Critic Reviews for Cointelpro 101. But, as this film so skillfully demonstrates, this all was merely an extension of a continuing state project of enslavement, genocide, theft of land, culture and humanity that pre-dates even the official declaration of U.S. nationhood. The program was unknown to the broader public at the time and the files proved a revelation to the country. It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. The PATRIOT Act and other laws associated with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security have insured this. Parents Guide. There will be no brown shirts but nocturnal visits from Homeland Security.”. Anything outside the parameters set by this force was fair game. "Cointelpro" refers to the official FBI COunter INTELligence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. 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Then, on September 24, 2010 several homes and offices in Minneapolis/St. In other words, the American public had to be eternized by the language government officials and the media employed to demonize Puerto Rican, Chicano-Mexicano, Indigenous, and Black activists and their communities. The FBI compiled 165,000 files against Puerto Rican leaders and organization members. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for the present and future. Cointelpro 101 is a well made and appealing primer on the history of the US police state. We do try are best. But the effort to neutralize Black Americans began the minute Southerner confederate soldiers understood change in the South was on its way, and free-roaming Blacks on the landscape was not the change Southern citizens could live with and thrive. The Chicano/Mexicano struggle for farmer’s and immigration rights did not begin in the 1960s but an extension of the conquest of Mexico by the U.S. government. It turned so-called U.S. citizens in the 20. century into insurgent rebels to be dealt with as any foreign army or movement. By the early 1970s, the FBI targeted American indifference. The Counter Intelligence Program which emerged in the post-WWII era of international struggles for human rights and national liberation simply focused internally to the United States all that had been carried out against populations abroad. msfreeh said on October 9th, 2010 at 9:29am #, to view a partial list of crimes committed by FBI agents over 1500 pages long see And worse still, as Black Panther Party veteran Kathleen Cleaver states unequivocally, unlike the official Counter Intelligence Program of previous decades, today’s version is perfectly legal. The film’s brilliance is not simply its nicely-styled aesthetic elements. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. policies of, for instance, the Patriot Act. The Chicago Police department was organizing the “Red Squad,” and, as police footage reveals, the function of the Red Squad was to watch and ultimately infiltrate suspicious Black, Latino as well as anti-war organizations in order to neutralize leaders. May 1st 2011 Organizers who began their political activity during the time of Cointelpro discuss the effect the program had on them and the organizations and individuals they worked with. Fairly familiar with the story of how this government targeted activists for justice for the purposes of neutralizing social change, I realized after viewing the documentary Cointelpro 101 that the Left rarely has presented the Puerto Rican, the Chicano/Mexicano, Indigenous, and Black as efforts on the part of the government to destabilize and silence people of color. ” described so often in the pages of Black Agenda Report is the result of having first destroyed the rightfully ascending Black leadership class of that time. Leaders were expunged—shot dead—in the streets, in their homes, or in the prisons as the FBI infiltrated these organizations with agent provocateurs and informants. COINTELPRO 101, the latest film release from The Freedom Archives, is nothing like the all-too-common soft, liberal documentary which tells of worse and distant horrors so as to lessen the pain or awareness of those still occurring. COINTELPRO 101 is just that. The “shoot to kill” suspected American “terrorists” did not begin under the Obama administration, but Obama’s selection assured the FBI and other law enforcement agencies that the business of murdering justice and democracy will progress. | The collection of campaigns to neutralize the democratic progress in the U.S., COINTELPRO, is an extension of this nation’s involvement in the practice of genocide, conquest, colonization, and enslavement. There will be no stiff-armed salutes, but recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance. In America, Churchill states, the government waged a counterinsurgent war against activists. Synopsis Short for counterintelligence, Cointelpro involved the use of a multitude of methods up to and including murder in its crusade to neutralize any and all left opposition to the status quo in the United States. COINTELPRO, in full Counterintelligence Program, counterintelligence program conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1956 to 1971 to discredit and neutralize organizations considered subversive to U.S. political stability. Assassination, imprisonment, surveillance and encouraged internal strife were employed to forcibly dissolve these movements. Cointelpro 101 is a riveting recall of history for anyone who wants to be inspired to work toward an end to the U.S. practice of terrorism. Many of the government’s crimes are still unknown. The film inserts stolen pages of history that result in an assumption that Native America went willingly to the reservations and then happily stayed there having never having attempted movements to protect whatever remaining autonomy they might have had. “It doesn’t have to be secret anymore.” As Cointelpro 101 shows, anyone can be charged as a terrorist today if engaged in radical politics. Because the Civil Rights Movement, Cointelpro 101 shows, had the “ability to bring unity and to transform grassroots movements” into national 4campaigns, Black leaders had to be “neutralized.” To understand U.S. history is to recognize that enslavement of Africans and their descendents was but one phase in the relationship between Blacks and the U.S. government.

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