Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 27 2006 @ 08:22 PM UTC

oh god.

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Authored by: Why on Friday, October 27 2006 @ 09:05 PM UTC

RIP. Man, it's getting worse. Way worse.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 27 2006 @ 09:49 PM UTC

Brad was a fully alive, tireless, hopefull frontline rebel and friend who
worked with many, many of us in the streets, wilds and community
spaces in the struggles of the last decade.

Brad wrote two weeks ago about a mexcian companero shot and killed
in Oaxica:"one more death --one more martyr in a dirty war -- one more
time to cry and hurt -- one more time to know power and its ugly head"
Much love for your life, how you lived and what you gave us all, Brad--
and hope and rage to keep loving and fighting.

Recent details and updates from NYC Indymedia:
http://publish.nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/77757.html

Updated article from Mexico:
Brad Will, New York Documentary Filmmaker and Indymedia Reporter,
Assassinated by Pro-Government Gunshot in Oaxaca While Reporting the
Story
http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2223.html

From a recent message to friends:

From: "brad ." <zradley@hotmail.com>
Date: October 8, 2006 12:52:00 AM EDT
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: mexico

hey everybody
i am settling in well down here in oaxaca and getting bizzy running
around getting interviews and working to get the story -- it is really
inspiring how brave people can be sometimes faced with incredible
adversity -- check out what a friend wrote:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/es/2006/10/76995.html

and take care
brad

friends in NYC wrote this about him:
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:20:05 -0400
Subject: friend and companero brad was killed

Our friend, brother, and companero, Brad Will was killed today by
paramilitaries in Oxaca Mexico.

Brad has been an inspiring and passionate militant, joining struggles
all over the world, from land occupations in the Pacific North West
of the US, to direct actions against global capital, to rebellions in
Argentina, land occupations in Brazil, and anti-privatization
struggles in Bolivia. Brad was always a part of whatever he was in.
He was always with people, not organizing them. He taught me, and so
many others so much through example. He will be missed in so many
ways.

Brad was a part of our communities. We should remember him with the
love and affection that he showed, and we feel. We should also carry
on with direct action to stop those that are trying to stop social
creation, in the US, Mexico, Argentina, and the globe.

brad Presente!
brad presente!
brad Presente!

Brad's last email dispatch ...

early dawn, oct16
yesterday i went for a walk with the good people of oaxaca -- was
walking
all day really -- in the afternoon they showed me where the bullets hit
the
wall -- they numbered the ones they could reach -- it reminded me of
the
doorway of amadou diallos home -- but here the grafitti was there before
the
shooting began -- one bullet they didnt number was still in his head --
he
was 41 years old -- alejandro garcia hernandez -- at the neighborhood
barricade every night -- that night he came out to join his wife and sons
to
let an ambulance through -- then a pickup tried to follow -- he took their
bullet when he told them they could not pass -- they never did -- these
military men in civilian dress shot their way out of there

a young man who wanted to only be called marco was with them when
the
shooting happened -- a bullet passed through his shoulder -- he was
clearly
in shock when we met -- 19 years old -- said he hadnt told his parents
yet
-- said he had been at the barricade every night -- said he was going
back
as soon as the wound closed -- absolutely

just days before there was a delegation of senators visiting to determine
the ungovernability of the state -- they got a taste -- the call went out to
shut down the rest of the government -- dozens went walking out of the
zocalo city center with big sticks and a box full of spray paint -- they
took control of 3 city buses and went around the city all morning
visiting
local government buildings and informing them that that they were
closed --
and we appreciate your voluntary cooperation -- and they filed out
preturbed
but still getting paid -- shut -- as they pulled away from the last stop 3
gunmen came out and started shooting -- 2 buses had already pulled
away --
mayhem -- 10 minute battle with stones and slingshots and screaming --
one
headwound -- another through the leg -- made their way to the hospital
while
the fighting continued -- shout out on the radio and people came from
all
parts -- the gunmen were around the side of the building -- they got
away --
they were inside -- no one sure -- watchful -- undercover police were
reported lurking around the hospital and folks went running to stand
watch
over the wounded

