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Edited on Fri Nov-03-06 03:06 PM by personman
As fellow media makers and artists, we are writing to honor the memory of independent journalist, filmmaker, and respected activist Brad Will, who was brutally murdered while filming the grassroots popular movement in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Along with Brad, six other people were killed this past week by officials of the illegitimate government of Ulises Ruiz and the federal forces that are now occupying Oaxaca. Among them were: Emilio Alonso Fabián (professor), José Alberto López Bernal (nurse), Fidel Sánchez García (construction worker) and Esteban Zurita López.
We are extremely alarmed to see that rather than cracking down on the violent paramilitaries who have been launching regular attacks on the people of Oaxaca, President Vicente Fox is using these murders as a pretext for escalating violence against the popular grassroots organization of the people of Oaxaca.----*snip*---- List of signatories: Michael Albert Tariq Ali Anthony Arnove Stanley Aronowitz Daniel Berger John Berger Noam Chomsky Mike Davis Roisin Davis Bernadine Dohrn Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Eve Ensler Gustavo Esteva Eduardo Galeano Danny Glover David Graeber Michael Hardt Sonali Kolhatkar Naomi Klein Anna Lappe Anthony Lappe Camilo Mejía Alessandra Moctezuma Michael Moore Mira Nair Antonio Negri Oscar Olivera Francis Fox Piven John Pilger Katha Pollitt Arundhati Roy Jeremy Scahill Danny Schechter Wallace Shawn Starhawk Gloria Steinem Jonathan Tasini Alice Walker Howard Zinn http://www.friendsofbradwill.org/wp-content/plugins/petitions/wp-petitions.php?action=show&petition_id=2">Read more...
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