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Greetings NAME Members,
 
This string of messages was sent to me, and I'm forwarding to you to raise  
awareness of a tragic event taking place in Mexico.  Below are all the  
messages in their entirety. 
 
Gina Boltz, Director
Native Village Publications
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 (http://www.nativevillage.org)  
 
         Subject: Massacre Under Way in Oaxaca  Date: 10/28/2006 2:41:17 P.M. 
Eastern Daylight Time  From: _ghwelker3 at comcast.net_ 
(mailto:ghwelker3 at comcast.net)    
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Sent from the Internet _(Details)_ (aolmsg://01088ad8/inethdr/1)  
 
Right now, in this very moment, state policemen dressed in civil clothes  are 
atacking the barricades mantained by the Oaxacan people and their teachers.  
They are shooting them with machine guns and the teachers and the people are  
defending themselves with stones and machetes. It is a real massacre orginized 
 by the ulises ruiz administration (Oaxcan Governor). There are many teachers 
 hurted and at least one American reporter from New York City (Indymedia), 
killed  by the State police. The local Red Cross is not caming to attend the 
urgent help  calls because they have got orders from the state goverment not to 
do it. Please  help all concerned.  -- message from Oaxaca
 
we are now at three dead and thirty wounded -- Fri  Oct 27, 2006
 
 
At Least Three Killed by  Police, Including U.S. Indymedia  Journalist

Massacre Under Way in  Oaxaca 
URGENT ALERT – PROTEST SATURDAY,
OUTSIDE MEXICAN  CONSULATE IN NYC 
OCTOBER 27, 11 p.m. – In response to a  state-wide work stoppage in Oaxaca, 
Mexico today, plainclothes police and gunmen  linked to state governor Ulises 
Ruiz have unleashed a bloody massacre. So far  today, there are at least three 
people confirmed dead, and reports of two more  killed, with scores wounded in 
the shooting. Among the dead are Brad Will, a video journalist for Indymedia, 
and the teacher Emilio  Alonso in San Bartolo Coyotepec, near Oaxaca city, 
where 23 others were shot.   
The Internationalist Group is  issuing this bulletin to alert unionists and 
others in the U.S. of the need for  urgent action. A protest has been called 
for tomorrow, Saturday, October 28, at  3 p.m. outside the Mexican consulate at 
27 East 39th Street in Manhattan. We  urge people elsewhere in the country to 
likewise protest outside Mexican  government installations denouncing the 
massacre.  
According to Radio APPO, the radio  station of the Popular Assembly of the 
Peoples of Oaxaca, truckloads of armed  paramilitaries are entering the state 
capital. During the afternoon motorcycles  and pick-up trucks with plainclothes 
ministerial police roamed through the city.  As part of the ongoing strike by 
the state teachers union, now in its sixth  month, there are hundreds of 
barricades in Oaxaca city and strikers are calling  to reinforce the barricades and 
resist the “caravans of death.”   
Seventy thousand teachers have been on strike in the  state since May 22. 
They have been joined by the APPO, including representatives  of the 16 
indigenous peoples in the state. The struggle has convulsed Mexico, as  several 
thousand teachers and APPO strikers marched on Mexico City, where they  have been 
camped out in front of the Senate. 
Yesterday, under heavy pressure from the right-wing  federal government of 
Vicente Fox, the teachers union, Section 22, SNTE-CNTE,  voted by 30,000 to 
20,000 to go back to work. However, they made this  conditional on receiving 
guarantees of safety for the strikers against threats  by the murderous state 
governor Ruiz and his PRI (Institutional Revolutionary  Party) which has ruled the 
state for the last 75 years. This massacre is the  government’s answer. 
There have been repeated solidarity demonstrations  with the Oaxaca strikers 
in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere in the U.S., as  well as 
internationally, from Barcelona, Spain to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where  teachers called for 
workers’ strikes against the repression in Mexico. Now is  the time for 
international working-class action.  
News stories on the killings are available on the web  sites of Indymedia 
(_http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml_ 
(http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml) ),  NarcoNews (_http://www.narconews.com/_ (http://www.narconews.com/) ), 
the  Mexico City daily La Jornada (_http://www.jornada.unam.mx:8080/ultimas_ 
(http://www.jornada.unam.mx:8080/ultimas) ),  El Universal 
(_http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/noticias.html_ (http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/noticias.html) ). 
For more information, call (212) 460-0983 or (917)  209-4380. 
  
