[News] Cointelpro 101 in San Juan, PR Thursday November 15

[Anti-Imperialist News]

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*COINTELPRO Then and Now

Scheduled Time:* Thu, Nov 15 - 6:00pm - 7:45pm 
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*Building/Room:* Puerto Rico Convention Center, 204*
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*Showing of the film COINTELPRO 101, produced by the Freedom Archives & 
Panel Roundtable

*COINTELPRO (for Counter-Intelligence Program) is an acronym that has 
come to represent not only the formal FBI program of the 1950s, 1960s, 
and 1970s, but also the entire repressive apparatus of and collusion 
between government agencies, local, state, and federal, to destroy 
movements for Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous self-determination and 
liberation, and to divide and disrupt progressive movements in general. 
The film combines rare historical footage with interviews of activists 
who were targets of that repression. The panel discussion will urge 
serious integration of this history into critical scholarship and raise 
the possibility of creating a movement to demand accountability and 
restitution, as well as considering the ways that counter-insurgency 
strategies and methods have continued and intensified. The struggle to 
free US Political Prisoners is also central to dismantling the US system 
of mass imprisonment.

Emphasis will be placed on the resistance of the Puerto Rican 
independence movement to US colonialism, appropriate given the location 
of the ASA meeting in San Juan in light of the conference theme of 
“Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future.”

Panelists will include:

— Lucy Rodriguez, who is a lifelong Independentista and a former Puerto 
Rican political prisoner.

— Akinyele Umoja, who is an Associate Professor and Chair of African 
American Studies at Georgia State University and discusses Cointelpro 
and the Black Liberation Movement.

— Claude Marks, is the director of the Freedom Archives, and former 
political prisoner.

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Freedom Archives 522 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 415 
863.9977 www.freedomarchives.org


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