Today in Labor History October 27, 2006: U.S. anarchist activist and journalist, Brad Will, was murdered by a government-affiliated paramilitary while covering the teachers’ strike in Oaxaca, Mexico. He was affiliated with Indymedia. In the 1990s, he worked as a teaching assistant to Peter Lamborn Wilson (a.k.a. Hakim Bey). He later moved to a squat in New York’s Lower East Side. He once participated in a protest against a proposed amendment to the Colorado constitution that sought to curtail gay rights, by pretending to marry another man, dressed in drag, with a parade in front of a Promise Keepers event in Boulder, Colorado. He was also active in Earth First, pirate radio, and other causes.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #bradwill #oaxaca #union #teachers #strike #assassination #mexico #paramilitary #deathsquads #anarchism #pirateradio #earthfirst #lgbtq

Just finished listening to a two hour podcast hosted by Margret Killjoy talking about the origins of IndyMedia
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cool-people-who-did-cool-96003360/episode/part-one-indymedia-how-lefty-techies-288597825
(some talk of @blaine, @rabble and #BradWill thru the lens of anarchist history)
Part One: Indymedia: How Lefty Techies and Journalists Reinvented the Internet - Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff | iHeart

<p>Margaret talks to Sarah Marshall about the Independent Media Centers that helped protesters build movements and changed how online communication happens.</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>https://daily.jstor.org/the-invention-of-journalistic-objectivity/</p> <p>https://daily.jstor.org/to-fix-fake-news-look-to-yellow-journalism/</p> <p>https://web.archive.org/web/20200304071058/http://www.infoshop.org/about-us/</p> <p>https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3485447.3512282#fig3</p> <p>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0163443720926039</p> <p>https://www.academia.edu/21814073/Indymedia_Journalism_A_Radical_Way_of_Making_Selecting_and_Sharing_News</p> <p>https://www.academia.edu/45052617/Indymedia_and_Media_Activism_at_the_Turn_of_the_Millennium</p> <p>https://crimethinc.com/2017/08/25/german-government-shuts-down-indymedia-what-it-means-and-what-to-do</p> <p>https://crimethinc.com/2022/10/28/the-billionaire-and-the-anarchists-tracing-twitter-from-its-roots-as-a-protest-tool-to-elon-musks-acquisition</p> <p>https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2022/09/11/jack-dorseys-former-boss-is-building-a-decentralized-twitter/</p> <p>https://libcom.org/article/sources-and-police-raid-bristol-indymedia</p> <p>https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/local-news-indymedia-network-25-anniversary.php</p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

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Today in Labor History October 27, 2006: U.S. anarchist activist and journalist, Brad Will, was murdered by a government-affiliated paramilitary while covering the teachers’ strike in Oaxaca, Mexico. He was affiliated with Indymedia. In the 1990s, he worked as a teaching assistant to Peter Lamborn Wilson (a.k.a. Hakim Bey). He later moved to a squat in New York’s Lower East Side. He once participated in a protest against a proposed amendment to the Colorado constitution that sought to curtail gay rights, by pretending to marry another man, dressed in drag, with a parade in front of a Promise Keepers event in Boulder, Colorado. He was also active in Earth First, pirate radio, and other causes.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #bradwill #oaxaca #union #teachers #strike #assassination #mexico #paramilitary #deathsquads #anarchism #pirateradio #earthfirst #lgbtq

sobre la Horizontalidad y otros demonios

Vimeo
Brad Will, the New York Journalist who Fell during Oaxaca’s Popular Revolt

Brad was there that day. In the first images he took, one can see that the SUV was already almost burnt to a crisp. In the distance there are people firing on protesters

I herby declare Mourning Monday (or Missing Monday) #MM
A day to post remembrances of people no longer on this plane of existence.

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🌕 #LyxIsh
🌖 #BradWill
🌗 #BeaNasaw
🌘 #PollyElizabeth
🌑 #AaronCapra
🌒 #DarshanoshkaLightingbolt
🌓 #AleaDupree
🌔 #AngeliqueGollinger
🌕 #MarkSpark

miss you #BradWill #RIP
@wildermann
I did not know about Brad Will. But perhaps we should take a tip from fiction. In the Discworld when someone was killed people kept the name alive By propagating that name we keep the memory alive .
GNU #BRADWIll
@HerraBRE