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Protest 1969-1981

Protest 1969-1981. COINTELPRO. Members of the Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army, and other radical protest groups became the focus of intense FBI scrutiny. Goal Discredit, disrupt, and destroy radical groups. Groups targeted. Civil Rights groups Anti-war protestors

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Protest 1969-1981

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  1. Protest 1969-1981

  2. COINTELPRO • Members of the Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army, and other radical protest groups became the focus of intense FBI scrutiny. • Goal • Discredit, disrupt, and destroy radical groups

  3. Groups targeted • Civil Rights groups • Anti-war protestors • Labor movements • Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

  4. March8, 1971 • “Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI” • Many claimed that the FBI had gone father than just mere investigation during COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). • The commission sent copies of documents to major newspapers, members of Congress, and the leadership of targeted groups. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbMsOGWN_ts&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

  5. What did the FBI do? • Tapped phones • Leaked false information • Infiltrated meetings • Sent anonymous letters to members’ relatives and friends • Conducted clandestine searches of homes

  6. Response • Hoover • He cancelled the program because of the intense media pressure. • It lasted a decade. • Congress • Launched inquiries “to ensure that the pattern of abuse of domestic intelligence activity does not recur.”

  7. The Black Liberation Army Like many other racial groups of the time period, the BLA financed its activities through a series of armed bank robberies. The BLA used violence to demand an end to racism, police harassment, and the economic exploitation of blacks in America.

  8. The Black Panther Party was founded to form self-defense. This was a party whose agenda was the revolutionary establishment of real economic, social, and political equality across gender and color lines. Original six Black Panthers.

  9. Black Child's Pledge I pledge allegiance to my Black People.I pledge to develop my mind and body to the greatest extent possible.I will learn all that I can in order to give my best to my People in their struggle for liberation.I will keep myself physically fit, building a strong body free from drugs and other substances which weaken me and make me less capable of protecting myself, my family and my Black brothers and sisters.I will unselfishly share my knowledge and understanding with them in order to bring about change more quickly.I will discipline myself to direct my energies thoughtfully and constructively rather than wasting them in idle hatred.I will train myself never to hurt or allow others to harm my Black brothers and sisters for I recognize that we need every Black Man, Woman, and Child to be physically, mentally and psychologically strong.These principles I pledge to practice daily and to teach them to others in order to unite my People. The Black Panther, October 26, 1968

  10. Joanne Chesimard was the spiritual leader of the Black Liberation Army. Chesimard was convicted of the 1973 murder of a New Jersey police officer. She later escaped from prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba. Joanne was at the top of the FBI’s most wanted list.

  11. "Hello, I'm going to read a declaration of a state of war...within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice." ~ Bernardine Dohrn Weather Underground Organization was an American radical left group.Their intentions were to overthrow the U.S government. The Weather Underground members: Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and Brian Flanagan, speak publicly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's most wanted list.

  12. Fueled by outrage over racism and the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s--bombing targets across the country that they considered emblematic of the real violence that the U.S. was wreaking throughout the world.

  13. Days of Rage October 8-11, 1969  • The name was selected from verses from a Bob Dylan song.  Advertised as the groups disdain for American involvement in the Vietnam War in the title "Bring the War Home" slogan.  The group of a few hundred blew up a statue in Chicago built to commemorate fallen policemen.  The statue was rebuilt and blew up again by the Weathermen in October of 1970.  The event was marked with violence between the Weathermen and police resulting in 6 members being shot and 68 arrested.

  14. The Weather Underground Video http://youtu.be/jbQCpUhONtk Weather Underground Bombs the Capitol, Pentagon, and State Department

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