what can you say about this movement -- this revolutionary moment --
you
know it is building, growing, shaping -- you can feel it -- trying
desperately for a direct democracy -- in november appo will have a state
wide conference for the formation of a state wide assemblea estatal del
pueblo de oaxaca (aepo) -- now there are 11 of 33 states in mexico that
have
declared formation of assemblea populares like appo -- and on la otra
lado
in the usa a few -- the marines have returned to sea even though the
federal
police who ravaged atenco remain close by -- the new encampment in
mexico
has begun a hunger strike -- the senate can expell URO -- whats next
nobodies sure -- it is a point of light pressed through glass -- ready to
burn or show the way -- it is clear that this is more than a strike, more
than expulsion of a governor, more than a blockade, more than a
coalition of
fragments -- it is a genuine peoples revolt -- and after decades of pri rule
by bribe, fraud, and bullet the people are tired -- they call him the tyrant
-- they talk of destroying this authoritarianism -- you cannot mistake the
whisper of the lancandon jungle in the streets -- in every street corner
deciding together to hold -- you see it their faces -- indigenous, women,
children -- so brave -- watchful at night -- proud and resolute

went walking back from alejandros barricade with a group of supporters
who
came from an outlying district a half hour away -- went walking with
angry
folk on their way to the morgue -- went inside and saw him -- havent
seen
too many bodies in my life -- eats you up -- a stack of nameless corpes
in
the corner -- about the number who had died -- no refrigeration -- the
smell
-- they had to open his skull to pull the bullet out -- walked back with
him
and his people

and now alejandro waits in the zocalo -- like the others at their plantones
-- hes waiting for an impasse, a change, an exit, a way forward, a way
out,
a solution -- waiting for the earth to shift and open -- waiting for
november when he can sit with his loved ones on the day of the dead
and
share food and drink and a song -- waiting for the plaza to turn itself
over
to him and burst -- he will only wait until morning but tonight he is
waiting for the governor and his lot to never come back -- one more
death --
one more martyr in a dirty war -- one more time to cry and hurt -- one
more
time to know power and its ugly head -- one more bullet cracks the
night --
one more night at the barricades -- some keep the fires -- others curl up
and sleep -- but all of them are with him as he rests one last night at his
watch

uro= Ulises Ruiz Ortiz "governor" of the state of oaxaca
planton= sit in, vigil, encampment
zocalo= central plaza

more info:
http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2180.html
http://mexico.indymedia.org/tiki-index.php?page=DesalojoOaxaca
http://www.oaxacalibre.org/libertad/
http://elenemigocomun.net/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oaxacastudyactiongroup/messages

'In sum, we are an army of dreamers, and therefore invincible. How can
we
fail to win, with this imagination overturning everything. Or rather, we
do
not deserve to lose.'
- Subcomandante Marcos

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 27 2006 @ 10:31 PM UTC

From Indymedia Brazil (the ones with guns are the paramilitaries):
[OAXACA] FOTOS
Por de outros meios 28/10/2006 às 00:53

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 28 2006 @ 12:20 PM UTC

Calling this a shoot-out is a bit misleading. That, to me, would suggest both sides had guns.
I wouldn't call APPO and Section 22 Gandian, but they've chosen a more or less non-violent path, i suspect out of a realistic assesment of the balance of (fire)power

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 28 2006 @ 02:56 PM UTC

I wouldn't call those people APPO; from what I've heard they were defending their neighborhood, and I wouldn't blame them one bit if some of them had guns.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 27 2006 @ 10:48 PM UTC

Fuck. Maybe now big media will take some sort of a remote, passing interest in Oaxaca?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 28 2006 @ 12:05 AM UTC

OK... let's suppose that this situation really starts to explode, in a revolutionary way. I envisioned this sort of thing happening further to the south, but in any case, suppose Mexico becomes the new Spain; i.e. a chance to break the neck of neoliberalism once and for all, by making a very real, physical contribution to the struggle with our own bodies if necessary.
Do we have a plan? Does anyone have a plan? I know that people from Pittsburgh and elsewhere have gone to Oaxaca, but what's happening past that? I'm not yearning for the Comintern, but who's going to put together the International Brigades this time around?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 28 2006 @ 01:15 AM UTC

these questions are why it's important to have communities of anarchists already in existance who know each other and can organize and mobilize quickly when such a need arises. quit being isolated and come together with other anarchists and at least stay in touch so you can get together when it needs to happen.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 28 2006 @ 06:58 AM UTC

