COINTELPRO 101 [436001]
Released: 2010-05-07
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Runtime: 56 mins
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Overview: COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. “COINTELPRO” refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. 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.

Cast [25]
Liz Derias
Self / Narrator
Bob Boyle
Self - Attorney
Jose Lopez
Self - Puerto Ri
Lucy Rodriguez
Self - Puerto Ri
Ward Churchill
Self - Native Am
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Self - Native Am
Leonard Peltier
Self - Political
Ricardo Romero
Self - Al Frente
Francísco "Kiko" Martinez
Self - Chicano/M
Priscilla Falcon
Self - Professor
Muhammad Ahmad
Self - Revolutio
J. Edgar Hoover
Self
Malcolm X
Self
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self
Kwame Ture
Self
Akinyele Umoja
Self - Professor
Geronimo Pratt
Self - Black Pan
Laura Whitehorn
Self - Activist
Kathleen Cleaver
Self - Black Pan
M. Wesley Swearingen
Self - Former FB
Fred Hampton
Self
Frank Church
Self
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Self
Mutulu Shakur
Self
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
Self


Hompage: http://www.freedomarchives.org/Cointelpro.html

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