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Brad Will, New York Documentary Filmmaker  and Indymedia Reporter, 
Assassinated by Pro-Government Gunshot in Oaxaca While  Reporting the Story 
 
Photographer Oswaldo Ramirez of the Daily Milenio  Wounded in Attack by 
Shooters for Ulises Ruiz Ortiz in Santa Lucia El Camino 
 
By Al Giordano 
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in  Chihuahua 
 
October 27, 2006
 
Brad Will, 36, a documentary filmmaker and reporter for Indymedia in New  
York, Bolivia and Brazil, died today of a gunshot to the chest when  
pro-government attackers opened fire on a barricade in the neighborhood of Santa  Lucia El 
Camino, on the outskirts of Oaxaca, Mexico. He died with his video  camera in 
his hands.
               
Brad Will in Chetumal, Quintana Roo
Photo: D.R. 2006  Narco NewsBrad went to Oaxaca in early October to document  
the story that Commercial Media simulators like Rebecca Romero of Associated  
Press distort instead of report: the story of a people sick and tired of  
repression and injustice, who take back the government that rightfully is  
theirs. In that context, his assassination is also a consequence of what happens  
when independent media must do the work that Big Media fails to do: to tell the  
truth. My friend and colleague since 1996 when we labored together at 88.7 FM 
Steal This Radio on New York’s Lower East Side, I bumped  into him again in 
Bolivia in 2004 during a public reception held by the Narco  News School of 
Authentic Journalism, and again on the Yucatán peninsula last  January where he 
came to cover the beginnings of the Zapatista Other Campaign –  Brad died to 
bring the authentic story to the world. 
Brad went to  Oaxaca in early October knowing, assuming and sharing the risks 
of reporting the  story. His final published article, on October 17, titled _“
Death in Oaxaca,”_ (http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/77343.shtml)   
reported the assassination of Alejandro García Hernández on the barricades set  up 
by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO, in its Spanish  
initials). Brad wrote: 

“…went walking back from alejandros barricade with a group of  supporters 
who came from an outlying district a half hour away—went walking  with angry 
folk on their way to the morgue—went inside and saw him—havent seen  too many 
bodies in my life—eats you up—a stack of nameless corpes in the  corner—about 
the number who had died—no refrigeration—the smell—they had to  open his skull 
to pull the bullet out—walked back with him and his people   
“…and now  alejandro waits in the zocalo—like the others at their plantones—
hes waiting  for an impasse, a change, an exit, a way forward, a way out, a  
solution—waiting for the earth to shift and open—waiting for november when he 
 can sit with his loved ones on the day of the dead and share food and drink  
and a song—waiting for the plaza to turn itself over to him and burst—he 
will  only wait until morning but tonight he is waiting for the governor and his 
lot  to never come back—one more death—one more martyr in a dirty war—one 
more time  to cry and hurt—one more time to know power and its ugly head—one 
more bullet  cracks the night—one more night at the barricades—some keep the 
fires—others  curl up and sleep—but all of them are with him as he rests one 
last night at  his watch…”

 Brad Will’s Assassins  | Photo: D.R. 2006 El  Universal
Last September  26, Brad, on his way to Mexico, wrote me: 

“hey al
it brad from nyc—it would be great to get yr narco  contacts in oaxaca—i am 
headed there and want to connect with as many folks as  posible—are you in df?—
i should be stopping though there and it would be  great
to go out for a drink
solid
brad”
Knowing of Brad’s  hard luck covering other stories (he had been beaten by 
police in New York and  in Brazil doing this important but dangerous work), his 
difficulty with the  Spanish language, and of the greater risk for independent 
reporters who haven’t  been embedded over time (and thus known by the people) 
in Oaxaca, I pleaded with  him not to go, to instead go to Atenco and report 
on the story there of the  arrival of Zapatista comandantes: 

“Our Oaxaca team is firmly embedded. There are a chingo of other  
internacionales roaming around there looking for the big story, but the  situation is 
very delicate, the APPO doesn’t trust  anyone it hasn’t known for years, and 
they keep telling me not to send  newcomers, because the situation is so fucking 
tense… If you are coming to  Mexico, I would much more recommend your hanging 
around DF-Atenco and  reporting that story which is about to begin. The APPO  
is (understandably) very distrustful of people it doesn’t already know. And we 
 have enough hands on deck there to continue breaking the story. But what is  
about to happen in Atenco-DF needs more hands on  deck.”
Brad replied that  same night, undeterred: 

