Oaxaca: When one falls, let 50 step forward…
Indymedia videographer Brad Will was recently killed in Oaxaca, while filming the People's struggles in that embattled Mexican city. IP #230 starts with the last thing Brad Will saw before dying. We bring you about 10 minutes of footage taken from his video camera. He was filming the moment he was shot. To keep this from being any more gruesome than it needs to be, there is no on-screen notice at the moment of impact. We bring you this footage as part of our commemorative to him–he died to get these shots–but also because it is exactly what we have always promised, "televising the revolution." This piece is grainy, it was transmitted by way of the internet, but profound. There are some interviews with citizens of Oaxaca, describing the terror they have been living with, and then Brad moves closer, to a battle between gun-toting thugs, and a community whose weapons are firecrackers and slingshots. It is a peephole into what happens if a community can't just call the police when a man with a gun starts sh…
Duration : 28 min 39 sec
What is your purpose in reserrecting something that didn’t happen “recently” — it was over three years ago!
Mr. Will, and I’m sorry he was shot and killed, put himself in harms way — he may not have deserved to die but he was stupid to be where he was. He was not serving any greater good by involving himself for his own moment of glory.
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