[News] Brad Will, Indymedia Journalist among dead in Oaxaca, Mexico

[Anti-Imperialist News]

BRAD WILL, INDYMEDIA JOURNALIST, AMONG THE DEAD IN OAXACA CITY, MEXICO

OSWALDO RAMIRIO, PHOTOGRAPHER FOR MILENIO DIARIO, ALSO SHOT AND AMONG
INJURED

[Readers of Open Letter:  There is a large Oaxacan community in Los
Angeles, with members active both in the immigrant and migrant labor
struggles, and in the solidarity actions with striking workers at the
barricades and in the zocalo of Oxaca.  I will try to place a few reports
on the developing struggle in Oaxaca and throughout Mexico in future
issues of Open Letter. --Scott Tucker, Editor of Open Letter Online.

Reports in English and Spanish with weblinks below

Government repression continues, reports of paramilitary squads

Workers, teachers, peasants and indigenous communities vow to defend
working class gains

http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/27/18323891.php

  A shootout has occurred in the municipality of Calicate, in Oaxaca City,
Mexico today, leaving New York City Indymedia journalist Bradley Will dead
after bein shot in the chest. He died before reaching the hospital,
according to La Jornada. A photographer from the newspaper millenio diario,
who was at Wills side, was shot in the foot and reported injured, his
status unknown.

Radio APPO, the radio of the Assembly Popular of the Oaxacan People, are
reporting truckloads of armed paramilitaries entering the city. They are
also calling for people to reinforce the thousands of barricades that have
been constructed for months as part of the statewide teacher strike and
popular uprising that has demanded the removal of PRI governor Ulisis Ortiz
Ruiz.


Original Article from La Jornada:

Matan a documentalista de EU en Oaxaca; un fotógrafo herido

La Jornada On Line

27/10/2006 18:38

Oaxaca, Oax. Una balacera ocurrida en el municipio de Calicante causó la
muerte del documentalista estadunidense Brat Will, de Indimedia Washington,
quien recibió un balazo en el pecho. A su vez, un fotógrafo del periódico
Milenio Diario, Oswaldo Ramírez, resultó herido con un disparo en el pie,
informó la edición Web del periódico.

El enfrentamiento ocurrió cuando grupos de supuestos guardias blancas,
según reportó Radio Fórmula, agredieron a los brigadistas que resguardan
las barricadas.

El dirigente de la APPO, Flavio Sosa, pidió la urgente intervención del
gobierno federal en ese municipio, porque dijo que grupos al servicio del
alcalde priísta están amedrentando con armas de guego a los brigadistas que
resguardan las barricacas. Nosotros sólo tenemos piedras y ellos armas de
fuego", dijo.

De acuerdo a las primeras informaciones, en Calicante se registró una
balacera y aparte del periodistas muerto y el fotógrafo herido, tres
personas más resultaron heridas.

El reportero fue herido en el estómago, y falleció antes de llegar a un
hospital.

Tanto en Calicante como en el municipio de San Antonio, ambos conurbados a
la capital, priva un ambiente de tensión, debido a que en ambos grupos de
appistas que resguardan las barricadas y de supuestos guardias blancas se
encuentran separados por un centenar de metros y se corre el riesgo de un
enfrentamiento mayor.

Los brigadistas se mantienen agazapados tras las barricadas y de acuerdo
con la información, uno de ellos se encuentra herido sin posibilidad de
ser
trasladado a un centro de atención.

http://www.jornada.unam.mx:8080/ultimas/matan-a-documentalista-de-eu-en-oaxaca-un-fotografo-herido

INDYMEDIA:

http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/849305.shtml
Federal Police and Paramilitaries attack the barricades near Oaxaca's
office of justice, in the Calicante municipality. There aresereveal
injured and one person dead.

Indymedia New York's reporter, BRAD WILL, was shot in the chest and die
before get the hospital, while Oswaldo Ramírez, photographer for Milenio
Diario, has also been shot and is injured in the foot.

THIS IS WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR ABOUT BRAD FROM A PERSON WHO WAS THERE WITH HIM:
- He was at the Santa Lucia Barricade
- He was shot from a distance of 30-40 meters right in the pit of the
stomach
- They say it was urban paramilitary priistas in plain clothes who shot him
- People then pulled him away to safety; its confirmed that he's dead; his
body is at the red cross in oaxaca
- 3 additional dead (4 total); 1 member of radio universidad was injured, he
went to the hospital in a volkswagen cuz no ambulances would come


More information: English report
NarcoNews (english) - CML - La Jornada - IMC México

Radio APPO steaming now | Live (spanish) coverage at CML

Other spanish media
milenio.com - reforma.com


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