Fw: OAXACA: U.S. Indymedia reporter murdered on barricades

["nello margiotta" <nellomargiotta55 at virgilio.it>]

> October 27, 2006
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>
> Dear Colleague,
>
> Today, pro-government forces attacked barricades manned by the
> Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO). Brad Will, a
> documentary filmmaker and reporter for Indymedia in New York, Bolivia
> and Brazil, was shot and killed while reporting on the story.
>
> Al Giordano reports on our colleague's death:
>
> "Brad went to Oaxaca in early October to document the story that
> Commercial Media simulators like Rebecca Romero of Associated Press
> distort instead of report: the story of a people sick and tired of
> repression and injustice, who take back the government that
> rightfully is theirs. In that context, his assassination is also a
> consequence of what happens when independent media must do the work
> that Big Media fails to do: to tell the truth. My friend and
> colleague since 1996 when we labored together at 88.7 FM Steal This
> Radio on New York's Lower East Side, I bumped into him again in
> Bolivia in 2004 during a public reception held by the Narco News
> School of Authentic Journalism, and again on the Yucatán peninsula
> last January where he came to cover the beginnings of the Zapatista
> Other Campaign - Brad died to bring the authentic story to the world.
>
> "Brad went to Oaxaca in early October knowing, assuming and sharing
> the risks of reporting the story. His final published article, on
> October 17, titled 'Death in Oaxaca,' reported the assassination of
> Alejandro García Hernández on the barricades set up by the Popular
> Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO, in its Spanish initials).
>
> "...Brad Will was known and liked throughout the hemisphere, and in
> its media centers from New York to Sao Paulo to Mexico City. Tonight
> his body lies in the same Oaxaca morgue he visited and wrote about
> last week. He will not go silently into the long night of repression
> that the illegitimate governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, President Vicente
> Fox and his illegitimate successor Felipe Calderon have created in
> Oaxaca, and, indeed, in so much of Mexico. It was inevitable that
> soon an international reporter would join the growing list of the
> assassinated under the repressive regimes of Mexico (others had
> already been raped and beaten in Atenco, only to be deported from the
> country last May). Tonight it was Brad, doing the responsible and
> urgent work, video camera in hand, of breaking the Commercial Media
> blockade."
>
> Read the complete report at The Narco News Bulletin:
>
> http://www.narconews.com
>
> From somewhere in a country called América,
>
> Dan Feder
> Managing Editor
> The Narco News Bulletin
> http://www.narconews.com
> webmaster at narconews.com