Does Cory Doctorow read boingboing?
Just because it made a funny headline department: A couple of hours ago Cory posted "IndyMedia reporter murdered by PRI gunman in Mexico." I'd link to it, but it was pulled off the boingboing. Why? I guess because some noticed thirteen hours previously Xeni Jardin posted "US video journalist killed in Oaxaca by paramilitaries"
Same story. Same photograph (slightly edited).
They even had time to update Cory's story before it was pulled. Ah, the wonders of the rush to post mentality.
You can read Cory's version after the jump. Unless I'm asked to remove it.
IndyMedia reporter murdered by PRI gunman in Mexico
from Boing Boing Blog by noemail@noemail.org (Cory Doctorow)
Cory Doctorow: Brad Will, an IndyMedia reporter, has been shot dead by PRI-affiliated gunmen while covering the ongoing labor revolt in Oaxaca:
William Bradley Roland, aka Brad Will, a U.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.
Centro de Medias Libres ( http://vientos.info/cml) 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.
Link (Thanks to everyone who suggested this story)
Update: A friend of Brad's sez, "This is Brad Will's final footage from Oaxaca, Mexico. It has been released under a Creative Commons license. Just over 16 minutes long it shows several interviews and ends with Brad's death. Also available as a torrent."