“hey
thanks for the quick get back—i have a hd professional  camera—i have heard 
reports about the level of distrust in oax and it is  disconcerting—i think i 
will still go—i wont tell them you sent me and i am  open to other suggestions 
on how to spend my time—i dont know what is  happening in atenco in the 
coming days—i may connect with la otra capitulo dos  somewhere along the way—great 
to hear from you—do you have a cell / phone  number?
solidaridad
b rad”
I was not  surprised that he decided to go to Oaxaca anyway. Brad had always 
taken risks:  whether riding freight train box cars across the North American 
plain, or  bunkering in his Fifth Street squat in 1996 when police and the 
wrecking ball  invaded, his life had been one of courage. I gave him my cell 
phone number in  case of emergency. He wrote back on October 7, three weeks  ago: 

“hey al
brad here—thanks for the contacts and info—i landed in  df feeling
pretty ill and then came straight to oax and am plugged in—if  you want to 
share your contacts down here it would be very helpful—i think I  will stay down 
here for a month—nancy said you had a contact with a human  rights lawyer who 
might help journalists not get deported – please help me  with that 
information as well—i know you are busy and look forward to seeing  more of your work
peace
b rad”
In those emails  are the words of a valiant compañero who, knowing full well 
that this story  could be his last, decided to share the risks with the people 
whose cause he  reported. 
Also sharing the  risks today in Santa Lucia El Camino, Oaxaca was 
photographer Oswaldo Ramírez of  the daily Milenio, wounded by gunfire. It was Milenio 
reporter Diego Osorio who  confirmed the news of Brad’s death at 4:30 this 
afternoon. He also said that in  another corner of the city, outside the state 
prosecutor’s office, gunmen fired  at other APPO members, that three were 
wounded, and that  one schoolteacher is reported dead, but was unable so far to 
confirm that  report. 
Photo: D.R. 2006 El  Universal
Brad Will was  known and liked throughout the hemisphere, and in its media 
centers from New  York to Sao Paulo to Mexico City. Tonight his body lies in the 
same Oaxaca  morgue he visited and wrote about last week. He will not go 
silently into the  long night of repression that the illegitimate governor Ulises 
Ruiz Ortiz,  President Vicente Fox and his illegitimate successor Felipe 
Calderon have  created in Oaxaca, and, indeed, in so much of Mexico. It was 
inevitable that  soon an international reporter would join the growing list of the 
assassinated  under the repressive regimes of Mexico (others had already been 
_raped and beaten in  Atenco_ 
(http://www.narconews.com/Issue41/article1827.html) , only to be _deported_ (http://www.narconews.com/Issue41/article1802.html)  
from the  country last May). Tonight it was Brad, doing the responsible and 
urgent work,  video camera in hand, of breaking the Commercial Media  blockade. 
Speaking at a  public meeting of the Other Campaign in Buaiscobe, Sonora, 
when the news came in  about Brad’s death, Zapatista Subcomandante Insurgente 
Marcos, upon receiving a  briefing of the day’s events in Oaxaca, told the public 
and the  press: 

“We  know that they killed at least one person. This person that they killed 
was  from the alternative media that are here with us. He didn’t work for the 
big  television news companies and didn’t receive pay. He is like the people 
who  came here with us on the bus, who are carrying the voices of the people 
from  below so that they would be known. Because we already know that the 
television  news companies and newspapers only concern themselves with governmental  
affairs. And this person was a compañero of the Other Campaign. He also  
traveled various parts of the country with us, and he was with us when we were  in 
Yucatán, taking photos and video of what was happening there. And they shot  
him and he died. It appears that there is another person dead. The government  
doesn’t want to take responsibility for what happened. Now they tell us that  
all of the people of Oaxaca are mobilizing. They aren’t afraid. They are  
mobilizing to take to the streets and protest this injustice. We are issuing a  
call to all of the Other Campaign at the national level and to compañeros and  
compañeras in other countries to unite and to demand justice for this dead  
compañero. We are making this call especially to all of the alternative media,  
and free media here in Mexico and in all the  world.”
Tonight, from the  Oaxaca City Morgue, Brad Will shouts “Ya Basta!” – Enough 
Already! – to  the death and suffering imposed (as Brad, a thoughtful and 
serious anarchist,  understood) by an economic system, the capitalist system. His 
death will be  avenged when that system is destroyed. And Brad Will’s 
ultimate sacrifice  exposes the Mexican regime for the brutal authoritarian violence 
that the  Commercial Media hides from the world, and thus speeds the day that 
justice will  come from below and sweep out the regimes of pain and repression 
that system  requires. Brad gave his life tonight so that you and I could 
know the truth. We  owe him to act upon it, and to share the risks that he took. 
Goodbye, old  friend. Your sacrifice will not be in vain. 

