5 posts tagged brad_will

Urgent: Stop "Plan Mexico" Congress to vote this week on Merida Initiative Witness for Peace, Mexico May 12, 2008 One bill. Two wars. As early as tomorrow, Congress will vote on a bill to continue funding two failed wars: Iraq and the "war on drugs." This week Congress will likely vote on a supplemental appropriations bill dominated by Iraq war funding.

Although one hates to be a pessimist, the coming year is still looking grim for journalists in Mexico. Despite the fact that the numbers of murdered journalists declined last year, levels of violence against them are on the rise and the Government is showing no increase in willingness to investigate

in the end, our names are not important. our stories are. after all, a name is the marker of personal glory. but it was brad who helped teach me that personal glory is not the most important thing. when he was killed in the line of his personal fate and story, in the midst of bringing truth to us

‘Alternative media’ in Oaxaca, Mexico, means graffiti, not the internet. Nancy Davies comments on the latest meeting of Oaxacan journalists this weekend on NarcoNews.com. Many issues were discussed, including the lack of unity amongst journalists and the increasing violence against the profession.

Writers, journalists and non-governmental organisations have called the Supreme Court’s decision at the end of last week a ‘disgrace’. The Court ruled that the rights of journalist Lydia Cacho’s had not been sufficiently violated to warrant legal action against Puebla State Governor Mario Marin.