COINTELPRO 101
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- Running Time
- 56
- Original Title
- COINTELPRO 101
- Release Date
- 2010-05-07 00:00:00
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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.
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Self / Narrator (voice)
Liz Derias
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Self - Attorney
Bob Boyle
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Self - Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Jose Lopez
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Self - Puerto Rican Independentista / Former Political Prisoner
Lucy Rodriguez
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Self - Native American Activist/Author
Ward Churchill
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Self - Political Prisoner
Leonard Peltier
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Self - Al Frente de Lucha; Greeley, CO
Ricardo Romero
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Self - Professor, Hispanic Studies, U. of Northern Colorado
Priscilla Falcon
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Self - Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM)
Muhammad Ahmad
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Self (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover
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Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
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Kwame Ture
