Judas works for COINTELPRO: How the FBI infiltrated the Black Panthers
Surveillance and the City
English - February 25, 2021 21:59 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBTechnology Government spying policing big brother robots surveillance killer robots nypd new york city futurism Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week on Surveillance And The City, we discuss the history of FBI surveillance under COINTELPRO (the Counterintelligence Program) and its legacies in "counterterrorism" and the surveillance of anti-racist movements today. How did anticommunist hysteria during the 1950s expand to include the surveillance and incarceration of Civil Rights leaders during the 1960s and 1970s, namely those part of the Black Panther Party (BPP)? What connections can we draw between COINTELPRO and the contemporary surveillance of Muslim Americans after 9/11 and so-called "Black identity extremists" throughout the Black Lives Matter movement? We then share our thoughts on Shaka King's stunning new film, Judas and the Black Messiah, which invites exploration of these themes in depicting the life of BPP Illinois chapter chairman, Fred Hampton.
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