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Anti-Black Surveillance Did Not End With COINTELPRO

November 3, 2016 Stephanie Llanes, www.truth-out.org , ,
By Stephanie Llanes for Truthout - Fifty years from now, what will the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture's exhibit on the Movement for Black Lives look like? Will the exhibit feature videos from the hundreds of protests that erupted around the United States and the world, alongside pictures of children with signs that say "I Can't Breathe," and "Say Her Name?" Will there be displays of the canisters of tear gas thrown by police at protestors, and a copy of the Vision for Black Lives policy plan for visitors to read?

Silicon Valley And Police Create COINTELPRO For Tech Age

October 15, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - The most widely-used social media platforms have collaborated with law enforcement to track Black Lives Matter activists, providing police agencies with data that is unavailable to the broader public, the American Civil Liberties Union revealed Tuesday. Indeed, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram all gave “special access” to Geofeedia, a Chicago-based social media monitoring company whose marketing materials have referred to labor unions and activists as “overt threats.”

History Of State Repression Against Social Movements

February 16, 2016 Jared Ball, www.therealnews.com , ,
By Jared Ball for The Real News - Welcome, everyone, back to the Real News Network. I'm Jared Ball here in Baltimore. As we move into Black History Month, we wanted to sit down with our resident political prisoner and Black Panther Party producer and host here at the Real News, Marshall Eddie Conway, to talk a little bit about his life and work, and particularly about his book The Greatest Threat: The Black Panther Party and the Counterintelligence Program.

The Worst Snowden Revelation of Them All: Digital Cointelpro

March 4, 2014 Justin Raimondo, antiwar.com , , ,
Speaking of the media, this whole covert action program assumes easy access on the part of government agents to sympathetic contacts in the "mainstream" news and opinion outlets: it posits a ready consumer base of "journalists" hungry for a constant diet of smears, "false flags," and compromising material. And we can all guess as to who some of them might be…. Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s close advisor and head of a commission to "reform" the NSA, has long advocated infiltrating online communities devoted to supposedly dangerous "conspiracy theories," and otherwise steering online discourse in a more pro-government direction – and it looks like his ideas are being put into practice. The new documents promise a "full rollout complete by early 2013," with "500+ GCHQ analysts" on the job – and how many from the NSA and US law enforcement agencies?

FBI Burglars Praise Edward Snowden – And His Decision To Flee

January 8, 2014 Matt Sledge, www.huffingtonpost.org ,
The activists who stole FBI documents exposing widespread, illegal domestic surveillance in 1971 say Edward Snowden did the right thing in fleeing the country instead of awaiting punishment for leaking sensitive NSA files. "How would that have helped in the purpose for which Edward Snowden acted?" asked John Raines, who revealed his role in the burglary for the first time on Tuesday. "How would that have helped if we had stood around?" The actions of Raines, an 80-year-old retired Temple University professor, and seven other anti-war activists revealed a vast effort under FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to surveil and intimidate law-abiding dissidents during the Vietnam era. The files they pilfered from a field office in Media, Pa., and then sent to journalists helped spur sweeping intelligence reforms under the 1970s-era Church Committee.

Activists Who Broke into FBI Office, Stole COINTELPRO Papers, Reveal Their Identities

January 6, 2014 Michael Isikoff, www.nbcnews.com
Forty-three years after the mysterious theft of up to 1,000 documents from an FBI office outside Philadelphia, three former political activists are publicly confessing to the brazen burglary, calling it an act of “resistance” that exposed “massive illegal surveillance and intimidation.” “We did it … because somebody had to do it,” John Raines, 80, a retired professor of religion at Temple University, said in an interview with NBC News. “In this case, by breaking a law -- entering, removing files -- we exposed a crime that was going on. … When we are denied the information we need to have to act as citizens, then we have a right to do what we did.”
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