COINTELPRO 101
(2010)

Released: 2010-05-07

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COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. “COINTELPRO” refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for the present and future.

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Liz Derias

as Self / Narrator (voice)

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Bob Boyle

as Self - Attorney

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Jose Lopez

as Self - Puerto Rican Cultural Center

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Lucy Rodriguez

as Self - Puerto Rican Independentista / Former Political Prisoner

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Ward Churchill

as Self - Native American Activist/Author

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

as Self - Native American Activist/Author

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Leonard Peltier

as Self - Political Prisoner

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Ricardo Romero

as Self - Al Frente de Lucha; Greeley, CO

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Francísco "Kiko" Martinez

as Self - Chicano/Mexicano Activist & Attorney

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Priscilla Falcon

as Self - Professor, Hispanic Studies, U. of Northern Colorado

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Muhammad Ahmad

as Self - Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM)

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J. Edgar Hoover

as Self (archive footage)

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Malcolm X

as Self (archive footage)

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Martin Luther King Jr.

as Self (archive footage)

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Kwame Ture

as Self (archive footage)

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Akinyele Umoja

as Self - Professor, African American Studies, Georgia State U.

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Geronimo Pratt

as Self - Black Panther Party / Former Political Prisoner

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Laura Whitehorn

as Self - Activist / Former Political Prisoner

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Kathleen Cleaver

as Self - Black Panther Party/Attorney

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M. Wesley Swearingen

as Self - Former FBI Special Agent

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