Also if they need these supplies are there caravans going down there? If so where will they be picking up supplies?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 28 2006 @ 09:30 AM UTC

The best way to support the social movments in Oaxaca is to listen to them and folks that have been doing solidarity work with them. Oaxaquenos have been organizing for decades and they do have much more sophisticated plans than we do in most parts of the US. I doubt an "international brigade" of folks from the US would be very helpful to them unless we look mexican, speak spanish and have the kind of military power to seriously threaten their law enforcement and military agencies (we definatly dont have that). The uprisings in Oaxaca, while militant and on the recieving end of large amounts of violence are social movements, not armed resistance movements. Where we are organized, we should offer solidarity to APPO and other revolutionary movments in Oaxaca. Maybe they will ask for people from here to go there, but it wont be to fight (probably as human rights observers and journalists) I rekon they will probably ask for us to support them in other ways.

There are gringo anarchist people who have been invoulved in Oaxaca solidarity for a long time. check out El Enimigo Comun (the main website isn't working for me there is also this one). We screened this film made by Austin Indymedia activists at least a year ago here in Houston. The film has evoulved to be a general website in solidarity with the revolutionary social movements in Oaxaca.

Another film I really want to get my hand on is Granito de Arena, which looks at why the teachers and teachers union are at the forfront of the anti-neoliberal movement in Oaxaca.

There are groups that do CIPO-RFM(an indegenous anarchist group in Oaxaca) solidarity in Boston and Atlanta.

What I would encourage people who are serious about staying connected to local and global revolutionary social movements to do is integrate their work with Indymedia. If there is an IMC in your community, write up reports about the work you do for it, go to meetings and offer to help in whatever ways you think would be productive, and use indymedia as a primary source for what you know about our communities and our movements. Indymedia has been on the frontlines of the struggles in Oaxaca more than any other radical movement in the US. Indymedia practices what anarchism preaches by creating an open project for people to share their truths and connect their struggles, it could be even stonger if we all supported it. RoB

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 28 2006 @ 04:32 PM UTC

people in LA are organizing support/a speaking tour

Support the Struggle in Oaxaca

Coordinating meeting for the Oaxaca Libertarian Speaking Tour.

Sunday Tomorrow at Noon

We will meet every Sunday at Noon

at the Chuco Justice Center

253 W. Martin Luther King Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
90037

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 28 2006 @ 03:33 AM UTC

R.I.P. Comrade. : (

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 28 2006 @ 11:26 AM UTC

RIP comrade. The high cost of taking a principled stand against capital.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 28 2006 @ 05:11 PM UTC

don't just mourn, organize! we can start leaving phone messages at our consulates now and we can show up early monday morning.
this is an absolutely critical time in oaxaca because unlike other assassinations that have happened, this is the largest number of deaths and the federal government is moving in on the situation, which they haven't yet.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 28 2006 @ 08:35 PM UTC

advance phone messages? why would you let them know youre about to attack!?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 30 2006 @ 08:33 AM UTC

attack?? Those places are where Mexican people get paper work, not where the federales or paramilitaries relax after a day of gun battles

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 30 2006 @ 06:01 PM UTC

right. dont protest or blockade or occupy these government buildings because they are there to serve the people! spaz

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 29 2006 @ 10:23 AM UTC

Brads Last video when shot.....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3664350201077731285

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 29 2006 @ 10:25 AM UTC

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 29 2006 @ 11:50 AM UTC

Also, there are a plethora of Mexican multinationals operating here in the States, with one of the largest and most notable being the concrete giant CEMEX, who has dozens of facilities throughout the US.
http://www.cemexusa.com/

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 29 2006 @ 12:30 PM UTC

Solidarity actions:
Milan, Italy


Madrid, Spain

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 29 2006 @ 12:57 PM UTC

solidarity action at the Raleigh Consulate in North Carolina at 9 am Monday morning!

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 29 2006 @ 04:25 PM UTC

Solidarity Action in PHOENIX!! Come to the consulate Monday the 30th! sould be noon-6-7-8-pm and beyond. Thanks!

