[Imc-uk-features] [Imc-london] press release re oaxaca

[GarconDuMonde]

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hey,

maybe better to save this press release for another action later this week - we
can't get the imc london projector this afternoon, unless there is another one
around??

	--gdm

yossarian wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> A bunch of us are working in IRC to get out a press release for the
> London demo tonight at 5pm.  Is there anybody who could quickly fax
> this?  There is a list of fax numbers at:
> 
> http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.kennedy1/press_database.htm
> 
> I will have trouble faxing it for a variety of reasons, if somebody else
> could take a crack at it (quickly, it's way too late already) and let me
> know via email that'd be amazing.
> 
> ****************************************
> 
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> 
> Indymedia UK
> 
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk
> 
> 
> PRESS RELEASE
> 
> MONDAY 30th October 2006
> 
> EMBARGO. For Immediate Release
> 
> CONTACT:  Sam Annison   07050 674464
> 
> contact at indymedia.org.uk
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> LAST FOOTAGE BY MURDERED JOURNALIST TO BE SCREENED ON MEXICAN EMBASSY
> 
> First Indications of Government Involvement as Federal Army Troops Move In
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> [LONDON, UK. Monday 30th October 2006]
> 
> Two days after his murder by government-aligned paramilitary forces in
> Mexico, the last video footage shot by Indymedia journalist Brad Will is
> going to be screened on the side of the Mexican embassy in London.  At
> the time of his death, Will was covering events in the rebel city of
> Oaxaca, which has largely slipped out of government control after a
> teachers' strike turned into a non-violent civil uprising by social
> movements against the state government. 
> 
> The screening will show the footage taken from Will's camera after he
> was shot and killed by right-wing paramilitaries associated with the
> state's ruling party, the PRI.  Besides Will, three people were killed
> and another journalist injured when the attack occurred on the outskirts
> of the city of Oaxaca. 
> 
> Mayor Manuel Martinez Feria of the nearby town of Santa Lucia del Camino
> said five men who appeared in photos brandishing pistols during the Will
> shooting had been turned over to state officials for possible
> involvement in Will's killing. He identified them as two members of
> Santa Lucia's city council, two of that town's police officers and a
> former justice of the peace from another town.
> 
> 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 state governor Ulises Ruiz of the PRI.
> 
> Meanwhile, in an apparent admission that it cannot resolve the
> months-long Oaxaca confrontation by peaceful means, the Mexican
> government yesterday committed 15,000 soldiers of the Mexican Federal
> Army and a further 6,500 police to break Oaxaca's social movements by
> force. 
> 
> For more information, visit:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk
> 
> 
> =============================================================
> 
> 
> EMBASSY SCREENING
> 
> Venue:
> Mexican Embassy to the United Kingdom
> 16 St George Street
> Hanover Square
> London
> W1S 1LX
> 
> Time: 5PM
> 
> Date: Monday 30 October 2006
> 
> 
> 
> 
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