Update, 10:30 p.m. Oaxaca: The Popular Assembly of the Peoples  of Oaxaca 
(APPO) has confirmed that schoolteacher Emilio Alfonso Fabián has  died from 
three bullet wounds after an attack by shooters for Ulises Ruiz  Ortiz outside the 
state government palace.
Kristin  Bricker reported for this story from Sonora 
_Click here for more from  The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign_ 
(http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo/en.html)  
_Enter the  NarcoSphere for comments on this article_ 
(http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/10/27/21584/774)  
_http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2223.html_ 
(http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2223.html)  

  
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PRESS  RELEASE

For Immediate Release

October 28, 2006, 12:40 a.m.  Contact:
Beka Economopoulos, (917) 202-5479
Brandon Jourdan, (646)  342-8169
Eric Laursen, (917) 806-6452

WILLIAM BRADLEY ROLAND, U.S.  JOURNALIST/CAMERMAN, KILLED BY OAXACA
PARAMILITARIES – KILLER ID'D - ACTIONS  BEING PLANNED IN U.S.

William Bradley Roland, aka Brad Will, a U.S.  journalist and camerman,
was shot and killed yesterday in Oaxaca, Mexico, by  paramiliaries
affiliated with the PRI, the former Mexican ruling party. Will  was in
Oaxaca covering the continued resistance of teachers and other  workers
against the PRI-controlled government of the State of Oaxaca.  According
to reports from New York City Independent Media Center and La  Jornada,
Will, 36, was shot at the Santa Lucia Barricade from a distance of  30-40
meters in the pit of the stomach by plainclothes paramilitaries and  died
while enroute to the Red Cross.

Centro de Medias Libres  (_http://vientos.info/cml_ (http://vientos.info/cml) 
) in Mexico City reports
that from Will's  recovered videiotapes, they have identified his killer
as a paramilitary  named Pedro Carmona, ex-president of Felipe Carrillo
Puerto de Santa Lucia  del Camino, a colonia in Oaxaca.

At last report, Will was one of five  people who died in the last day,
along with 17 wounded, as paramilitaries and  federal police poured in to
retake the city, according to Centro de Medias  Libres. The city had been
in the hands of the workers for five months. Will  is the first American
to be killed in the months-long confrontation. A  longtime journalist and
activist, he covered land occupations in the Pacific  Northwest of the
U.S., direct actions and rebellions in Argentina and  Ecuador, land
occupations in Brazil, and anti-privatization struggles in  Bolivia. He
was a much-beloved figure in the global justice movement in the  U.S. and
leaves behind many grieving friends.

Friends of Brad in the  U.S. will be calling actions in the next day to
demand that the U.S. State  Department press the Mexican government to
investigate Brad's murder and  address the terroristic regime that made
it possible. Additionally, they will  press for solidarity in the U.S.
with the Mexican movement for social justice  that Brad gave his life to
document in Oaxaca.

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_http://www.oaxacarevolt.org/_ (http://www.oaxacarevolt.org/) 
 
To get more involved:
 
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From: "Judith Ancel" <_jancel at igc.org_ (mailto:jancel at igc.org) >
Date: October 28, 2006 12:37:35 AM CDT
Subject: Oaxaca: 5 teachers have died, 2 kidnapped, one foreign reporter  
killed?



Dear  Friends: 
I am a  member of the board of The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, 
a  Mexican-US-Canadian coalition based in San  Antonio TX. One of CJM's  
member organizations, MUSA, is in Oaxaca and has been  supporting the striking 
teachers and the civil strike demanding the resignation  of Governor Ulises Ruiz 
since last spring. At 11:30 this evening CJM sent out  this alert. 
It is  urgent that you act immediately and send an email to Mexican President 
Fox. I  have put a sample letter at the bottom. If you read Spanish, you can 
find more  information at:  
_http://www.jornada.unam.mx:8080/ultimas_ 
(http://www.jornada.unam.mx:8080/ultimas)  
Judy  Ancel 
Dear  CJM members, 
 