(19th ave/Camelback is where the consulate is)

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 29 2006 @ 04:28 PM UTC

SHit. As of 5:30pm MST no streaming audio from the APPO indymedia stream. That is not a good sign. I hope all of you folks out there have the people of Oaxaca in your minds and your hearts, they need us.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 29 2006 @ 05:57 PM UTC

Solidarity actions in Boston:

A vigil for Brad Will and the people of Oaxaca was held outside the Mexican Consulate in Boston on Saturday 10/28.

A bigger demonstration is now being organized for Thursday, November 2, which is el Dia de los Muertes (Day of the Dead). 4pm. Boston Mexican Consulate. 20 Park Plaza.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 03 2006 @ 10:57 AM UTC

There are two very short Youtube videos showing protests from last night at Harvard University's Peabody Museum where their annual Dia de los Muertos celebration, co-sponosred by the Mexican consulate was disrupted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBOKJQ_gaPg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-zkCGc0NGU

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 30 2006 @ 01:58 AM UTC

Tucson Community Responds to Intensifying Violence in Oaxaca, Mexico
Demonstration **Please bring signs and banners

Monday, October 30, 2006
4:00pm - 7:00pm
Mexican Consulate Office
533 S. Stone Avenue (Stone & 16th St.)

The Tucson Coalition for Justice in Oaxaca has these demands:

* End the federal government sponsored violence in Oaxaca.

* Oaxaca State Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz's resignation immediately.

* The release of all political prisoners in Oaxaca.

* We support Reporters Without Borders' demand for a full and complete investigation by Mexican authorities into Oaxaca State Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz's continued use of plain-clothed municipal
police as a political paramilitary force. The arrest of the assailants is not enough.

* The Tucson Coalition for Justice in Oaxaca also supports the call of Zapatista Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos "to compa

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 30 2006 @ 04:21 AM UTC

A peaceful strike who's only violence came from Governor Ruiz...Proves what a corrupt country Mexico still is.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 31 2006 @ 02:42 PM UTC

Peaceful except for June 14 when the cops and government were virtually kicked our of the city. But then, I get off on pacifism, so I'll skip that day when I remember things.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 30 2006 @ 09:55 AM UTC

it was so difficult to watch, but i had to see what you saw. i'm crying now, angry tears. we were at the consulate today in nyc and will fight for you and the people of oaxaca without giving in. we all love you so much. thank you for teaching me the tear gas song, and for singing it together with me in miami. i will miss you, your laugh, your smile, sense of humor and fearlessness. you saved my ass a couple times in the streets.

i will never forgive, i will never forget. some people can, but i am too tired from all of this to do that.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 30 2006 @ 11:27 AM UTC

Actions that have already happened (from http://www.ulisesruizasesino.com/):

Brazil, Sao Paulo: 10/29 Mexican consulate was vandalized with slogans in support of Brad Will and Oaxaca. read more

Mexico City: 10/29 Three thousand march in support of the APPO against violence and also demanding the Governor Ortiz to resign. more info

USA, New York City, NY: 10/29 Emergency Assembly for Oaxaca and Brad Will solidarity

Canada, Vancouver: 10/28 A solidarity rally was held - more info and video

Chile, Santiago: Report received 10/28

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 30 2006 @ 11:31 AM UTC

in seattle i read people will be gathering from 3-5pm in front of the consulate, and i've also read that they will be there at 6pm. if you can go at both time you should.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 30 2006 @ 11:58 AM UTC

i hope th APPO radio in oaxaca has access to the news that all these events are happening around the world. i think it would really raise people's spirits in oaxaca to hear about all this stuff happening. someone who knows how to get in touch with the APPO radio should ask them if they know.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 30 2006 @ 05:13 PM UTC

in sacramento a window was smashed on the front of the mexican consulate

http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/30/18324702.php

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 30 2006 @ 05:56 PM UTC

20 people protest at consulate in seattle:

20 people protested the death of Brad Will and other protestors killed in Oaxaca by the police. They handed out flyers from 3 to 5pm and held signs denouncing the police actions in Oaxaca and remembering Brad Will, a cameraman for NYC Indymedia who was killed on Saturday at a barricade by local police. Protestors called for the removal of Federal Police from Oaxaca and recognition of the APPO as the legitimate voice of Oaxaca's citizens. More protestors were expected to arrive at 6pm for another protest. There will also be another protest at the consulate on Thursday. Details will be posted on Seattle Indymedia. Please attend!

