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"Don Gabacho" <jpastore@nettaxi.com> wrote in message 
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> Protesters bombard Mexican Consulate over fatal shooting
> By Matthew Eisley
> McClatchy Newspapers
>
> RALEIGH - Several dozen people protesting the killing of an American
> journalist in Mexico last week stormed the Mexican Consulate in Raleigh
> on Monday.
>
> They banged drums, waved signs and demanded a meeting with consular
> officials. One protester locked himself to Consul Armando Ortiz-Rocha's
> second-floor office television by means of a U-bar around his neck
> until a police officer freed him.
>
> Few of the 200 Mexicans seeking help at the office with visas, worker
> permits and passports seemed moved by the clamor, one of more than a
> dozen simultaneous protests across the U.S.
>
> After Raleigh police cleared the building and U.S. State Department
> security agents arrived, four of the protesters met with Ortiz-Rocha
> for about an hour.
>
> They were protesting the fatal shooting Friday of Brad Will, an
> independent journalist and activist documenting a violent uprising
> against the government in the Mexican state of Oaxaca [pronounced
> oh-ah-WHOCK-ah]. Government officers are suspected in the shooting of
> Will and two residents, according to news reports.
>
> The five-hour protest and the brief morning occupation of his office
> did not amuse Ortiz-Rocha.
>
> "He said we had to leave," one of the four lead protesters, Monica
> Bhattacharya, said. "We said, 'No, this is too important.' He talked
> about how rude it was to come into his office. We said, 'Well, what's
> happening in Oaxaca is far more rude. This is tame.'"
>
> The protesters are part of a loosely organized opposition to
> authoritarian government and corporate news media power.
>
> Will was affiliated with an international "Indy Media" effort that
> seeks to report events from a personal viewpoint, instead of providing
> what its consumers view as spoon-fed news.

And you folks think you had trouble with Blacks, you ain't seen nothing 
yet!!!!!!!!!

Fred
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