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"Making Contact" is produced by International Media Project, an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1994, committed to investigative journalism, in-depth critical analysis, the promotion of civic participation and the dissemination of educational material. Its core focus is National Radio Project, the team that creates Making Contact.
As the Movement for Black Lives has grown, so has government surveillance of Black Lives Matter organizers. Journalists have reported on Homeland Security tracking protesters at rallies and regional fusion centers that monitor their social media activity. Now, Color of Change and the Center for Constitutional Rights are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI release documentation of surveillance targeting the Movement for Black Lives.
This week, we broadcast Part 2 of COINTELPRO 101, a documentary film that looks at COINTELPRO, the secret FBI project that infiltrated and disrupted domestic organizations thought to be subversive. The program targeted many African American, Native American, and other movements for self-determination by people of color in the U.S. Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI conducted more than 2,000 COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) operations.
Special thanks to The Freedom Archives, the organization that produced this film.
Featuring:
Muhammad Ahmad/Max Stanford, Revolutionary Action Movement founder and national field chairman; Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University African-American Studies Professor; Geronimo Pratt, Black Panther Party member and former political prisoner; Stokely Charmichael/Kwame Ture, former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chairman; Bob Doyle, attorney; Laura Whitehorn, Activist and former political prisoner; Kathleen Cleaver, Black Panther Party member and attorney; Wesley Swearingen, former FBI special agent; Ward Churchill, Native American activist and author; Joan Bird, Black Panther Party; Jeanne Hamilton, Juror in Geronimo Pratt’s case; Senator Frank Church; Jose Lopez, Puerto Rican Cultural Center Executive Director; Ricardo Romero, Al Frente de Lucha co-founder; Priscilla Falcon, University of Northern Colorado Professor of Hispanic Studies; Francisco Martinez, Chicano/Mejicano activist and attorney.
Credits:
Guest Production Team: Freedom Archives; Andres Alegria, Prentis Hemphill, Anita Johnson and Claude Marks
Producer/Host: Andrew Stelzer
Producer: Kyung Jin Lee, Esther Manilla
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Associate Director: Khanh Pham
Production Intern: Lisa Bartfai
Web Intern: Irene Florez
Community Engagement and Volunteer Coordinator: Karl Jagbandhansingh
Organizational Volunteers: Judy Huang, Dan Turner, Alfonso Hooker, Alton Byrd, Alex Collins, Judy Huang, Catherine Lee and Dashal Moore.
