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Still Spying Podcast By Still Spying Podcast On May 7, 2021

Folk Singers & The Bureau

The FBI has long devoted its resources to stamping out dissent. As part of its ruthless war on the Communist Party, the Bureau set its sites on America’s folk singers. In his new book The Folk Singers and the Bureau: [...]

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Still Spying Podcast By Still Spying Podcast On February 12, 2021

Our Story: Frank Wilkinson, the FBI, and the Origins of Defending Rights & Dissent

In our final episode, we explore the Defending Rights & Dissent’s own origins. Frank Wilkinson was a public housing advocate who was working on an integrated public housing project in Chavez Ravine, The FBI and HUAC working together, hounded him [...]

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Still Spying Podcast By Still Spying Podcast On January 21, 2021

The Bureaucratic Heart of McCarthyism

The Second Red Scare may have been named after the demagogic Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, but no one was more central to it than J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Host Chip Gibbons is joined by renowned [...]

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Still Spying Podcast By Still Spying Podcast On December 23, 2020

Spying on Muslim & Arab Americans

play_arrow Spying on Muslim & Arab Americans Still Spying Podcast Since 9/11, the FBI has subjected the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities to surveillance. Sending infiltrators and confidential informants into mosques and other community spaces absent any evidence of [...]

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Still Spying Podcast By Still Spying Podcast On December 4, 2020

The FBI v. The Young Lords

play_arrow The FBI v. The Young Lords Still Spying Podcast The Young Lords were a political organization led predominantly by poor and working-class Puerto Rican youth. They emerged as part of the larger New Left, but as advocates of Puerto [...]

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Still Spying Podcast By Still Spying Podcast On October 20, 2020

The FBI’s Man Inside the Klan

play_arrow The FBI’s Man Inside the Klan Still Spying Podcast The FBI was ruthless in its pursuit of civil rights activists. At the same time, the Ku Klux Klan was engaged in a reign of terror. How did the FBI’s [...]

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Still Spying Podcast By Still Spying Podcast On September 16, 2020

Exposing FBI Spying Today

play_arrow Exposing FBI Spying Today Still Spying Podcast The FBI is still spying on dissent. But how do we know what they’re up to? On this episode, Alice Speri of The Intercept talks about the importance of the Freedom of Information Act [...]

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Still Spying Podcast By Still Spying Podcast On August 27, 2020

The War on Black Dissent, Part III: The FBI vs. The Movement for Black Lives

play_arrow The War on Black Dissent, Part III: The FBI vs. The Movement for Black Lives Still Spying Podcast In our conclusion of Still Spying’s three-part exploration of the FBI’s war on Black dissent we bring the story up to [...]

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Still Spying Podcast By Still Spying Podcast On August 10, 2020

The War on Black Dissent, Part II: COINTELPRO & The Assassination of Fred Hampton

In what Noam Chomksy called the “gravest domestic crime of the Nixon Administration,” the FBI orchestrated a Chicago police raid that killed Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. In part two of a three part exploration [...]

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Still Spying Podcast By Still Spying Podcast On July 28, 2020

The War on Black Dissent, Part I: Black Lives, Red Scares

Still Spying begins a three part exploration of the FBI’s long War on Black Dissent. In this first part, the role of anti-communism in attacking Civil Rights Movements is discussed. The FBI viewed support for civil rights as evidence [...]

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THE FBI IS STILL SPYING ON DISSENT

Join host Chip Gibbons as he hosts our new Still Spying Podcast, which explores the FBI’s continuing 1st Amendment abuse. Chip is a noted FBI expert, journalist, and commentator. His writings on the FBI have appeared in The Intercept, Washington Post, and The Nation.

This podcast builds on Defending Rights & Dissent’s groundbreaking report titled Still Spying on Dissent: The Enduring Problem of FBI First Amendment Abuse, which documented a century of FBI spying and contextualized it in the larger history of the Bureau.

In this limited series podcast, Chip is joined in conversation by experts and activists and will explore everything from the failure to reform the FBI, the FBI’s own war on Black dissent, the FBI’s dual role as both law enforcement and intelligence, and how the issue of political surveillance fits into larger discussions about policing.