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Manifestações em solidariedade ao povo de Oaxaca

Em solidariedade ao povo de Oaxaca e em memória a Brad Will, diversos protestos surgiram ao redor do mundo em menos de 72 horas. Somente na segunda-feira, 30 de Outubro, ao menos 14 cidades americanas aderiram ao protesto. Em Nova Iorque, cerca de 11 manifestantes foram detidos. Na Europa, protestos ocorreram em Londres e em Barcelona o Consulado do México foi ocupado. No Brasil, manifestações estão sendo convocadas em diveras cidades: Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, São Paulo e Fortaleza.

Leia mais: Panfletos da manifestação no Rio em solidariedade a Oaxaca | [RJ] - Pichação no Consulado Mexicano denuncia assassinato de Brad Will | Mensagens de protesto no consulado mexicano do Rio de janeiro | Comunicado do EZLN sobre Oaxaca | [MPL-DF] carta de apoio aos povos de Oaxaca | Manifestação no Consulado do México

Oaxaca - Minute by Minute

The New York City Independent Media Center responds to the death of Brad WILL

Brad Will was killed on October 27, 2006, in Oaxaca, Mexico, while working as a journalist for the global Indymedia network. He was shot in the torso while documenting an armed, paramilitary assault on the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, a fusion of striking local teachers and other community organizations demanding democracy in Mexico.

The members of the New York City Independent Media Center mourn the loss of this inspiring colleague and friend. We want to thank everyone who has sent condolences to our office and posted remembrances to www.nyc.indymedia.org. We share our grief with the people of our city and beyond who lived, worked, and struggled with Brad over the course of his dynamic but short life. We can only imagine the pain of the people of Oaxaca who have lost seven of their neighbors to this fight, including Emilio Alonso Fabian, a teacher, and who now face an invasion by federal troops.

All we want in compensation for his death is the only thing Brad ever wanted to see in this world: justice.

• We, along with all of Brad's friends, reject the use of further state-sponsored violence in Oaxaca.
• The New York City Independent Media Center supports the demand of Reporters Without Borders 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 his assailants is not enough.
• The NYC IMC also supports the call of Zapatista Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos "to compañeros and compañeras in other countries to unite and to demand justice for this dead compañero." Marcos issued this call "especially to all of the alternative media, and free media here in Mexico and in all the world."

Indymedia was born from the Zapatista vision of a global network of alternative communication against neoliberalism and for humanity. 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.

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. Perhaps Brad's death would have been prevented if Mexican, international, and US media corporations had told the story of the Oaxacan people. Then those of us who live in comfort would not only be learning now about this 5 month old strike, or about this 500 year old struggle. And then Brad might not have felt the need to face down those assassins in Oaxaca holding merely the ineffective shields of his US passport and prensa extranjera badge. Then Brad would not have joined the fast-growing list of journalists killed in action, or the much longer list of those killed in recent years by troops defending entrenched, unjust power in Latin America.

Still, 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.

The New York City Independent Media Center
www.nyc.indymedia.org
4 W. 43rd St., Suite 311
New York, N.Y. 10036
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212-221-0521

Se cierra el cerco militar, policiao y paramilitar sobre Oaxaca

En estos momentos oaxaqueños organizados en la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO) están bajo ataque del gobierno federal mexicano. Más de 10 mil militares arremeten en las calles de Oaxaca contra la población, encabezando la operación tanquentas de agua, seguidas por filas de 3,500 policías granaderos con toletes y tras de ellos 3,000 policias militares con armas de fugeo largas; 5 mil militares del ejercito federal resguardan las entradas a la ciudad de Oaxaca y las cerranias de la zona Huasteca, mientras paramilitares siguen agrediendo poblados cercanos. Hay reportes de tanques militares a pocos metros de las manifestaciones pacíficas y de camionetas urbanas sin logotipo de la Agencia Federal de Investigaciones que permanecen en el aeropuerto internacional de Oaxaca, ahora convertido en base militar. Desde la mañana se reporta un muerto, pero sigue sin confirmarse.

El espacio aéreo ha estado cerrado los últimos dos días para vuelos comerciales y civiles, únicamente permitiendo la entrada de agentes federales y militares. Desde la mañana el ejercito cierra todas las carreteras que salen y entran a la capital del estado.

