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  • Taking on the Minutemen..(“No Nazis, no Minuteman--we oppose your fascist plan,” )

    05/10/2006 6:12:51 AM PDT · by IrishMike · 38 replies · 1,052+ views
    socialistworker ^ | May 12, 2006 | Andrew Freund
    CHICAGO--More than 150 antiracist activists protested May 4 against the anti-immigrant vigilante group the Minuteman Project, shutting down their meeting. Originally, a member of the Minutemen was invited to debate an activist from the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) at a church in Chicago’s multiracial Logan Square neighborhood. The night before the event, however, the ICIRR backed out after it learned that a neo-Nazi group had put out a call to come support the Minutemen. But that didn’t deter activists. While 60 demonstrated outside with chants like, “No Nazis, no Minuteman--we oppose your fascist plan,” another 90...