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Carlos Montes

Carlos Montes is a veteran Chicano activist known for his leadership of the 1968 East Los Angeles education reform movement (see film Walkout), the historic Chicano Moratorium against the U.S. war in

FBI Raids Erode First Amendment

Statement from Friends for a Non-Violent World The FBI raids of anti-war activists in September, 2010, are symptomatic of a trend:  the erosion of our fundamental democratic rights in the name of national

Anh Pham

Anh Pham immigrated to the U.S. from Viet Nam with her family in 1975 after the end of the war. Her family raised her with a strong sense of community service and

Maureen Murphy

Maureen Murphy is a journalist and Palestine solidarity activist from Chicago. She spent a few years living and traveling throughout the Middle East, interning for the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq in the