We  just got a desperate text of the cell phone of Rosario Garcia of Union 
Woman  Association MUSA from Oaxaca. 
The  repression against the teacher that we were afraid of that could happen 
just  happened right now 
Please  send out an Emergency Alert 
The  Ulises Ruiz government use violence against the people operating the 
radio  station Planton. 
They  are threatening to use the military forces against the teachers and 
APPO, for  now the government has installed a radio station supporting Ulises  
goverment. 
There  was a lot of support for the teachers by the people 
Ulises  government has responded with violence now, 
Shooting  at the barricade of the people in the main plaza 
There  are many injured 
They  chased all the people away from the government facility where a 
permanent  demonstration [planton] was located 
There  are rumors that 5 teachers have died and two have been taken. We don't 
know  where they are 
A  foreign reporter has also been reported killed 
I  don't know what will happen tonight 
We  are all scared. ROSARIO  IS PLEADING 
We  desperately need international support! 
Send letter to  President Fox in the email below 
and tell him we are  watching them and to stop the repression and violance 
against the people of  Oaxacaand the teachers union  local #22 
and resolve the  conflict peacefully 
Please forward to all  your contacts 
thank  you 
Martha  Ojeda 
_vicente.fox.quesada at presidencia.gob.mx_ 
(mailto:vicente.fox.quesada at presidencia.gob.mx)  
Sample  letter (please write your own) 
Dear  President Fox: 
For months  we have been worried about the massing of repressive force 
threatening the  teachers union and APPO in Oaxaca by state  authorities of Governor 
Ulysses Ruiz. Now it appears they have begun the  repression against people 
operating radio station Planton and shooting at  people in the plaza. 
Newspapers are reporting that primary school teacher  Emilio Alonso was gunned down and 
that Indymedia reporter Brad Will was shot  in the chest and killed in the 
municipality of  Calicante and a  photographer Oswaldo Ramirez was shot and 
wounded. There are rumors that other  teachers have been shot and killed and that 
there are many injured. 
Is your  government planning to repeat the shame of the massacre at 
Tlatelolco in 1968,  which people around the world still remember?? We are watching 
with alarm. We  urge you in the strongest terms to stop the repression and 
violence against  the people of Oaxaca and the  teachers union. You must use your 
power to stop Governor Ruiz from committing  a massacre. 
Judy  Ancel 
Cross  Border Network 
Kansas  City, Missouri 
_jancel at igc.org_ (mailto:jancel at igc.org) 

 
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_http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2223.html_ 
(http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2223.html) 
_http://indybay.org//newsitems/2006/10/27/18323886.php_ 
(http://indybay.org//newsitems/2006/10/27/18323886.php) 
_http://indybay.org//newsitems/2006/10/27/18323885.php_ 
(http://indybay.org//newsitems/2006/10/27/18323885.php) 
_http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas_ (http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas) 

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Subject: friend and  companero brad was  killed

Our friend, brother, and companero, Brad Will  was killed  today by
paramilitaries in Oxaca Mexico.

Brad has been an   inspiring and passionate militant, joining struggles all
over the world,  from  land occupations in the Pacific North West of the US,
to direct  actions against  global capital, to rebellions in Argentina,  land
occupations in Brazil, and  anti-privatization struggles in  Bolivia. Brad
was always a part of whatever he  was in. He was always  with people, not
organizing them. He taught me, and so  many others so  much through example.
He will be missed in so many  ways.

Brad  was a part of our communities. We should remember him with the  love
and  affection that he showed, and we feel. We should also carry on
with   direct action to stop those that are trying to stop social creation,
in the  US,  Mexico, Argentina, and the globe.

brad Presente!
brad   presente!
brad Presente!

Brad's last email dispatch  ...

early  dawn, oct16
yesterday i went for a walk with the good  people of oaxaca -- was  walking
all day really -- in the afternoon they  showed me where the bullets  hit the
wall -- they numbered the ones they  could reach -- it reminded me of  the
doorway of amadou diallos home --  but here the grafitti was there
before  the
shooting began -- one  bullet they didnt number was still in his head --  he
was 41 years old  -- alejandro garcia hernandez -- at the  neighborhood
barricade every  night -- that night he came out to join his wife  and sons
to
let an  ambulance through -- then a pickup tried to follow -- he  took  their
bullet when he told them they could not pass -- they never did --   these
military men in civilian dress shot their way out of  there

