Friends of Brad Will interview with Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno video
Friends of Brad Will interview with Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno
On March 24, 2010, approximately one month after he was released, Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno sat down with Friends of Brad Will member Mark Read in Oaxaca for a twenty-minute interview. This is the second half of that interview, in which he addresses the friends and family of Brad Will. Please take a look, share it with others and take action on his behalf.

The rule of impunity Mexican gov. ignores overwhelming evidence to charge 2 Oaxacan activists with Brad Will's murder
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PHOTO: IN BROAD DAYLIGHT: Moments before Brad Will was shot and killed October 27, 2006 in Santa Lucia del Camino, Oaxaca, Mexico, several local officials were filmed and photographed firing in the direction of Brad and anti-government protesters. (From left to right) Juan Carlos Soriano Velasco, a municipal police officer, town official Orlando Manuel Aguilar Coello and Abel Santiago Zarate, a member of the state government. Aguilar Coello and Zarate were both briefly detained after Brad’s death but were soon released when Oaxacan authorities mistakenly asserted that the two bullets that killed Brad did not come from a .38 revolver like the ones that both men were using that day.

Letter to Obama from family of Juan Manuel Martinez framed for Brad Will's murder
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Oaxaca, Oax, Mexico
July 31, 2009

TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Dear President Obama,

Maria Libia Martinez Moreno and the Martinez Tejada family wish, by means of this letter, to comunícate to you our concern regarding the homicide case of Bradley Roland Will. We send this in the hope that our plea for help will reach you, by way of the U.S. Embassy.

On October 27, 2006 the journalist, Bradley Roland Will, a U.S. citizen from Evanston, Illinois, was filming for the news agency Indymedia, a march by the Oaxaca social movement, as it proceeded toward the municipality of Santa Lucia del Camino, just outside the city of Oaxaca. During the demonstration violence broke out between some demonstrators and groups made up of public servants and sympathizers of the PRI party. Bradley was injured by a firearm and subsequently died.

The first reports of the murder of Bradley indicated that the crime had been committed by Abel Zarate, a town councilor of the municipality of Santa Lucia del Camino, as well as by Oswaldo Manuel Aguilar Coello, a municipal police officer, both of whom had strong links with the PRI party, the party in power in the state of Oaxaca.

Religious leaders speak out
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So we hope that you will consider these concerns that we have expressed. We thank you for the attention that you give this matter.

cc: Secretary of State, United States, Ms. Hillary Clinton

Secretary of Government, Mexico, Mr. Fernando Gómez Mont.

Sincerely,

Priests, Pastors, Religious Sisters and Brothers

United States:

Abbot Edmund Boyce, OSB, St. Benedict's Abbey

Amy W. Echeverria, Director, Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach

Br. John A. Kerr, TOR
Br. Mark Carrico, OFM, Capuchin, Executive Director, House of Peace
Br. Mark Gehret, OFM
Br. Michael Gosch, CSV
Br. Rich Reinhardt, OFM Cap.
Hermes Kreilkamp
Catherine Moloney
David Buer, ofm/ San Xavier Mission/ Tucson, AZ, St. Barbara Province,
Franciscans,
Denise Ryman
Fr Donald MacKinnon CSsR, social justice coordinator for Redemptorists
/Denver Province
Fr Roland Lozano, C.M.F., Pastor, Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church
Fr. Abbot Claude Peifer, O.S.B., St. Bede Abbey
Fr. Al Hirt, OFM
Fr. André Weller, Cap
Fr. Aquinas R. Schneider, OFM
Fr. Bill Remmel, SDS, Most Holy Trinity Parish, Tucson, AZ
Fr. Brian Braun OFM Cap
Fr. Charles T. Mocsiran, OFM Cap, Province of St. Augustine
Fr. Dan McLaughlin, MM
Fr. David G. Schultenover, S.J., Department of Theology, Marquette University
Fr. Donald F. Reilly, O. S. A. , Prior Provincial, St. Thomas of Villanova
Province of Augustinians
............and many more

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