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A Democratic member of the United States Congress thinks it’s time for the world to know the full extent of the FBI’s infamous COINTELPRO operation and has introduced a piece of legislation that would make it so. Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois, who has served as the U.S. Representative for Illinois’ 1st District since 1992, introduced the bill, which would “require government agencies including the FBI and the DOJ to release records related to COINTELPRO so that the public can determin...

Fred Hampton: House Democrat introduces bill to release COINTELPRO files on surveillance of Black Panthers CNN 3 hrs ago By Caroline Kelly, CNN © AP In this October 29, 1969, file photo, Dr. Benjamin Spock (background) listens to Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, at a rally outside a US courthouse. A Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require the government to release its decades-old records from an FBI-run covert surveilla...

House Democrat introduces bill to release COINTELPRO files on surveillance of Black Panthers and Fred Hampton A Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require the government to release its decades-old records from an FBI-run covert surveillance program that monitored the Black Panthers, as well as civil rights and anti-war activists, among others. In addition to requiring the release of files from COINTELPRO, or the Counter-Intelligence Program, within six months of enactme...

Fifty Years Ago, Activists Burgled the FBI and Exposed Its Undemocratic Abuses On March 8, 1971, a group of New Left activists executed a daring burglary of an FBI field office in Pennsylvania, exposing the bureau’s COINTELPRO operations against the civil rights movement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation. Photo: iPhoneDigital, CC BY 2.0/Flickr History13/Mar/2021 On March 8, 1971, much of the nation was transfixed by the “Fight of Century” between Joe Fraiser and Muhammed Ali, ...

Rep. Steve Cohen has reintroduced a bill that calls for J. Edgar Hoover’s name to be removed from the FBI building after seeing ‘Judas and the Black Messiah.’

Fifty-six years after the assasination of Malcolm X, new details from a former New York Police Department officer’s deathbed confession has further im

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Against the Global Police State The Global Police State (Pluto Press, 2020) The storming of the United States Capitol on January 6 at the behest of then-President Trump, and with the tacit and active support of certain sectors of the state apparatus, has understandably reignited fears over the growth of a neo-fascist movement. And yet, the shambolic nature of the invasion, which saw adherents of the conspiratorial Q’Anon cult largely outnumber the organized far-right militias with combat trai...

SNCC); and the Congress for Racial Equality ( CORE). While these associations generally pursued their goals through civil disobedience and the courts, it was the Black Panther Party that eschewed the establishment in favor of leftist community organizing, a focus on Black power, and military tactics. New film Judas and the Black Messiah, in theaters and on HBO Max Feb 12, follows the rise of Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), the head of the Illinois chapter of the party. F...

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows, from left, Daniel Kaluuya, Dominique Thorne and Lakeith Stanfield in a scene from “Judas and the Black Messiah.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Daniel Kaluuya in a scene from "Judas and the Black Messiah." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Daniel Kaluuya, left, and Lakeith Stanfield, right...