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23 May 2023, 3:09 pm
" "The systemic misuse of this warrantless surveillance tool has made FISA 702 as toxic as COINTELPRO and the FBI abuses of the Hoover years," Laperruque said, while his group's press release noted that the court opinion "confirmed the worst fears of civil rights and civil liberties advocates.Read 30 remaining paragraphs | Comments [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 12:05 pm
The Hoover FBI also created the COINTELPRO program to dismantle “left-wing” organizations and even pressure Martin Luther King, Jr. to kill himself because of sordid “blackmail” evidence the Bureau had compiled against the fame civil rights leader. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 12:38 pm
Edgar Hoover’s unconstitutional “COINTELPRO” surveillance program designed to disgrace, disrupt, arrest, and neutralize Black civil rights activists like Brown. [read post]
30 Jan 2022, 7:01 am
Such thinking is endemic in discourses that suggest anti-Black racism largely ended with the Civil Rights Act or the election of President Obama, or that identify slavery, but not Indigenous genocide or Japanese internment, as a horrid historical episode, or that recognize the racism of FBI COINTELPRO operations during the Cold War but not of contemporary policing. [read post]
10 Aug 2021, 8:00 am
Her focuses include American politics and history, and she is currently writing an honors thesis analyzing the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations and its impact on student activism in the 1960s. [read post]
22 Jun 2021, 6:41 am
The records related to COINTELPRO, the FBI program aimed at surveilling and infiltrating domestic American political organizations. [read post]
24 Feb 2021, 4:55 pm
Even though programs like COINTELPRO are more well-known now, the other side of these kinds of stories are the ways the Black community has fought back through intricate networks and communication aimed at avoiding surveillance. [read post]
10 Jan 2021, 7:28 am
La medida reseña que “la vigilancia electrónica a la que en estos tiempos recurre la Policía de Puerto Rico, evoca las décadas en que a través de la infame práctica conocida como “carpeteo”, el gobierno de Puerto Rico (en colaboración con el gobierno de Estados Unidos a través de estructuras de persecución como COINTELPRO), destinó importantes sumas de dinero público a documentar las actividades… [read post]
26 May 2020, 11:35 am
During a lull one afternoon when I was a high school student selling Black Panther Party newspapers on the streets of downtown Washington, D.C., in 1971, I sat down on the curb and opened the tabloid to the 10-point program, “What We Want; What We Believe. [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 12:03 am
The agency’s infamous COINTELPRO, or counterintelligence program, tracked, spied on and used subterfuge against targets from the Rev. [read post]
25 Apr 2019, 2:14 pm
Just as during the COINTELPRO era, law enforcement and private contractors today use surveillance to intimidate, divide, and “neutralize” domestic social movements. [read post]
21 Mar 2019, 9:45 am
” The FBI’s Counterintelligence Program (“COINTELPRO”) deployed covert activities against Martin Luther King, Jr., the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (previously known as “Malcolm X”), and Ella Baker in the 1950s and 1960s. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 12:30 pm
In an ironic twist, Felt was convicted and then pardoned for ordering illegal “black bag” searches as part of COINTELPRO, a secret FBI program targeting “subversives” that itself only came to light after activists physically stole files from the FBI and sent them to The Washington Post. [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 2:42 pm
Ultimately, the Church Committee’s final report concluded that COINTELPRO was a dangerous program. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 2:30 pm
On March 4, 1968, a COINTELPRO memo described expanded COINTELPRO objectives and for the first time specifically named Dr. [read post]
29 Apr 2018, 7:00 am
Some activists assert that P/CVE is merely a front used by governments to disguise intelligence gathering activities, incorrectly likening P/CVE to the infamous COINTELPRO. [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 3:29 pm
And, at the pinnacle of our dietary suffering, worse even than sprout sandwiches or fruit leather or whole-wheat scones, there was carob, the chocolate substitute that never could.In the nineteen-seventies, carob infiltrated food co-ops and baking books as if it had been sent on a COINTELPRO mission to alienate the left’s next generation.... [read post]
29 Nov 2017, 4:42 pm
Recently, the coalition hosted an event at the headquarters of the Organization for Black Struggle, a force in the community since 1980, that drew connections between the history of COINTELPRO and current experiences with federal and local police surveillance. [read post]
13 Nov 2017, 8:45 am
It lives on in the administration’s assessment of Black protesters as “Black identity extremists” and potential terrorists — a reprise of the FBI’s intrusive COINTELPRO program of decades ago — and in Trump’s denunciations of NFL players protesting racial injustice as un-American and worthy of punishment. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 12:45 pm
In 1956, Hoover approved arguably the FBI’s most infamous and lawless program, known as COINTELPRO. [read post]
