[Ppnews] Diane Fujino takes on Rosenfeld - defends Richard Aoki

[Political Prisoner News]

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/23/was_bay_area_radical_black_panther

Explosive new allegations have emerged that the man who gave the Black 
Panther Party some of its first firearms and weapons training was an 
undercover FBI informant in California. Richard Aoki, who died in 2009, 
was an early member of the Panthers and the only Asian American to have 
a formal position in the group. The claim that Aoki informed on his 
colleagues is based on statements made by a former bureau agent and an 
FBI report obtained by investigative journalist Seth Rosenfeld, author 
of the new book, "Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals and 
Reagan's Rise to Power." But Aoki's friends and colleagues, as well as 
scholars, have challenged the book's findings. We speak to Rosenfeld, an 
award-winning journalist and author of the article, "Man who armed Black 
Panthers was FBI informant, records show," published by the Center for 
Investigative Reporting; and to Diana Fujino, Aoki's biographer and a 
professor and chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the 
University of California, Santa Barbara. [Transcript to come. Check back 
soon.]

Guests:

*Seth Rosenfeld 
<http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/seth_rosenfeld>*, author of the 
new book "Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals,and Reagan's 
Rise to Power." Rosenfeld was an award-winning a reporter for the San 
Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle for almost 25 years.

*Diane Fujino <http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/diane_fujino>*, 
professor and chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the 
University of California, Santa Barbara. Her most recent book is 
"Samurai Among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a 
Paradoxical Life."


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