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FBI Crackdown on Antiwar Groups Targets Chicano, Brown Beret
Activist Carlos Montes
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http://www.democracynow.org/2012/5/16/fbi_crackdown_on_anti_war_groups
'Supporters of a longtime California activist, Carlos Montes,
rallied outside a courthouse in Los Angeles Tuesday calling on
authorities to drop his prosecution. Montes faces four charges,
including one for firearms possession that dates back to the 1960s.
A longtime leader in the Chicano, immigrant rights and antiwar
movements, Montes’ arrest in a May 2011 raid followed similar
FBI raids on activists in Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois
targeting fellow members of a political group called the Anti-War
Committee. "They’re attacking me for my activism against the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also because of my solidarity
work with oppressed people throughout the world, whether they be in
Palestine or Colombia or Mexico," says Montes, who plans to march
against NATO this weekend in Chicago. Montes helped organize the
Brown Berets and took part in the famous 1968 walkout by high
school Chicano students in East Los Angeles to protest academic
prejudice and dire school conditions. [includes rush
transcript].'
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