Ligas: Radio Universidad de Oaxaca/Radio APPO

Enlaces:: Centro de Medios Libres-DF | Indymedia-Oaxaca | Indymedia-Chiapas | Radio Zapote | Ke Huelga

Border Social Forum Converges in Ciudad Juarez

More than 900 people from 150+ organizations gathered in Ciduad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, for the first Border Social Forum. The BSF took place on the Mexico-US border with the backdrop of millions of migrants mobilizing in the US for full rights and increasing militarization after President GW Bush Jr's recent assignment of over 6,000 military troops of the National Guard to "secure" the border. Since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Ciudad Juarez has become the Mexican border city with the most maquiladora factories. The systemic violence of neoliberal globalization has manifested locally in an epidemic of femicide, as hundreds of poor young women have been brutally raped and murdered in Ciudad Juarez since 1993.

The BSF commenced on Wednesday the 12th of October with a March against NAFTA and Violence on the Border. john reports: The march from a local park in Ciudad Juarez to one of the main bridges had about 500 people. Representatives from a number of local grassroots organizations, from both sides were involved. Once at the center of the bridge was reached, a rally was held, attacking NAFTA and its effects on working people, on both sides of the border. [Full Story with Photos | Video ]

Indymediavrijwilliger, Brad Will, gedood bij een paramilitaire aanslag in Oaxaca

Bij een aanslag van de politie en paramilitairen tegen de barricades nabij het justitiegebouw van Oaxaca, in de gemeente Calicante. Hierbij zijn verschillende gewonden en vier doden gevallen.

Indymedia New York's reporter, William Bradley Roland, ook gekend als Brad Will, werd in de borst geschoten en overleed nog voor hij het ziekenhuis bereikte. Oswaldo Ramírez, fotograaf voor Milenio Diario, werd ook getroffen en is gewond aan zijn voet.

Dit weten we tot nu toe van Brad Will van iemand die bij hem was:
- Hij was aan de barricade bij Santa Lucia
- Hij werd neergeschoten van een afstand van 30 à 40 meter in zijn maagstreek
- Er werd verteld dat het paramilitaire piristas (noot: aanhangers van de Partido Revolucionario Institucional)
- Mensen trokken hem dan weg in veiligheid; het is bevestigd dat hij dood is; zijn lichaam ligt bij het Rode Kruis in Oaxaca
- 3 andere dodelijke slachtoffers (vier in totaal); 1 persoon van de Radio Universidad was gewond, hij moest met een gewone auto naar het ziekenhuis omdat ambulances niet wilden of mochten komen

Meer informatie: Engelstalig verslag
NarcoNews (Engels) - CML - La Jornada - IMC México

Radio APPO steamt nu (Spaanstalig) | Live (Spaans) verslaggeving bij het CML

Andere Spaanstalige media
milenio.com - reforma.com

Protest Against Bush Attack on Iran at Norfolk Atlantic Fleet Naval Base

On Sunday 1 October 2006, about 20-30 activists showed up [HRIMC report] [CASMII report] at the Norfolk Naval Base protesting against the sending of an armada of professional mass murderers' ships, led by the USS Eisenhower, to the Persian Gulf in order to kill people in Iran. One sailor driving into and out of the base confirmed that her group of murderers was being sent to the Gulf. Ironically, Eisenhower was the US president involved in Operation Ajax which in 1953 overthrew the elected Iranian prime minister Mossadegh.

The local peace and justice activists held up banners and signs outside Gate 5 of the naval base. Among the activists were members of Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran and military veterans.

The protest was aimed at direct communication with people likely to carry out or support the murders; it did not physically block the departure of the ships. It is expected that these ships of mass murderers have already arrived in the Persian Gulf (the expected arrival date was 21 October), but this has not yet been confirmed. Moreover, George W. Bush's 18 April 2006 televised threat to attack Iran with nuclear weapons, in line with the present US doctrine of usage of nuclear weapons, has not been withdrawn.

