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1/5/2012 |
Occupy Wall Street Condemns the NDAA |
Occupy Wall Street held a press conference on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) signed into law by President Barack Obama on New Year’s Eve. The press conference was organized to condemn the bill, which grants the military extraordinary powers to detain US citizens indefinitely without trial. |
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5/8/2011 |
U.S. Attorney escalates attacks on civil liberties of anti-war, Palestinian human rights activists |
On Friday, May 6, the U.S. government froze the bank accounts of Hatem Abudayyeh and his wife, Naima. |
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5/19/2011 |
FBI and LA County Sheriff raid veteran Chicano activist Carlos Montes |
On May 17, 2011 at 5:00 AM the SWAT Team of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and members of the FBI raided the home of Carlos Montes, a long time Chicano activist and active member of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. |
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6/16/2011 |
FBI Repression of Activists Continues: Carlos Montes Demands Charges Be Dropped, DA Refuses |
Over 100 protesters rallied this morning outside the Alhambra City Courthouse in Los Angeles County in solidarity with Carlos Montes, a well known Chicano community organizer and immigrants rights activist. Montes’ home was raided in a pre-dawn raid by the LA SWAT team and the FBI on May 17th, in which agents took political documents, papers, computers and cell phones, and was ordered to appear in court today regarding several firearms related charges. |
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11/11/2011 |
Committee to Stop FBI Repression Conference – Successful and Inspiring! |
Over 150 people gathered in Chicago on Nov. 5 for the first national conference of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. |
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4/26/2012 |
Judge orders May 15 trial for Carlos Montes |
Superior Court Judge George G. Lomeli ordered a trial to begin on May 15 for Carlos Montes, a longtime Los Angeles Chicano activist in the anti-war, immigrant rights, public education and Chicano liberation movements. The trial will start at 8:00 a.m. at the Criminal Courts Building, 13th floor, Department 100, at 210 West Temple Avenue in Los Angeles. |
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8/9/2011 |
Support Carlos Montes as he goes to court Friday, August 12 |
Support Carlos Montes as he goes to court Friday, August 12
Call:
President Barak Obama at 202-456-1111
Attorney General Eric Holder at 202-514-2001 |
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1/27/2011 |
Statement on the Grand Jury |
The 9 activists subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury in Chicago on January 25 explain their reasons for refusing to testify. |
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1/12/2011 |
Anti-War and International Solidarity Activists Denounce FBI Infiltration |
The anti-war and international solidarity activists who are being called before a grand jury in Chicago have learned that beginning a few months before the protests against the Republican National Convention in the 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota, a law enforcement officer infiltrated the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee (AWC). The infiltrator went by the name Karen Sullivan, joined the AWC in April 2008, and about a year later she joined the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. |
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3/15/2011 |
Join the Committee to Stop FBI Repression at Anti-War Protests on March 19, April 9 and April 10 |
The Committee to Stop FBI Repression (CSFR) is asking you to join us in supporting anti-war protests. On March 19 there are local rallies, many with International ANSWER Coalition. Then we go all out for New York City on April 9th and San Francisco on April 10th, with the United National Antiwar Committee.
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