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| Laboryes |
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:13 am
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Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1967 |
When the bullets started to fly, New York photojournalist Bradley Will was clutching a camera, doing what he loved most - filming a group of downtrodden people fighting for respect in some forgotten corner of our world.
This was last Friday, on a narrow street on the outskirts of Oaxaca, Mexico, where Will, 36, a longtime member of New York's radical IndyMedia Center, had gone in early October to document an amazing story. Read More: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/jgonzalez/story/467259p-393057c.html _________________ "When people refuse to obey, then democracy comes alive." Howard Zinn |
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| Laboryes |
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:49 pm
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International Action Center / Centro de Acción Internacional
Founded by / Fundado por Ramsey Clark 5C - Solidarity Center - 55 West 17th Street - New York, N.Y. 10011 212-633-6646 - fax 212-633-2889 iacenter@action-mail.org; En Español: IAC-CAI@action-mail.org www.IACenter.org Friday, November 3, 2006 STOP IMMEDIATELY THE REPRESSION IN OAXACA! The U.S.-based International Action Center condemns the criminal attacks that the government of Gov. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz and President Vicente Fox are committing against the people of Oaxaca, more specifically against the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). We denounce the murders, the arbitrary detentions, the use of tanks, helicopters, teargas and heavily armed police to suppress the just demands of the Oaxaquan people, including the murders of 19 people so far, among them, U.S. Indymedia journalist Brad Will, and the detention of 120 people. We also denounce the attack against the students and their families in and near the Autonomous University of Benito Juárez. We also blame the government of the United States for its complicity by silence regarding this great crime. This is no surprise because it is the same government which has declared a war against the Mexican people, whether in Mexico or in its Diaspora, by approving 2.2 billion dollars to construct an apartheid wall between the two countries. The United States is the true culprit in this situation through the robbery of the Mexican people, which began with the theft of their land and has continued with economic impositions (policies) like NAFTA which have destroyed the economy that sustained thousands of families, forcing them into exile and particularly into emigrating to the U.S. The people of Oaxaca have the inalienable and legitimate right to defend themselves from this barbarism perpetrated by the government, its police and paramilitary forces. Therefore, we demand an immediate end to the repression, the immediate release of all the detainees, the withdrawal of the Preventive Federal Police and the punishment of all in charge of this crime against humanity. Therefore we join our voices to those from Mexico and the entire world that demand the resignation of Governor Ulises Ruiz. We support the call from APPO calling for finding an immediate exit from the crisis through dialogue and not through military action. At the same time we send our firm solidarity to the people of Oaxaca from the heart of the empire and will do everything in our hands to disseminate news of this horrible crime so that the international pressure will become a generating force of solidarity for peace with social justice. President Vicente Fox Quesada, Fax: +52 (55) 5516 9537 / 5573 2126, E-mail: radio@presidencia.gob.mx webadmon@appresidencia.gob.mx Lawyer Carlos Abascal Carranza, Secretary of Government, Fax: +52 (55) 5093 3414. cabascal@segob.gob.mx Mexican Newspapers: http://www.lajornada.unam.mx http://www.eluniversal.com.mx http://www.milenio.com/mexico _________________ "When people refuse to obey, then democracy comes alive." Howard Zinn |
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