a  young man who wanted to only be called marco was with them  when the
shooting  happened -- a bullet passed through his shoulder --  he was clearly
in shock  when we met -- 19 years old -- said he hadnt  told his parents yet
-- said he  had been at the barricade every night  -- said he was going back
as soon as  the wound closed --  absolutely

just days before there was a delegation of  senators  visiting to determine
the ungovernability of the state -- they got a   taste -- the call went out
to
shut down the rest of the government --  dozens  went walking out of the
zocalo city center with big sticks and a  box full of  spray paint -- they
took control of 3 city buses and went  around the city all  morning visiting
local government buildings and  informing them that that they  were closed --
and we appreciate your  voluntary cooperation -- and they filed  out
preturbed
but still  getting paid -- shut -- as they pulled away from the  last stop 3
gunmen  came out and started shooting -- 2 buses had already  pulled away  --
mayhem -- 10 minute battle with stones and slingshots and  screaming  -- one
headwound -- another through the leg -- made their way to  the  hospital
while
the fighting continued -- shout out on the radio and   people came from all
parts -- the gunmen were around the side of the  building  -- they got away
--
they were inside -- no one sure --  watchful  --  undercover police were
reported lurking around the  hospital and folks went  running to stand watch
over the  wounded

what can you say about this  movement -- this revolutionary  moment -- you
know it is building, growing,  shaping -- you can feel it  -- trying
desperately for a direct democracy -- in  november appo will  have a state
wide conference for the formation of a state  wide  assemblea estatal del
pueblo de oaxaca (aepo) -- now there are 11 of 33   states in mexico that
have
declared formation of assemblea populares  like  appo -- and on la otra lado
in the usa a few -- the marines have  returned to  sea even though the
federal
police who ravaged atenco  remain close by -- the  new encampment in mexico
has begun a hunger  strike -- the senate can expell  URO -- whats next
nobodies sure -- it  is a point of light pressed through  glass -- ready to
burn or show the  way -- it is clear that this is more than  a strike, more
than expulsion  of a governor, more than a blockade, more than  a  coalition
of
fragments -- it is a genuine peoples revolt -- and  after  decades of pri
rule
by bribe, fraud, and bullet the people are  tired -- they  call him the
tyrant
-- they talk of destroying this  authoritarianism -- you  cannot mistake the
whisper of the lancandon  jungle in the streets -- in every  street corner
deciding together to  hold --  you see it their faces  --  indigenous,  women,
children -- so brave -- watchful at night -- proud and   resolute

went walking back from alejandros barricade with a group  of  supporters who
came from an outlying district a half hour away --  went  walking with angry
folk on their way to the morgue -- went inside  and saw him  -- havent seen
too many bodies in my life -- eats you  up  -- a stack of  nameless corpes in
the corner -- about the  number who had died -- no  refrigeration -- the
smell
-- they had to  open his skull to pull the bullet  out -- walked back with
him
and  his people

and now alejandro waits in  the zocalo -- like the others  at their plantones
-- hes waiting for an  impasse, a change, an exit, a  way forward, a way out,
a solution -- waiting  for the earth to shift  and open -- waiting for
november when he can sit with  his loved ones on  the day of the dead and
share food and drink and a song --  waiting for  the plaza to turn itself
over
to him and burst -- he will only  wait  until morning but tonight he is
waiting for the governor and his lot to   never come back -- one more death
--
one more martyr in a dirty war --  one  more time to cry and hurt -- one more
time to know power and its  ugly head --  one more bullet cracks the night --
one more night at the  barricades -- some  keep the fires -- others curl up
and sleep -- but  all of them are with him as  he rests one last night at  his
watch

uro= Ulises Ruiz Ortiz "governor"  of the state of  oaxaca
planton= sit in, vigil, encampment
zocalo= central   plaza

more info:
_http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2180.html_ 
(http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2180.html) 
_http://mexico.indymedia.org/tiki-index.php?page=DesalojoOaxaca_ 
(http://mexico.indymedia.org/tiki-index.php?page=DesalojoOaxaca) 
_http://www.oaxacalibre.org/libertad/_ (http://www.oaxacalibre.org/libertad/) 
_http://elenemigocomun.net/_ (http://elenemigocomun.net/) 
_http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oaxacastudyactiongroup/messages_ 
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oaxacastudyactiongroup/messages) 

'In  sum, we are an army of dreamers, and therefore  invincible. How can we
fail to  win, with this imagination overturning  everything. Or rather, we do
not  deserve to lose.'
- Subcomandante  Marcos
Seamos realistas, hagamos lo  imposible ~  che


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