BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18324514 SEQUENCE:18331257 CREATED:20061030T064200Z DESCRIPTION:http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/29/18324498.php\n\n\nAmericas | San Francisco\nMONDAY 7AM AT MEXICAN CONSULATE!!!\nby via list \nSunday Oct 29th, 2006 9:27 PM \n\nMANY of us will be meeting at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco \nTOMORROW (532 Folsom St.), at 6:45am, to send a strong message to the \ngovernment of Mexico, that we will not allow this savage attack on our \nbrothers and sisters in Oaxaca to be taking place and have business go on as \nusual.\n\n(PLEASE HELP FORWARD THIS!!!) \n\nFriends, Comrade, to everyone who cares about the struggles for justice in \nOaxaca: \n\nMANY of us will be meeting at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco \nTOMORROW (532 Folsom St.), at 6:45am, to send a strong message to the \ngovernment of Mexico, that we will not allow this savage attack on our \nbrothers and sisters in Oaxaca to be taking place and have business go on as \nusual. \n\nTonight and tomorrow at 9pm, we are meeting up at Station 40 (3030B 16th \nStreet, in front of 16th/Mission Street Bart) to make banners, signs, and \nplans for the upcoming days. We really hope you can join us and help make \nthis much stronger with your participation and support. Please bring \nanything that you think would be useful, but if you can't, we will have some \nsupplies here as well. \n\nAnd please remember to invite others to come to the benefit for Oaxaca this \nWednesday at 7pm at Station 40 \nhttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/26/18323440.php \n\nOaxaca Vive! La Lucha Sigue! \n\nPS- There will also be a demonstration at 5pm on Tuesday, Oct. 31, at the \nMexican Consulate. And you can join the electronic blockade of Mexican \nconsulate websites here: http://www.mountainrebel.net/oaxaca/ \n\n---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- \nSubject: Police Now Assaulting Oaxaca / NYC-IMC Response \nto the Death of Brad Will \nFrom: "Reclaim The Commons" reclaimthecommons [at] gmail.com \n-------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n\nSo here is NYC-IMC's response below; meanwhile according to Reuters, \n"Thousands of riot police backed by helicopters and armored trucks broke up \nbarricades to take control of Mexico's popular tourist city of Oaxaca on \nSunday, firing water cannons to disperse leftist protesters." Dan Feder at \nNarcoNews reports, "Police are advancing with water cannon tanks and riot \nshields. They have cleared several barricades but others are holding their \nground. Whether or not police are armed is unclear, but there have been \nseveral reports on the movement station Radio APPO of PFP officers beating \nprotesters. The station also reports that snipers are flying low over the \ncity in three helicopters. Leaders continue exhorting the people to resist \nbut to abstain from any violence against the police." \n\nNYC-IMC says they "reject the use of further state-sponsored violence in \nOaxaca" -- but further state-sponsored violence is now happening in Oaxaca. \nSo given this reality, I think we have no excuse not to take whatever action \nwe can locally, whether it's shutting down Mexican consulates or something \nelse, to protest & stop this situation... \n\n>cienega wrote: \n>NYC folks say they will be issuing a press release later this afternoon, so \nhopefully that can help guide messaging >and information for individual \ndemonstrations. tonight they are just organizing a vigil. \n\nTHE NEW YORK CITY INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER \nRESPONDS TO THE DEATH OF BRAD WILL \n\nOctober 29, 2006 \nNew York City \n\nBrad Will was killed on October 27, 2006, in Oaxaca, Mexico, while \nworking as a journalist for the global Indymedia network. He was shot in \nthe torso while documenting an armed, paramilitary assault on the \nPopular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, a fusion of striking local \nteachers and other community organizations demanding democracy \nin Mexico. \n\nThe members of the New York City Independent Media Center mourn the loss \nof this inspiring colleague and friend. We want to thank everyone who \nhas sent condolences to our office and posted remembrances to \nhttp://www.nyc.indymedia.org. We share our grief with the people of our city \nand beyond who lived, worked, and struggled with Brad over the course of \nhis dynamic but short life. We can only imagine the pain of the people \nof Oaxaca who have lost seven of their neighbors to this fight, \nincluding Emilio Alonso Fabian, a teacher, and who now face an invasion \nby federal troops. \n\nAll we want in compensation for his death is the only thing Brad ever \nwanted to see in this world: justice. \n\n* We, along with all of Brad's friends, reject the use of further \nstate-sponsored violence in Oaxaca. \n\n* The New York City Independent Media Center supports the demand of \nReporters Without Borders for a full and complete investigation by \nMexican authorities into Oaxaca State Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz's \ncontinued use of plain-clothed municipal police as a political \nparamilitary force. The arrest of his assailants is not enough. \n\n* The NYC IMC also supports the call of Zapatista Subcomandante \nInsurgente Marcos "to companeros and companeras in other countries to \nunite and to demand justice for this dead companero." Marcos issued this \ncall "especially to all of the alternative media, and free media here in \nMexico and in all the world." \n\nIndymedia was born from the Zapatista vision of a global network of \nalternative communication against neoliberalism and for humanity. To \nbelieve in Indymedia is to believe that journalism is either in the \nservice of justice or it is a cause of injustice. We speak and listen, \nresist and struggle. In that spirit, Brad Will was both a journalist and \na human rights activist. \n\nHe was a part of this movement of independent journalists who go where \nthe corporate media do not or stay long after they are gone. Perhaps \nBrad's death would have been prevented if Mexican, international, and US \nmedia corporations had told the story of the Oaxacan people. Then those \nof us who live in comfort would not only be learning now about this 5 \nmonth old strike, or about this 500 year old struggle. \n\nAnd then Brad might not have felt the need to face down those assassins \nin Oaxaca holding merely the ineffective shields of his US passport and \nprensa extranjera badge. Then Brad would not have joined the \nfast-growing list of journalists killed in action, or the much longer \nlist of those killed in recent years by troops defending entrenched, \nunjust power in Latin America. \n\nStill, those of us who knew Brad know that his work would never have \nbeen completed. From the community gardens of the Lower East Side to the \nMovimento Sem Terra encampments of Brazil, he would have continued to \ntravel to where the people who make this world a beautiful place are \nresisting those who would cause it further death and destruction. Now, \nin his memory, we will all travel those roads. We are the network, all \nof us who speak and listen, all of us who resist. \n\n\nThe New York City Independent Media Center \nhttp://www.nyc.indymedia.org \n4 W. 43rd St., Suite 311 \nNew York, N.Y. 10036 \nUSA / EEUU \n212-221-0521 \n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/29/18324514.php SUMMARY:SF: Protest Oaxaca Massacre & Murder of Brad Will LOCATION:Mexican consulate\n532 Folsom St. URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/29/18324514.php DTSTART:20061030T144500Z DTEND:20061030T174500Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR