A weekend of gatherings, memorials, concerts and conversations will take place over the weekend of November 11th and 12th, in New York City, to remember our dear friend and fallen comrade Brad Will. A memorial will take place in St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery from 1:00pm-5:00pm on Saturday the 11th. Other events are also being planned. See the calendar of events below for details on concerts and teachins that will be taking place over the weekend. By all means come to New York City to be a part of the gathering. If you need housing, please write to bradmemorialhousing@gmail.com. If you would like to participate in the planning, please sign up to the discussion list from this site, and send a message to the list server. Read more »
A new sign-on support letter has been drafted. Signatories include Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Eve Ensler, Danny Glover, Eduardo Galeano, Michael Moore, Arundhati Roy, Alice Walker, Howard Zinn, and many others.
An excerpt:
We are extremely alarmed to see that rather than cracking down on the violent paramilitaries who have been launching regular attacks on the people of Oaxaca, President Vicente Fox is using these murders as a pretext for escalating violence against the popular grassroots organization of the people of Oaxaca.
Video:“Friends of Brad Will Shut Down The Mexican Consulate” Camera, Edit: Surplus Contact: surplus (at) notanalternative (dot) net, http://www.notanalternative.net
Here are two small but important details about Brad’s death:He was wearing an Indymedia t-shirt when he was shot. One bullet must have gone right through the (((i))). Maybe that shouldn’t matter to me, but it does. I have that t-shirt, as do many people I love. Second, Brad lived for nearly an hour after he was shot. The initial photos made it seem like he died on the spot. Other reports suggest he died minutes later on the way to a hospital. In fact, protesters carried his body for a long distance, drove a car until it ran out of gas, unsuccessfully tried to wave down a couple of trucks – it started to rain – and then, about five blocks from the Red Cross station, he died. I don’t know if this should matter either, but it does. Read more »
“Armed men in the service of Ulises Ruiz attacked one of the barricades installed in the Calicanto colony, near the municipality of Santa Lucia del Camino. During the armed aggression several people were wounded, and Bradley Will died after receiving a shot in the stomach. This edition corresponds to last fragments of video that the collaborator of indymedia made minutes before being killed by hired assassins of the governor of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz.” (translated from Spanish)
Events and Actions | admin 11/03/2006 | 
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