{"id":21942,"date":"2011-07-06T09:41:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=21942"},"modified":"2011-07-06T09:41:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:41:28","slug":"fbi-targeting-of-local-activist-carlos-montes-mark-grim-new-era-of-activist-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/07\/06\/fbi-targeting-of-local-activist-carlos-montes-mark-grim-new-era-of-activist-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Targeting of Local Activist Carlos Montes Mark Grim New Era of Activist Repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-070611\/2011_07_06_montes.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-070611\/2011_07_06_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/uploads\/2011\/05\/carlosmontes15aug.jpgmid.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos montes\" \/>Long time Chicano rights and antiwar activist, Carlos Montes, was rudely awakened on the morning of May 17th in his Alhambra home by members of the FBI and the LA Sheriff\u2019s Department. The officers had a search warrant justifying their raid, which turned up a firearm and was used to charge Montes with six felonies. They confiscated computers, cell phones, documents, and photographs, relating to Montes\u2019 long years of activism. Montes himself was arrested but released on bail the next day. In addition to his historic work with the Brown Berets in the 1960s, and his more recent immigrant rights and antiwar activism, Montes was active with the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. The Committee was formed in the wake of FBI raids on the homes of peace activists conducted last year in the Midwestern cities of Chicago and Minneapolis. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Felicia Montes, artist and activist and co-founder of Mujeres de Maiz and member of LA Committee to Sop FBI Repression, Carlos Montes\u2019 daughter. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Montes&#8217; supporters are urging everyone to call Attorney General Eric Holder at 202-353-1555 to urge that all charges against him be dropped. Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopFBI.net\">www.stopFBI.net<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopFBILA.net\">www.stopFBILA.net<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Montes was named in the search warrant for the Midwestern peace activists and we interviewed him on Uprising on September 29, 2010 about it. Listen to that interview here: <a href=\"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=16227\">http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=16227<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carlos Montes&#8217; first court appearance on his own case was on June 16th of this year. He spoke at a press conference outside the court: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PiREUis0OA8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time Chicano rights and antiwar activist, Carlos Montes, was rudely awakened on the morning of May 17th in his Alhambra home by members of the FBI and the LA Sheriff\u2019s Department. The officers had a search warrant justifying their raid, which turned up a firearm and was used to charge Montes with six felonies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}