2011: A year of fighting back
1. Resistance to FBI repression
Fight Back!’s most extensive coverage in 2011 was of the ongoing struggle to stop FBI repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists. On Sept. 24, 2010 several activists’ homes were raided by the FBI in Chicago and Minneapolis and 23 activists were called before a grand jury investigating “material support for terrorism” charges. They all refused to testify, and so far nobody has been indicted or jailed. The movement to defend the anti-war and solidarity activists is a high priority for Fight Back!. On May 18, Fight Back! reported on the Unveiling of secret documents the FBI accidentally left behind at one of the activists’ homes they raided last September. The documents gave their operational plans and a series of McCarthyistic questions they planned to ask people about their relationship to Freedom Road Socialist Organization and other groups. A day later, the number of targeted activists grew to 24 and Fight Back! reported on a new raid related to the September 2010 raids, when the FBI and LA Sheriff deputies FBI and Los Angeles County Sheriff raided the home of veteran Chicano activist Carlos Montes. We then reported on the immediate protests by supporters of Carlos Montes denouncing the FBI/Sheriff's raid, and demanding that all charges be dropped.
Fight Back! gave political analysis of the FBI raids, their context, and the struggle ahead as the one year anniversary of the 2010 raids came. First was a statement on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: September 11 ten years later: Pretext for war and repression. Then was a statement calling for people to stand against repression, drop the charges against Carlos Montes and prepare for more challenges ahead. Finally there was a statement from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression, One year since the September 24 FBI raids and Grand Jury subpoenas.
Much more here: http://www.fightbacknews.org/2011/12/30/2011-year-fighting-back-against-oppression-and-repression