REPORTS: [1] [2] | flyer
GET ORGANISED! NOW! CASMII | online petition | stopwaroniran | iranbodycount | Tidewater Peace Alliance | Veterans for Peace | Iranian blogs | iransolidarity | Washington DC protest planned | Action Iran (London)
RECENT ANALYSES: Eleanor Ommani | Ramzy Baroud | George E. Hirsch | Scott Ritter | Noam Chomsky | 600,000 Iraqis killed | video: Kucinich/Kay/Gardiner statements/interview
WIKI ANALYSES: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Anti-war | Opposition to war against Iran

Major disruption to Weapons Conference in Wellington

200 people participated in successful blockades against the New Zealand Defence Industry Association (NZDIA) conference this Tuesday which was held at the National Museum in Wellington, Aotearoa. The museum was completely shut down for 4 hours by protesters linking arms and blockading eight museum entrances. No-one was arrested on the opening day despite big scuffles with the police who set up barricades and used batons against demonstrators. The blockades were sustained by Food not Bombs and music, a lot of chanting and chasing war profiteers and army personnel. [ Reports 1 | 2 | 3 | Timeline 17 Oct 2006 | 1 | 2 ]

12 activists were arrested on the Sunday before the weapons conference after a clown demonstration outside the house the head of the NZDIA. This was an attempt by the police to stop people from protesting against the 2-day conference. On the second day of the conference several protests took place. Two people were arrested at a noisy protest outside the museum where the conference participants had their 'Awards Dinner' (one for allegedly stealing a police hat).

Links: Aotearoa IMC | Peace Action Wellington | No WARP | Protests 2005

Gary Meyerhoff, Darwin and Perth Activist, passes away

Anti-racism and anti-Drug War activist Gary Meyerhoff died on 8 Oct 2006 at age 31 from HIV/AIDS related complications. His funeral was held in Western Australia at Pinaroo Gardens, Kingsley on 11 Oct 2006.

Gaz was diagnosed HIV+ at age 19.

Meyerhoff was probably most famous for his 2002 invasion of the NT Parliament along with 10 other NAPNT activists to protest 'drug house' legislation.

Meyerhoff also participated in and coordinated 'Smoke-Ins' at Raintree Park in Darwin. Trial for charges related to repeated arrests at the Smoke-Ins had been deferred due to Meyerhoff having a bout with pneumonia, but were still pending when Meyerhoff died.

Meyerhoff was long associated with the anti-Aboriginal-racism group PARIAH (People Against Racism In Aboriginal Homelands), famous for sqauatting the Country Liberal Party's name for their website:  http://www.country-liberal-party.com/

Gaz was a noisy irritant to his political foes, but a caring soul to all his mates.

Love Gary or hate him - you definitely couldn't ignore him.

LINKS: Gary's blog | media interviews | Network Against Prohibition Northern Territory

Aracruz uses media and billboards to get people against indigenous

"Aracruz brought progress. Funai*, the indians”. *Funai - Protection Agency for Indigenous Rights

Spreading works like that in billboards around Espírito Santo, the multinational corporation Aracruz Cellulose hopes to gain support from the general population to avoid the demarcation of 11 thousand hectares of indigenous land. The Minister of Justice Márcio Thomaz Bastos has approximately 4 days to sign a regulation declaring the area the property of the Tupinikim and Guarani communities, accused by Aracruz of not being true indigenous groups.

Besides the billboards, Aracruz has used local media to criminalise the indigenous movement. An example of that is the note written by the “entrepreneur and writer” Carlos Lindenberg Filho, one of the directors of Gazeta Television, a subsidiary of Globo TV in Espírito Santo. The multinational also gained the support from its workers through indirect threats of losing their jobs and the support of the local population in Aracruz County, where the people now react with fear of the supposed threats and violence from indigenous groups.

To write to the Minister of Justice Márcio Thomaz Bastos, to keep his word and sign the regulation to determine the limits of the Tupiniquim e Guarani land

artist Ana Amorim's letter to Gilberto Gil:: english and portuguese

Report made by Swedwatch - Swedish Pulp in Brazil: The case Veracel | Aracruz Billboards in Espírito Santo | Indymedia Brasil
Newspaper O Independente: Interview about Aracruz Celulose and Rede Alerta Contra o Deserto Verde (portuguese)

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