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Brad Will of IMC Killed in Oaxaco- His last video/ IMC posts/ Worldwide protest photos
by Miami Indymedia Sunday, Nov. 05, 2006 at 2:22 PM
indymediamiami@yahoo.com

Brad Will was killed on October 27, 2006, in Oaxaca, Mexico, while working as a journalist for the global Indymedia network. He was a part of this movement of independent journalists who go where the corporate media do not or stay long after they are gone. To believe in Indymedia is to believe that journalism is either in the service of justice or it is a cause of injustice. We speak and listen, resist and struggle. In that spirit, Brad Will was both a journalist and a human rights activist. Those of us who knew Brad know that his work would never have been completed. From the community gardens of the Lower East Side to the Movimento Sem Terra encampments of Brazil, he would have continued to travel to where the people who make this world a beautiful place are resisting those who would cause it further death and destruction. Now, in his memory, we will all travel those roads. We are the network, all of us who speak and listen, all of us who resist...... NYC Indymedia

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Mexican Paramilitaries Slay NYC Indymedia Journalist
"The Independent" newspaper of NYC Indymedia

The repression began early on the morning of October 27 in Oaxaca, Mexico. Paramilitary forces linked to the local government kidnapped one local resident involved in the popular uprising. Gunmen shot at others.

“We don’t want to live like this anymore. We don’t want to live in a constant state of repression, of blackmail, of murder and shabby deals,” a female protester in Oaxaca told NYC Indymedia journalist Brad Will.

Brad had traveled to Oaxaca to capture the voices of people like this at the center of a grassroots popular movement whose stories weren’t being heard in the media.

He arrived four weeks earlier to report on how striking teachers led a campaign to force out the corrupt local government and police and established the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca or APPO.

On October 16, Brad wrote from Oaxaca: “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.”

It turned out to be the last dispatch Brad ever filed. On the afternoon of October 27, Brad was murdered by paramilitary forces. He was shot twice in the abdomen as he filmed pro-government gunmen attacking a barricade on the outskirts of Oaxaca. His camera was in his hand. He was wearing an Indymedia t-shirt.

* Read the article "Mexican Paramilitaries Slay NYC Indymedia Journalist" from THE INDYPENDENT, Newspaper of the NYC IMC: http://www.indypendent.org/?p=653
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"Oaxaca, Brad Will, and Why We Care"
Portland IMC article by Matilda

It has been just over a week since the killing began in earnest down in Oaxaca. One of the first to die was IMC journalist Brad Will. Many people here in Cascadia knew Brad, and felt his loss personally. But now, it seems, they are being asked to hide their pain, on the grounds that it might be perceived as unseemly. I did not know him, but I too am a media activist, and so he was my comrade. And so yes, I care. But now, I'm being asked why.

* Read the full article at: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/11/348675.shtml
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* See Bradley Will's last footage (en espanol) up until the moment he was shot:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3664350201077731285
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* Brad Will, NYC IMC Archive: http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/bradleywill/archive.html
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