gangstalking | December 2, 2009
What the FBI’s Murder of a Black Panther Can Teach Us 40 Years Later
By Jeffrey Haas, The Nation
Posted on December 2, 2009,
December 4 marks the fortieth anniversary of the raid on a Black Panther apartment in which Chicago police shot and killed Fred Hampton in his bed. Hampton was the charismatic young chairman of the Chicago Black Panther Party, and under his leadership the party’s membership and influence had increased dramatically. The party had instituted a popular and expanding Breakfast for Children Program and a police accountability project. At the age of 21, Hampton was able to reach and influence gang members and welfare mothers as well as college and law students. Under his tutelage, the Panthers formed a coalition with Puerto Rican and white activists.
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gangstalking | August 9, 2006
Spies, lies, and war
by Sherry Wolf
International Socialist Review, September/October 2006
Surveillance and infiltration are weapons in the arsenal of the state machinery-from dictatorships like Egypt to Western democracies like the United States. How else could minority elites hope to monitor and stifle dissent among their exploited and oppressed majorities? Especially in times of war, when the nothingçade of diplomacy is lifted and the true brutality of states is unleashed, a premium is placed on silencing or crushing any domestic discord that threatens national unity. War abroad, to put it bluntly, is always accompanied by intensified repression at home.
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gangstalking | June 16, 2006
Missing History in Action
The media coverage of the case seems to be factually correct. The claims that were reported were in fact made. However, the coverage also omits massive amounts of relevant contextual information-information which undermines the claims which were reported.
In 1969, the year that the shooting in question took place, eleven black youths from Chicago’s south side were killed by police. A dozen members of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and slightly fewer members of the Chicago police force, were wounded or killed in shootouts. 100 Panther members were arrested, and the Panther headquarters were raided four separate times by FBI and police forces. At the same time, the FBI’s CounterIntelligence Program (COINTELPRO) was planting agents within the Black Panther Party (and other political groups) with the aim of disabling or destroying the organization’s political effectiveness.
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