[imc-italy] Brad Will gionalista e cameraman di Indymedia New York ucciso dai paramilitari ad Oaxaca

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http://www.indymedia.org/it/2006/10/849302.shtml

Subject: Brad Will, US Journalist and cameraman, killed in Oaxaca - 
killer ID'd - actions planned in US

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 camerman, 
was shot and killed yesterday in Oaxaca, Mexico, by paramiliaries 
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 Medias Libres (http://vientos.info/cml) in Mexico City reports 
that from Will's recovered videiotapes, 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 Medias 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 terroristic 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.