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Friends of Brad Will Meet with Mexican Diplomat
by Nick
Monday, Oct. 27, 2008 at 10:50 AM
nickcooper--at--indymedia.org
In front of the Mexican Consulate, we met with passers-by, the press, and a officer of the embassy to promote our message of Justice for Brad!
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Our Demands on the 2nd Anniversary of Brad’s Death [edit]
Arrest the Killers
When Brad was killed, the people photographed firing guns at the
protesters were police, police commanders, and operatives and
bodyguards for the PRI party, including Pedro Carmona, Abel Santiago
Zarate aka “El Chino,” Juan Carlo Soriano aka “El Chapulin,” Commander
Manuel Aguilar Coello, and Juan Sumano. They are directly linked to
the corrupt Governor Ulises Ruiz, and we demand their arrest.
Drop False Charges, Release Political Prisoners
Since Brad’s death, Ulises Ruiz’ government has been attempting to
bring charges for Brad’s killing against Brad’s friends, APPO people,
witnesses, and those who risked their lives trying to get Brad to a
hospital. We join the National Commission on Human Rights, and
Reporters Without Borders in finding these attempts to be an absurd
and outrageous attempt to divert attention from the real killers. We
demand an end to this smokescreen and the punishment of innocent
people including Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno, Hugo Colmenares Leyva,
and Octavio Perez Perez.
Justice for Brad, Freedom for Oaxaca
Brad is only one of dozens of activists, reporters, civilians, and
unarmed people killed by the State response to the Oaxacan movement
for justice and freedom. Friends of Brad Will not only demands
justice for them, but demands what they demand: the end of corrupt
brutal rule by Ulises Ruiz.
No to Neo-Liberalism and Femicide
We join in solidarity with the friends and family of Marcella Sali
Grace Eiler, an international solidarity activist working with CIPO,
Colectivo Mujer Nueva and with the witnesses of Brad’s death who was
found brutally raped and murdered September 26th 2008 in San Jose del
Pacifico in the state of Oaxaca. Her death is part of an escalation of
violence against women in an era of neo-liberal trade agreements and
drug wars. We demand an end to the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA), the Central America-Dominican Republic-United
States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), and Plan Puebla Panama
(now known as the Mesoamerica Project), and to the the cultural and
political systems that have permitted the raping and killing of women.
No to Plan Mexico
A year almost to the day after Brad was murdered, the Bush
Administration announced the Merida Initiative (aka Plan Mexico),
providing at least $1.6 billion in US armament, training, and
resources to the same police and military forces that killed Brad and
many other activists and journalists in Mexico and Central America
under the pretense of stopping narco-trafficking. Already the weapons
have been used in massacres and repression of activists in Morelos and
Chiapas. Along with the AFL-CIO, the United Steelworkers, Tikkun,
Wespac, Witness for Peace, Cispes, and Jews for Racial and Economic
Justice, The Friends of Brad Will demand and end to the Merida
Initiative.
friendsofbradwill.org
meeting with the diplomat
by Nick
Monday, Oct. 27, 2008 at 10:50 AM
nickcooper--at--indymedia.org
video: MPEG at 5.2 mebibytes
friendsofbradwill.org
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