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<font class="fieldtext"><b><font class="headingtext"><big><big>COINTELPRO

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and Now</big></big><br>

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Puerto Rico Convention Center, 204</font><font class="fieldtext"><b><br>

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<font class="fieldtext"><big><b>Showing of the film COINTELPRO 101,

produced by the Freedom Archives & Panel Roundtable<br>

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</b></big>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.<br>

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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

УDimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future.Ф <br>

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Panelists will include:<br>

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Ч Lucy Rodriguez, who is a lifelong Independentista and a former Puerto

Rican political prisoner.<br>

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Ч 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.<br>

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Ч Claude Marks, is the director of the Freedom Archives, and former

political prisoner.</font><br>

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