U.S journalist-activist killed in Oaxaca to be honored in art

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Brad Will, the American independent journalist-activist shot dead more than two years ago while covering the social disturbances in Oaxaca, Mexico, for Indymedia, is to be honored as part of an exhibition in New York’s Bellwether Gallery.

‘If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever’ opens next week, and will feature ‘art and objects that reference the aesthetics, material culture and traditional gestures surrounding death and remembrance.’ A video by Tanyth Berkeley and Todd Chandler will remember Will, who was shot and killed during a teachers’ strike in Oaxaca. The depiction of his own fatal shooting was partially captured on his camera.

Will’s death remains a source of controversy on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. No one has ever been prosecuted for his death. Brad’s parents, Kathy and Hardy Will, who have campaigned tirelessly for justice since the death of their son, rejected an investigation into his death earlier this year which alleged that the journalist had been shot at close range.

The Wills believe that their son was shot by plainclothes government agents and have launched an independent investigation into the matter.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City