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Chanti Ollin is a six-year-old community center in Mexico City. One of its core founders and organizers, Hard Coreen, was wrongfully arrested by the police at the end of April.

Hard Coreen is a longtime activist. He has done a variety of work from helping at the Biblioteca Social Reconstruir, to organizing radical art shows and diy punk shows, to making art in a political silkscreen collective. He has also been a wonderful host to the myriad of travelers and foreigners coming to mexico city, and a great introducer to the city’s diy political scene.

Around the beginning of May, Chanti Ollin hosted a punk show which many people attended. At one point in the evening, Hard Coreen and some friends left to buy things at the corner store which is when the police first started their intimidation, not an unusual occurrence in Mexico City, especially for those involved in political activities. The police searched everyone and, upon finding nothing, let them go.

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