[WCUSP] Fwd: [sds] Arrests at the Mexican Consulate in NYC (Breaking News)

[Odile Hugonot Haber]

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From: Thomas Good <tmgood at loveandstruggle.net>
Date: Oct 30, 2006 12:38 PM
Subject: [sds] Arrests at the Mexican Consulate in NYC (Breaking News)
To: SDS Announcements <sds at lists.mutualaid.org>
Cc: Movement for a Democratic Society <mds at lists.riseup.net>


Arrests at the Mexican Consulate in NYC
October 30th, 2006 by Thomas Good

New York, NY - October 30, 2006.  A 9 AM protest was called today
at the Mexican Consulate in response to the murder of NYC IMC
photojournalist Brad Will on October 27, 2006, in Oaxaca, Mexico.
At this point (12:00 EDT) about a dozen arrests were reported to
NLN by SDSers on site.  Arrestees are being processed at the 13th
Precinct (230 East 21st Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, Phone:
212.477.7411). A call has gone out for jail support - activists
are requested to come to the 13 Precinct.

Brad Will was working as a journalist for the global Indymedia network.
He was shot in the torso while documenting an armed, paramilitary
assault on the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, a fusion
of striking local teachers and other community organizations demanding
democracy in Mexico.  His death caused outrage in the activist community
and today's protest drew approximately 150 participants, according
to SDS NYC.

Members of the Pace and Brooklyn College chapters were at the
scene when NYPD officers began to make what appeared to be random arrests.
One SDS member was injured when he was thrown to the ground by a uniform
for no apparent reason.  This Brother reported that "Inspectors were giving
conflicting orders" to uniforms making for a chaotic situation.

An IndyMedia journalist reported that: "The action began with a banner drop.
Three people locked themselves to the consulate door, breaking it, and had
to be sawed off, leading to multiple arrests.  IMC videographer Brandon
Jourdan lay down in the street in front of the consulate and blocked traffic.
Was arrested; it took six cops to get him up. IMC photographer Erin Siegal
possibly arrested for taking photos."

According to SDSers the police had batons out, were "poking people with their
batons", and were very aggressive.  Pens were set up quickly and people herded
into the pens.  About a dozen activists were arrested and taken to the 13th
Precinct in Gramercy.  One man allegedly climbed a phone pole and it required
NYPD ESU to bring him down.  A few activists apparently chained themselves to
the door to the consulate and police resorted to sawing them free, breaking the
door in the process and, according to one observer, injuring one of the
activists who had a series of lacerations on her face.

SDS is calling for all activists in the NYC area who are able to do so to come
to the 13th Precinct - and be prepared to vigil at 100 Centre Street (Central
Booking) should the arrestees be arraigned there.





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Thomas Good, Organizer
SDS New York City
NYC War Resisters League
IWW x358303 / IU 560

www.studentsforademocraticsociety.org
www.myspace.com/loveandstruggle
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