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Bradley Will

What they won't say about NAFTA and "Plan Mexico"

S.W. |
HILLARY CLINTON and Barack Obama are waging rhetorical war on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)--the free trade deal shepherded through Congress and signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993. Full Story  0 Comments

Bombing at Times Square Army Recruitment Center

T. Ward | IED explosion at recruitment facility shuts Times Square for a few hours early Thursday morning. Police are investigating possible connections between the explosion and other recent blasts in Manhatten. Full Story  32 Comments

Parents Seek Answers in Brad Will's Death in Mexico

JESSICA BERNSTEIN-WAX | The parents of an American journalist slain in
southern Mexico said Wednesday they were unsatisfied with the progress
authorities have made in the case and will have outside investigators
review video footage and forensic evidence.
Bradley Roland Will, a 36-year-old journalist-activist from New York,
was killed in October 2006 while filming unrest in Oaxaca state, where
protesters had been fighting for months to oust Gov. Ulises Ruiz for
alleged electoral fraud. Will recorded video and wrote dispatches for
indymedia.org in the month before his death. Full Story  4 Comments

White House Invades Mexico: Perfromance and Panel Discussion

Harry | An original Theater/Dance piece commissioned for the DREAMING THE AMERICAS / THE BODY POLITIC in Performance and : Plan Mexico: Impunity, the ‘Drug War’ and Human Rights in Mexico Full Story  3 Comments

Protesters Greet Calderon: Demand Human Rights for Indigenous Peoples

citizen multi-galactica | Protests against Calderon, Plan Mexico, NAFTA and the increase in repression being felt in Mexico at this time.

Big push against proposed Bush/Calderon 'security' pact currently being considered by the U.S. Congress. Full Story  2 Comments

Calderon a fraud Mexicans reject

Bradley Roland | Calderon stole the election to push through Plan Mexico and ensure that growing protests against NAFTA could be crushed. Full Story  1 Comments

WNU #934: FBI Arrests Machetero Suspect in Puerto Rico

Weekly News Update | "We don't know what condition our compañero is in at this point," Alvin Couto, an attorney and spokesperson for the Socialist Front of Puerto Rico, said on Feb. 10. Full Story  0 Comments

Disruption at Plan Mexico Hearing

kirby | Soon after a panel of representatives from Homeland Security, the Border Patrol, and other US officials was introduced at today's Congressional hearing on Plan Mexico, an activist from the Friends of Brad Will, stood up to challenge this plan to send weapons, counter-insurgency training, and other resources to the Mexican government. After a representative demanded that he be silent, he was carried by Capitol Police out of the crowded hearing room and arrested. Full Story  2 Comments

Stop "Plan Mexico"! Public Service Announcement, on YouTube, 3.5 minutes

Friends of Brad Will | Plan Mexico was hatched by Presidents
Bush and Calderon without any consultation from the US or Mexican
congresses.

Officially known as the Merida Initiative, Plan Mexico,is immediately
likened to the failures and violence of Plan Colombia that has led to an
increase in human rights violations and cocaine production.

Stopping Plan Mexico has been named by the Center for International
Policy as one of the top three challenges to protect attempts to build more
just and peaceful societies in Latin America. Full Story  0 Comments

Steelworkers SeeksHearings After Mexican Police Attack Miners: Stop Plan Mexico

uthor | The United Steelworkers (USW) today called for congressional hearings on President George W. Bush’s proposed “Merida Initiative” to provide $1.4 billion to Mexican security forces after federal and state police attacked striking workers at Grupo Mexico’s Cananea copper mine in Sonora, where ten union members were injured. A thousand federal police are now occupying the mine and the surrounding area. Full Story  0 Comments

Oaxaca Street Art 25 Nov 2007

John Gibler | Oaxaca Street Art 25 Nov 2007 Full Story  1 Comments

Benefit For Oaxaca, Wednesday 11/28th Brooklyn!

love and resistance | Benefit for Oaxacan Radio Projects:
Wednesday, November 28th 7:30pm
1087 Broadway, Brooklyn (J to Kosciusko)
Above Goodbye Blue Monday Full Story  1 Comments

