal of the striking teachers from their encampment in the centre of Oaxaca City by federal police forces. 3 others were also killed alongside him (making 4 dead in total); 1 member of Radio Universidad was also injured: he was taken to the hospital in a volkswagen van as police would not let any ambulances come.
Since the beginning of the strike in June, teachers and other groups have formed the APPO - the Popular Assembly of the Oaxacan People - and have called for the removal of the governor of state Ulises Ruiz of the PRI. There is a long history of Mexico using government sponsored paramilitaries to repress social movements, including a massacre of hundreds of students in Mexico City in 1968. As reports of protesters surrounded by armed government forces and police continue to pour in, activists in cities around the world are planning protests at Mexican embassies in outcry against the violent aggression against the people of Oaxaca.
Concerned
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Many, many people have been killed
03.11.2006 13:15
Video and other stuff:
Solidarity with the Magonistas!
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This is info from Portland from someone who is organizing for the Oaxaca Libertarian / Magonista and popular movement speaking tour in the West Coast and South West, USA.
[this is an incomplete and perhaps due to so many conflicting stories incorrect at times account. It IS though an attempt to remember the names of the many who have died, and many more wounded and injured as well as the many who are being disappeared today in the struggle taking place in Oaxaca.]
We will never forget, they are our martyrs and they will always be present in all our struggle for liberation.
06.14.06
14 June, when local police tried to remove the protesters who had, since 22 May been occupying the centre of the city. Some 750 police officers took part in the operation. Media reports at the time said at least four people had died in the clashes - a claim denied by the local authorities.
08.09.06
three indigenous Triqui members of MULTI (Independent Unifying Movement of the Triqui Struggle) were shot near Putla last night. The radio reported that the Triquis, who belong to both MULTI and APPO were on their way to a meeting. They were killed by unknown shooters in an ambush on the highway 125 Putla de Guerrero-Santiago Juxtlahuaca, in the Mixteca region. Andrés Santiago Cruz, one of the victims, was a municipal agent of the community of Paraje Pérez, part of Santiago Juxtlahuaca, and a member of the commission for vigilance and safety of the APPO in the zoccalo encampment. The two other victims were Pedro Martínez Martínez, 70, a MULTI leader in Paraje Pérez, and a boy with them, Octavio Martínez Martínez, 12.
08.10.06
Thursday August 10, the APPO convoked a march to demand the liberty of Torres Pereda and Mendoza Nube. Around 12,000 people marched toward the occupied CORTV station when they were ambushed in a narrow stretch of Morelos Avenue around 7:15 at night. Gunmen shot from both sides of the street, wounding three people and killing one. Jose Colmenares, a 50 year-old mechanic, joined the march to support his wife, a junior-high teacher from Ejutla. A gunman who ran out into the street shot Colmenares in the neck and heart. He died minutes later.
08.22.06
APPO adherent Lorenzo San Pablo Cervantes, a 52-year-old public works employee, murdered August 22 in another pre-dawn incursion by government thugs against the radio stations captured by the movement.
10.13.06
three men in a red van pulled up to a Oaxaca City barricade and started shooting. They killed Alejandro García Hernández,42, shot in the head; and wounded Antonio Joaqúin Benítez,19.
10.18.06
Pánfilo Hernández, 48. a teacher, was shot by unknown gunmen that approached him in a vehicle while he was walking along the street. as he left a meeting of the Popular People's Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) in the municipality of San Luis Beltran. Hernandez died a few minutes later at the hospital.
10.21.06
A man died after unidentified gunmen opened fire on a radio station occupied by protesters in Oaxaca, Hospital sources said one man died of gunshot wounds, and protesters said two others were abducted by the attackers.
Oct. 28th
Bradley Roland Will, 36, from New York City, was shot in the abdomen and died later at a Red Cross hospital,
Esteban Zurrita, a resident of Oaxaca, was also shot dead
Emilio Alonso Fabian, whose bullet-ridden body was found more than 3km from the clash
10.29.06
Social Security Institute worker Roberto López Hernández and nurse and APPO safety commission member Jorge Alberto Beltrán.
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