[IMC-Boston-Editorial] Oaxaca Attacked by Paramilitaries: Indymedia Reporter Killed

[Sofia JarrinT]

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>From: Nancy Davies 
>Reply-To: oaxacastudyactiongroup at yahoogroups.com
>To: OSAG yahoo group ,  Dan Feder 
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>Subject: [oaxacastudyactiongroup] Fwd: Send everywhere
>Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:29:56 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I think I  heard that two are dead,  that is, not just Brad Wills but 
>another teacher. The note below was sent to me by Alvaro, here in Oaxaca
>
>Subject: Send everywhere
>To: Nancy Davies 
>
>
>  En este mismo momento, policías vestidos de civil
>están atacando las barricadas mantenidas por el pueblo
>de oaxaca. Están siendo agredidos con metralletas y
>los maestros se defienden con palos y machetes. Es una
>verdadera masacre organizada por la administración de
>ulises ruiz ortiz, gobernador del Estado de Oaxaca.
>Hay varios maestros herdidos y un reportero
>norteamericano de Indymedia muerto por las balas de
>los policías. La Cruz Roja Local no asiste a los
>llamados de ayuda pues ha recibido órdenes de no
>moverse. Avisar a todos los medios.
>
>Right now, in this very moment, state policemen dressed
>in civil clothes are atacking the barricades mantained
>by the Oaxacan people and their teachers. They are
>shooting them with machine guns and the teachers and
>the people are defending themselves with stones and
>machetes. It is a real massacre orginized by the
>ulises ruiz administration (Oaxcan Governor). There
>are many teachers hurted and at least one American
>reporter from New York City (Indymedia), killed by the
>State police. The local Red Cross is not caming to
>attend the urgent help calls because they have got
>orders from the state goverment not to do it. Please
>help all concerned.
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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
October 28, 2006, 12:40 a.m.

Contact:
           Beka Economopoulos, (917) 202-5479
           Brandon Jourdan, (646) 342-8169
           Eric Laursen, (917) 806-6452

WILLIAM BRADLEY ROLAND, U.S. JOURNALIST/CAMERMAN, KILLED BY OAXACA
PARAMILITARIES
KILLER ID'D - ACTIONS BEING PLANNED IN U.S.

William Bradley Roland, aka Brad Will, a U.S. journalist and
cameraman, was shot and killed yesterday in Oaxaca, Mexico, by
paramilitaries affiliated with the PRI, the former Mexican ruling
party. Will was in Oaxaca covering the continued resistance of
teachers and other workers against the PRI-controlled government of
the State of Oaxaca. According to reports from New York City
Independent Media Center and La Jornada, Will, 36, was shot at the
Santa Lucia Barricade from a distance of 30-40 meters in the pit of
the stomach by plainclothes paramilitaries and died while enroute to
the Red Cross.

Centro de Medios Libres (http://vientos.info/cml ) in Mexico City
reports that from Will's recovered videotapes, they have identified
his killer as a paramilitary named Pedro Carmona, ex-president of
Felipe Carrillo Puerto de Santa Lucia del Camino, a colonia in Oaxaca.

At last report, Will was one of five people who died in the last day,
along with 17 wounded, as paramilitaries and federal police poured in
to retake the city, according to Centro de Medios Libres. The city
had been in the hands of the workers for five months. Will is the
first American to be killed in the months-long confrontation. A
longtime journalist and activist, he covered land occupations in the
Pacific Northwest of the U.S., direct actions and rebellions in
Argentina and Ecuador, land occupations in Brazil, and anti-
privatization struggles in Bolivia. He was a much-beloved figure in
the global justice movement in the U.S. and leaves behind many
grieving friends.

Friends of Brad in the U.S. will be calling actions in the next day
to demand that the U.S. State Department press the Mexican government
to investigate Brad's murder and address the terror tactics of the 
regime that made it possible. Additionally, they will press for 
solidarity in the U.S. with the Mexican movement for social justice 
that Brad gave his life to document in Oaxaca.

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