In this clip, Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno shares with us words of hope upon recently being release from prison. He was imprisoned for over 16 months for being wrongfully accused for the murder of Bradley Will, Indymedia journalist, who was documenting a mobilization in Oaxaca during the 2006 APPO movement.

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Audio 1:

Juan Manuel: Friends, today I have obtained my liberty.  This liberty has been thanks to all you, therefore today I want to give thanks to the teachers union (seccion 22), to all the organizations that form the APPO, to el puebo, the priests, and especially my family and lawyers: Gilberto Lopez, Alba Cruz, and Maria Libia.  They carried out a legal defense while you carried out  a political defense.  But also I want to tell you companeros that I am not the only prisoner, that there are still political prisoners, from many other places, like the companeros of Loxicha and the companeros of Xanica.  Thank you companeros. 

protesters: Right on!!!!

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Community member: We are here outside of prison.  There are many people, media, friends.  The family of Juan Manuel is inside, so are members of the teacher's union (seccion 22) who have supported politically for all these months the liberty of Juan Manuel to demand of the liberty of Juan Manuel and punish the murderers of 2006 and other political demands.  So we find ourselves here waiting for Juan Manuel to come out free and we are making  demands and denouncing all of the situacion of impunity that there is in the state of Oaxaca.