Brad Will, New york Documentary Filmaker and Indymedia Reporter Assasinated by Pro-Government Gunshot in Oaxaca

The APPO Installs 1,000 Barricades in Broad Daylight; PRI Militants and Police Respond with 21 Armed Attacks.

OAXACA CITY: In the face of a renewed civil strike established in this capital city yesterday [Friday, October 27, 2006] by the popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oxaca (APPO), groups of gunmen linded to three minicipal mayors from the Institional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lauched a "cleansing" ot the barricades and building occupations that opponents of the PRI Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz have been maintaining for months.

The result: three people killed, eleven wounded, two disappeared, one detained by the Mininsterial Police and hundreds of shell casings left scattered along the streets as a testimony to the 21 shootouts that occured yesterday [Friday, October 27, 2006] in the city. This capital city has already been under siege for 154 days, but since 6:00 yesterday morning the city was now truly besieged, just as the APPO leadership collective has warned would happen as part of their attempts to win the ouster of the PRI governor.

Join the people of Oaxaca to demand:

STOP THE KILLINGS AND REPRESSION AGAINST TEACHERS AND THE PEOPLE OF OAXACA!!

Press Conference: Monday, October 30, 2006, 12:00 PM
In front the Mexican Consulate (Park View & 6th Street, Los Angeles)

Demonstration, Thursday, November 2 from 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM
In front of the Mexican Consulate (Park View & 6th Street, Los Angeles)

Protest in front of the Mexican Consulate, October 28 at 5 PM (Photos by Marcus)

Oaxaca City in the Indypendent