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 INU.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.

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.

More information

http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2223.html

http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/5821

http://www.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/849305.shtml

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/77757.html

http://portland.indymedia.org/

http://de.indymedia.org/2006/10/160286.shtml

Radio APPO (Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca) is streaming, and

feels it will be attacked soon and calls to build barricades,

http://radio.indymedia.org:8000/appo.mp3.m3u

irc.indymedia.org #nyc and #mexico

Protest actions are planned in several places, watch out for announcements.

Please help put pressure on the mexican government to stop the attacks.

So far there are two dead and many wounded.