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 30 2006 @ 06:45 PM UTC

anyone know about whats going on in mexico city right now?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 30 2006 @ 10:28 PM UTC

Check THIS out.

http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=8791

Interesting article, eh?
I cant believe people like this exsist!

~A

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 31 2006 @ 09:07 AM UTC

One american gets killed and suddenly everybody wants to help with Oaxaca. what about all the other people that have died. I am not saying lets not remember brad, for all I know it could have been some other inymedia reporter I know, or me, or you and I am trully sorry about his dead, he was doing something very important: trying to inform the truth....

The amount of coverage he has gotten amazes me and bothers me, in comparison with the coverage Oaxaca got before the incident. I guess you could look at it from a positivist perspective, cuz now people are reacting more than before and want and will do shit about this situation in Mexico.

I have mixed feelings about all this, but am sorry for his dead, he was brave, like many others in Oaxaca that can live to tell the tale and fight the state.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 31 2006 @ 02:49 PM UTC

I totally agree. And many Oaxaque

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Authored by: MagonistaRevolt on Tuesday, October 31 2006 @ 04:04 PM UTC

sure a white guy died. But to say that popular reaction is a reaction to a white guy dying is misleading. In DC, we mobilized because the repression in Oaxaca had mounted to the level of Federal police storming the city, as well as to mourn the death of a comrade of ours (and a friend to many of us).

Don't ignore the fact that the situation had changed and we reacted to the change. Yes people came out for Brad Will, but they also came out to pledge support for Oaxaquenos in their hour of need.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 31 2006 @ 05:43 PM UTC

Very true, but honestly, I don't think that the level of outrage would have been the same worldwide, certianly in NYC, had it not been for Brad's death.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 01 2006 @ 11:27 AM UTC

Thats because Brad was from NYC and most of the people planning the demonstrations there are friends of his. I find it disturbing that people think it is ok to critique friends and family for planning memorials and demos in his honor. I knew Brad and i'm saddened and outraged by his death. I am also involved in the labor movement and have been doing solidarity work on Oaxaca for a long time. I know alot of the people who are planning these new demonstrations also have been working on the situation in Oaxaca.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 31 2006 @ 10:31 AM UTC

Does anyone have any information about groups going to Oaxaca from the U.S?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 31 2006 @ 12:15 PM UTC

Hey! Guess what? I was following the situation in Oaxaca BEFORE Brad died. And hey, since I was, statistics state that there were probably many other white americans that were as well!

HOWEVER. I do understand the point of the posting above. The issue gained more "importance" and definitely more coverage after he died. I have issues with that too. As a former personal friend of Brads, I can't but be disheartened and feel remorse- but only to a point, because I know if/when I die- I don't want to have people let their remorse take over, I want it to inspire and help motivate. I also think maybe that it was because he was a journalist for IMC. And you know, when a journalist from ANY outlet dies, there is a outcry- because I think that the people that are connected to these outlets have more power to spread the word and make news of it.

So, in THIS CASE was is racism that drove the "public" not to notice? Possibly. CNN and other large media outlets barely if at all covered it until Brad was murdered.

I can only hope that one day the deaths of minorities will spark the same kind of outrage.

"everything changes"

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Authored by: Admin on Tuesday, October 31 2006 @ 12:20 PM UTC

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 01 2006 @ 12:21 AM UTC

It's more important to remember that Brad was an American citizen. If he had been non-white, but still American, would there be less attention paid? I doubt it. Yes, Ben Linder and Rachel Corrie were white... is there a non-white example? Maybe not, so maybe this is just my hunch, but I think that people noticed this because of nationality and nothing else.

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Authored by: MagonistaRevolt on Wednesday, November 01 2006 @ 11:37 AM UTC

This page is still rollin on getting the president's website down:
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/oaxaca/basta.htm

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 01 2006 @ 02:28 PM UTC

02.11.2006
13:00
Turkey/Istanbul
in front of Mexican Consulate

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 02 2006 @ 12:00 AM UTC

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