[Imc-uk-features] [Fwd: [www-features] latest story oaxaca]

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Subject: [www-features] latest story oaxaca
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:17:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: machete amor <macheteyamor at yahoo.com>
To: www-features at lists.indymedia.org

latest from NYC indymedia, please add to the posts concerning oaxaca.  note that
it is likely that the deathcount will be much much higher tomorrow(based on what
people there think)

  http://publish.nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/77780.html






  October 28, 2006 04:47AM
      NYC indymedia journalist was killed by police or paramilitaries according
to locals; oaxacans remain under violent siege
  At least 4 dead in Oaxaca as protesters remain under siege, reports on Brad
Wills possible killer
        By Barucha Calamity Peller

  At least 4 dead in Oaxaca as protesters remain under siege; reports on Brad
Will's possible killer


  Keywords: Analysis, Local,

    Oct. 27 2006 - As the federal police wage a continuing violent siege on
Oaxaca City, local people have apparently identified the person responsible for
the fatal shooting of Brad Will in Oaxaca City, Mexico, today, after a
television station showed video of the incident.

After the footage of the shooting was shown on Televisa, a large Mexican
television network, Radio APPO in Oaxaca received four different reports from
people who identified the shooter as a plain clothes police or possibly a
paramilitary hired by the far right PRI party, and that his name is Pedro
Camona, however, it is not confirmed that this is in fact the name of the shooter.

Three others were also shot and killed during the incident, one a schoolteacher
named Emililio Alofonzo Fabian.

Throughout the day, radios run by the oaxacan protesters have been coming in and
out listening range, reporting multiple incidents of violent aggression from
federal police and paramilitary forces along the thousands of barricades
constructed by the protesters in recent months. Several groups of protesters and
teachers unions, along with Radio APPO have been surrounded and attacked by
police and PRI party sympathizers. The radios continue to call for Oaxacan
people to reinforce the barricades throughout the day, urging people to defend
themselves with sticks. The protesters in Oaxaca have been using sticks and
stones to fight off police and paramilitaries since the uprising began this
summer. The APPO(the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, a fusion of
protest groups) has consistently refuted mainstream Mexican press reports that
paint the group as armed and violent.

Reports from Oaxaca also say that health and medical collectives have been
aiding the rising number of injured people.

Before his murder today, Brad Will 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 center of Oaxaca City by federal police forces. Since then, the teachers and
other groups 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.
Will is believed to be the first indymedia.org journalist to be killed while
reporting.

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.

    By Barucha Calamity Peller macheteyamor at yahoo.com October 28, 2006 04:47AM
EDT [general.addtranslation] Download Article (PDF) [ insert language bar ]
      NYC indymedia journalist was killed by police or paramilitaries according
to locals; oaxacans remain under violent siege
  At least 4 dead in Oaxaca as protesters remain under siege, reports on Brad
Wills possible killer
        By Barucha Calamity Peller
    At least 4 dead in Oaxaca as protesters remain under siege; reports on Brad
Will's possible killer


  Keywords: Analysis, Local,

    Oct. 27 2006 - As the federal police wage a continuing violent siege on
Oaxaca City, local people have apparently identified the person responsible for
the fatal shooting of Brad Will in Oaxaca City, Mexico, today, after a
television station showed video of the incident.

After the footage of the shooting was shown on Televisa, a large Mexican
television network, Radio APPO in Oaxaca received four different reports from
people who identified the shooter as a plain clothes police or possibly a
paramilitary hired by the far right PRI party, and that his name is Pedro
Camona, however, it is not confirmed that this is in fact the name of the shooter.

Three others were also shot and killed during the incident, one a schoolteacher
named Emililio Alofonzo Fabian.

Throughout the day, radios run by the oaxacan protesters have been coming in and
out listening range, reporting multiple incidents of violent aggression from
federal police and paramilitary forces along the thousands of barricades
constructed by the protesters in recent months. Several groups of protesters and
teachers unions, along with Radio APPO have been surrounded and attacked by
police and PRI party sympathizers. The radios continue to call for Oaxacan
people to reinforce the barricades throughout the day, urging people to defend
themselves with sticks. The protesters in Oaxaca have been using sticks and
stones to fight off police and paramilitaries since the uprising began this
summer. The APPO(the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, a fusion of
protest groups) has consistently refuted mainstream Mexican press reports that
paint the group as armed and violent.

Reports from Oaxaca also say that health and medical collectives have been
aiding the rising number of injured people.

Before his murder today, Brad Will 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 center of Oaxaca City by federal police forces. Since then, the teachers and
other groups 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.
Will is believed to be the first indymedia.org journalist to be killed while
reporting.

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.

    By Barucha Calamity Peller macheteyamor at yahoo.com








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