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![Francisco 'Kiko' Martinez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage](images/thumbnails//8544.jpg)
Call Number: C 10 128Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
In 1973, Chicano activist and lawyer Francisco "Kiko" Martinez was indicted in Colorado on trumped-up bombing charges and suspended from the bar. He was forced to leave the United States for fear of assassination by police directed to shoot him "on sight." When Martinez was eventually brought to trial in the 1980s, many of the charges against him were dropped for insufficient evidence and local juries acquitted him of others. One case ended in a mistrial when it was found that the judge had met secretly with prosecutors, police, and government witnesses to plan perjured testimony, and had conspired with the FBI to conceal video cameras in the courtroom.
Kiko is a lifelong activist and dedicated human rights attorney.
![Ricardo Romero COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage](images/thumbnails//8549.jpg)
Call Number: C 10 133Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Ricardo Romero is a Chicano activist for immigrants rights who, in 1981, refused to testify before a Grand Jury, along with other activists, to provide information on the activities of political activist organizations. He is a lifelong activist for Chican@-Mexican@ liberation.
![Cointelpro's Attacks Against The Chicano Movement](images/thumbnails//30465.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Xican@
COINTELPRO may not be a well-understood acronym but its meaning and continuing impact are absolutely central to understanding the government’s wars and repression against progressive movements. COINTELPRO represents the state’s strategy to prevent movements and communities from overturning white supremacy and creating racial justice. COINTELPRO is both a formal program of the FBI and a term frequently used to describe a conspiracy among government agencies—local, state, and federal—to destroy movements for self-determination and liberation for Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous struggles, as well as mount an institutionalized attack against allies of these movements and other progressive organizations.
![The leadership of women in La Raza Unida](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Collection: Xican@
Evelina Alarcon speaks about how women have been taking more substantial leadership roles to combat sexism while simultaneously making La Raza Unida stronger. Taken from CD 826.
![Ramsey Muniz on Democratic and Republican Parties](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Collection: Xican@
Ramsey Muniz, the first Chicano Candidate for governor in the state of Texas, gives his insight as to how he views both the Democratic and Republican parties as one animal with two heads. He also gives examples of how previous Mexican American Democratic leaders controlled Latino supporters. Clip is in Spanish. Taken from CD 827.
![Ramsey Muniz on Mexican American Political Leaders](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Collection: Xican@
Ramsey Muniz, the first Chicano Candidate for governor in the state of Texas, speaks out on the intentions of Mexican American political leaders in Texas. Muniz is asked about his relationship to Hector Garcia, and states that he is tired of fighting other Mexican Americans and makes it clear that his aim is to fight the Democratic and Republican parties. Taken from CD 827.