There was much interesting discussion, sharing of perspectives and strategy.
We broke out into working groups and reported back to the whole.
Some participants: group picture.
These can be discussed at your next Friends of Brad Will meetings across the country and/or just carried out as your local groups see fit (feel free to contact FoBW folks in NYS and California to coordinate/strengthen efforts):
1. Organize to participate in an SPP (Plan Mexico) Counter-summit in New Orleans for the time around April 21-22nd.
2. Sign-on statements for organizations to express opposition to Plan Mexico and SPP and then provide to press/representatives.
3. Resolutions by municipal - city or state - governments.
4. Initiate a referendum/vote on Plan Mexico/SPP.
5. A call-in day to Congress/Parliament(s).
6. Set up individual meetings with Congress/Parliamentary representatives or their staffers.
7. Candidates questionnaires: circulate/request answers to questions by McCain, Obama, Clinton campaigns re. trade/security/human rights and publicize results.
8. Your ideas here.
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Team Spider Television will be airing:
“BRAD: One More Night at the Barricades” in 2 parts….
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This a great opportunity to reach a different audience, email anyone you know, their parents, their rich uncle… who live in the borough of manhattan, and tell them to set their DVR’s ( if they have money for cable, they probably have DVR ;-)
it is also viewable as a live stream/ same time, thru mnn.org
Free The Mapuche Political Prisoners!
1/29/08 NYC……Protest the Chilean Consulate!!!
Tues. Jan. 28th, 2008 10am!
For 500 years, The Mapuche have resisted the colonial oppressors. Whether,
Spain or Argentina or Chile the history of this proud nation has been one
of resistance and struggle.
Under Pinochet, the Chilean government enacted terrorism laws against some
forms of dissent and protest.
Much like our incarcerated freedom fighters here in the United States, the
Mapuche have fallen victim to these laws, laws similar to the current
“Anti -Terror” initiatives being practiced and implemented here.
Political Prisoner Patricia Troncoso has been on a hunger strike for 105
days in protest of her incarceration and of these “anti-terror” laws.
REMEMBER MATIAS CATRILEO!!!
YOUNG MAPUCHE ACTIVIST MURDERED BY THE CHILEAN POLICE…
SUPPORT PATRICIA TRONCOSO AND FREE THE MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS!!!
JOIN US!
SUPPORT THE MAPUCHE STRUGGLE IN CHILE!!!
Tuesday, January 29th, 2007…10am
CHILEAN CONSULATE: PROTEST @ 10AM TUESDAY , JANUARY 29TH
866 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA, SUITE 601, NEW YORK, NY 10017.
Primera Avenida (1° Avenue) esquina East 48th. Street
(Hay una sucursal del Citibank en el primer piso del edificio).
We will assemble and have a press conference addressing the Chilean
government and the treatment of the Mapuche Nation.
We will deliver letters in support of the Mapuche Nation and in critique
of the Bachelet government.
NO!! TO THE CHARGES OF TERRORISM ON MAPUCHE FREEDOM FIGHTERS!!
FREEDOM FOR THE MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS!!
SUPPORTED BY: ( ADD YOUR NAME TO THE LIST AND FORWARD!)
Colectivo:Miguel Enriquez
Movimiento la Peña del Bronx
Rebel Diaz
Colectivo:Joaquin Murieta
Pueblo Afroamericano-Latino
Miristas chilenos y Latinoamericanos.
directions:
Estación de SUBWAY más cercanas:
- Estación Lexington/53° Street: Línea E (Azul), Línea 6 (Verde) y Línea V
(Naranja).
- Grand Central Station: Líneas 4, 5 y 6 (Verde); Línea 7 (Violeta) y
Línea S (Gris)
this is a test
http://www.friendsofbradwill.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/church-groupbraddc.thumbnail.jpg
thanks!
Outside Vicente Fox’s presentation at Houston’s Wortham Theater last night, two groups showed up to protest.
On the right side of the street were Border Watch with a strange sign comparing immigrants “sucking” on America’s society to a baby sucking on a nipple. On the left side of the street, members of Grupo MAIZ (the International Movement of Zapatista Adherents) and Friends of Brad Will held signs and denounced human rights abuses that took place in Oaxaca, Atenco and Chiapas under Fox.
Kriser Screening Room, Dept. of Anthropology
(First floor, 25 Waverly Pl.)
In the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, indigenous video makers are
engaged in coverage of human rights violations, social unrest, and
indigenous demands, as well as exploring new visions of media use
through cultural preservation and collective production. Three award-
winning producers from the area will screen clips and discuss the
social role of media in their communities:
Mariano Estrada (Tseltal), from Palenque, Chiapas, produces
documentary videos with Comité de Defensa para la Libertad Indígena
(CDLI), an organization that supports indigenous rights in Chiapas,
Mexico. His video Rostro de la Historia Indígena won Best Documentary
at the Geografías Suaves festival in Mexico in 2004. He received a
National Video Resources Media Arts Fellowship in 2002.
Sergio Julián (Mixtec) of Ojo de Agua Comunicación in Oaxaca City, is
a video maker and web master who has been closely involved in media
training and production in indigenous communities in Oaxaca for over
a decade. He will discuss the Mal de Ojo collective, which emerged
from the teacher’s strike in June 2006 to document the protests and
repression of the largest social movement the city has seen.
Pedro Daniel López (Tsotsil), from Zinacantán, Chiapas works in
indigenous communication with Proyecto Videoastas Indígenas de la
Frontera Sur. His most recent video, K’evujel ta Jteklum/Song of our
Land has screened at numerous international festivals in Chile,
Mexico and the US. He is a 2006 recipient of the Media Arts grant
from Re:Media (ex-National Video Resources).
Presented by Dept. of Anthropology / Center for Media Culture &
History / Center for Latin American & and Caribbean Studies in
conjunction with the 13th Native American Film & Video Festival,
National Museum of American Indian (Nov. 30 – Dec. 3).
