Remembering Slain Independent Journalist Brad Will in Oaxaca, Mexico Santiago Navarro F. - Upside Down World
go to original November 10, 2013

I Really Like the Cops - Brad Will (zdroberts)

William Bradley Roland, aka Brad Will, an independent journalist from Indymedia New York went to the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in 2006. Like many other alternative or independent media producers, Will sought to break the media siege that the mass media had created, which downplayed or reduced the number of people mobilized in the more than five month uprising that shook the state in 2006.  This uprising saw an actual number of more than two million people with over 3,000 barricades erected. Thus, on October 27, 2006, while conducting his work, a bullet from state-hired thugs, snatched his life.

"We will never forget compañero Brad because he is in our hearts and in our history, like the other 26 compañeros that were murdered by the state." expressed Mrs. Carmen Martinez, who prepared for a march and rally that is organized annually by the residents and groups in the Calicanto barricade that remembers Brad Will and demands justice for him and the other 26 other protesters that were killed and who have yet to receive justice.

... It's been seven years since mega-marches erupted throughout the state, but for the people of Oaxaca who lived and shared the experiences behind the barricades, in broadcasting, in the massive demonstrations, festive protests, over cups of coffee, and threats of wooden clubs (the weapons of violent groups), it all feels very recent, like yesterday.

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Translated by Clayton Conn

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