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![Jose Lopez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage](images/thumbnails//8545.jpg)
Call Number: C 10 129Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
José López is the executive director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Under his leadership, the PRCC has developed a number of initiatives in the Humboldt Park community, including an alternative high school, a parent child learning center and day care, a museum and cultural institution, a youth drop-in center and an HIV education and advocacy organization. He has also directed efforts in urban agriculture, promoting a community health curriculum among high school students and business endeavors among the Paseo Boricua district. He is a lifelong advocate for Puerto Rican Independence from the US and his brother, Oscar López Rivera, is a Puerto Rican Independentista and US political prisoner.
![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.
![Laura Whitehorn COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage](images/thumbnails//8543.jpg)
Call Number: C 10 127Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Radical activist and former political prisoner/WUO member who was targeted by the federal government.