Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more radical expatriates there is little sense that exile from the U.S. is final, even less that they are separated from significant events there. The violent opposition to the war that has caused many of them to seek refuge in Canada has united them here. Much of the Montreal anti-war movement is American-inspired and American...
More surprising, activities are not confined to Canada. More than twenty exiles living in Montreal risked the threat of arrest in the States to march in October's Moblization Against the War in Washington. "Americans in Exile," a self-styled "cadre patterned on the model afforded by Che Guevara," is presently organizing units to foray into the States to encourage others to follow the route that they have taken...
Among the far-left radicals who comprise at least half of the American contigent here, Montreal isn't a new home but a new place where organization against the war can safely be continued. They look back across the border more than forward to what kind of life they can make here...
...another large segment of exiles, the rationale is less articulate and perhaps myopic. Most of the radical Americans in Montreal are either college dropouts or recent graduates. But the publicity that has attended their exodus has filtered down to a younger and more naive group. More and more high-school dropouts, teeny-boppers, and hippies are arriving in Montreal armed with little money and less ability to rationalize what they are doing here...
Many aren't even opposed to the war. Service was a hurdle that Montreal got them around. "What the hell," said one nineteen-year-old from the Bronx, "I got my notice one day in the mail and went to a bar to have a drink before I went. There was a guy there just back from Vietnam: two wooden arms, two wooden legs, and no disability payments. 'What's in it for me?' I said to myself and caught the next bus for here. I would have gone except Canada's where it's at and the Army wasn...