15,000 Demonstrators Demand Closing of School of Americas

John Tarleton | Arriving at the gate, marchers attached crosses, photos, flowers and hand-written messages to an eight-foot high chain-link fence topped with three lines of barb wire. Before leaving, I tore a page out of my reporter’s notebook, wrote the name of an old friend— “Bradley Roland Will, 36, Indymedia”—rolled up the piece of paper and wedged it into the chain-link fence between three small white crosses that bore the names “Jesus de Antonio Garcia, Colombia”, “Israel Marquez, 80, El Mazote” and “34-year-old pregnant woman, El Salvador.” Full Story  1 Comments

Friends of Brad Will Launch Intervention at Congressional Hearing on Plan Mexico

NYC Indymedia Congressional Reporter | At the November 14th U.S. congressional hearing on the Merida Initiative which is part of Plan Mexico, four Friend's of Brad Will shifted the talk from a 1.4 billion dollar package to bolster Mexico''s security against narco-trafficing to a discussion on Mexican government impunity to commit human rights abuses against pro-democracy dissidents, labor activists, and journalists. Full Story  23 Comments

United Steelworkers union Opposes Plan Mexico

Friends of Friends of Brad Will |
The United Steelworkers
union announced today that it opposes handing Mexico what amounts to a
blank check for $500 million for border enforcement of drug
trafficking because it's likely the American tax dollars will instead
end up further undermining human and labor rights in Mexico. Full Story  0 Comments

Washington, DC Advocacy Trip a Success for Friends of Brad Will!

Friends of Brad Will | Washington, DC Advocacy Trip a Success for Friends of Brad Will!

Planning to Stop ‘Plan Mexico’

While Friends of Brad Will joined Brad’s family in D.C. to lobby for justice for his murder and for other people murdered in Oaxaca, Atenco and elsewhere, the Mexican authorities which Bush would like to lavish with ‘drug war’ money were busy arresting activists and mourners in Oaxaca.

Here is the report on our convergence on D.C. Full Story  2 Comments

NEW FILM by Contraimagen "The power of Oaxaca's Commune"

cimagen.blogspot.com | CONTRAIMAGEN PRESENTS The Power of Oaxaca’s Commune Oaxaca, El Poder de la Comuna A new film by Contraimagen Directed by Carlos Broun Camera: Leo Full length documentary filmed at Oaxaca, Mexico, during September 2006. HDV-DVCam. Spanish w/ English subtitles. 60 minutes. Full Story  0 Comments

Remembering Brad Will

imcista | (from the latest Indypendent) "Brad Will was a New York-based independent journalist who was killed on Oct. 27, 2006, while covering a teacher-led social uprising in the impoverished southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Before his death, Will, a freight-hopping, guitar-playing activist, had spent years on the frontlines of countless movements from efforts to save squats and community gardens in the Lower East Side to engaging in “tree-sits” for weeks at a time high in the canopy of Oregon’s endangered old-growth forests." || Remembering Brad Will || A Murder Not Forgotten

More from NYC Indymedia: Brad Will in Context || For Brad Will -- Against Plan Mexico || Brad Will is alive and now is living in the Rose Garden of Oaxaca || New acts of repression in Oaxaca || A Wonderful Remembrance of Brad || CJR Letter Full Story  0 Comments

Brad Will in Context

RJ Maccani | What does Brad Will's life and murder have to do with the over 500 year long struggle for freedom on Turtle Island? Full Story  0 Comments

For Brad Will - - - Against Plan Mexico

Robert Jereski | Join us in advocating and agitating to stop Bush-Calderon 'drug war' disaster: Plan Mexico.

Panel discussion: Impunity, the ‘Drug War’, and human rights in Mexico
Thursday 6-9 p.m. at St. Stephens’ Church
16th & Newton, Columbia Heights metro stop

Susan Mitchel - Brad's cousin
Renata Rendon - Mexico and Latin America desk, Amnesty International
Beehive Collective

and more! Full Story  2 Comments

Brad Will is alive and now is living in the Rose Garden of Oaxaca

Carlos Vigueras | Justice for Brad Will is an impossible dream. The Mexican goverment kill him with all the impunity and now everybody knows that is too late for more dreams. Full Story  0 Comments

POEM: for Brad Will

Mitchel Cohen | Poem Full Story  0 Comments

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