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>On Nov 2, 2006, at 5:45 AM, paule@??? wrote:
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>>NYBMA (http://www.nybma.com/) is reporting a former Messenger Brad
>>Will, was shot and
>>killed reporting on the ongoing unrest in Oaxaca, Mexico, working
>>as a reporter for the IndyMedia News.
>>60 people rode bikes in N.Y. yesterday, to draw attention to Brad
>>getting murdered in Oaxaca.
>>Many of the people I work with here in L.A. are from Oaxaca.
>>This unrest has been going on since May. I picked up on it, Aug.
>>1st, when women took over the T.V. and radio station, with sheer
>>numbers (critical mass)with pots and pans.
>>I couldn't believe the lack of reporting of this story in the U.S.,
>>instead the main news media chose to talk endlessly about some
>>child molester.
>>Instead, our government chose to put up a wall between the U.S. and
>>Mexico.
>>Hmmm, the seeds of a revolution, and the American news stations are
>>all but ignoring it.
>>Thank you Brad Will, I will never forget.
>>What this has to do with messengers. Being a messenger may have set
>>his seeds to what he died doing.
>>I told all the folks I work with from Oaxaca, about Brad, and him
>>being a
>>former messenger, and what he died doing.
>>Thank you Brad,
>>PaulE
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>Yesterday we had a bike ride for Brad in NYC. Read about at
>www.bikeblog.blogspot.com...video to come soon. It was amazing
>despite the on going repression of cyclists in NYC. And they say the
>terrorists hate our freedom. I doubt it. They laugh at what little
>freedom we have left...Like the freedom to choose between Pepsi or
>Coke...or like yesterday the cops gave us the choice to have the
>right side of the street or the left. In a month they will pass laws
>which say that we have to apply for a permit to have 30 or more
>people ride bikes in the streets...this also includes
>races...although alleycats hardly need permission...it just gives
>them the excuse to lock us up. Some freedom huh. Please officer,
>can I have a bike ride. No? ok.
>
>This is all of what Brad Will fearlessly stood in opposition to. He
>wanted to tell the story of Oaxaca. He wanted to show a city where
>if they don't like their corrupt government...80,000 of them rise up
>and kick out the police and the Governor. Here in "free America"
>the "sheepeople" sit back and suck it up distracted by where
>celebrities will want to adopt babies and those that will vote (which
>is an embarassing less the half of the population) get their votes
>stolen by Republican run fraudulent electronic voting machines...Free
>America...NOT.
>
>Long Live Brad Will...support the popular uprising of Oaxaca.
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