Nick Cooper went to Mexico City to receive an award for Brad and he was interviewed twice — once before his trip by a radio station in Phoenix, and also during his trip on KPFT Houston.
Great piece by journalist Clarence Page. One mistake: his implication that Amnesty International opposed the Merida Initiative. They didn’t; they supported it on ‘condition’ that it included notoriously inadequate human rights safeguards. Even though the final bill did not have even these safeguards, Amnesty refused to issue a statement of opposition to the Merida Initiative.
Sad testament to that human rights organization.
RJ
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080629/OPINION03/806290306
Drug wars next door
As if our military didn’t have its hands full in Iraq and Afghanistan, the head of the Minuteman Project border security group seems to think they might also make good narcotics cops.
Minuteman cofounder Jim Gilchrist suggested in recent radio interviews that the U.S. give Mexico 12 months to corral its criminal drug cartels and rising violence, particularly in border towns like Juarez and Tijuana — or deploy the U.S. Army to do the job. (more…)
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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
Please join us this Friday for a screening of the new film “Brad, One More Night at the Barricades” (50 min). Brazilian filmmaker and media activist Miguel will be hand to discuss his documentary tribute to a fallen friend.
When Mexican paramilitary forces shot Brad Will in the chest, killing him, his camera fell from his hands. But it didn’t stop recording. (more…)
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.
WHEN: 7PM, Tuesday, Jan 16
WHERE: 4 W 43 Ste. 311
In lieu of a meeting where we sit around in a circle, we will be having a non-meeting where we eat, see the movie “Indypendent” (by Amy Wolf, and about the Indy) and talk about Indymedia and radical journalism.
This would be a perfect meeting for new or nearly new volunteers to come to, and to bring their friends to, if interested.
THE INDY
(Also, read the new issue, www.indypendent.org)
