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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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