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Our Story: Frank Wilkinson, the FBI, and the Origins of Defending Rights & Dissent
Feat. Kit Gage | Still Spying Podcast
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The Bureaucratic Heart of McCarthyism
feat. Ellen Schrecker | Still Spying Podcast
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Spying on Muslim & Arab Americans
Feat. Abdeen Jabara | Still Spying Podcast
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The FBI vs. The Young Lords
Feat. Johanna Fernández | Still Spying Podcast
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The FBI's Man Inside the Klan
Feat. Mary Stanton | Still Spying Podcast
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Exposing FBI Spying Today
Feat. Alice Speri | Still Spying Podcast
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The War on Black Dissent Part III: The FBI vs. The Movement for Black Lives
Feat. Malkia Devich-Cyril | Still Spying Podcast
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The War on Black Dissent, Part II: COINTELPRO & The Assassination of Fred Hampton
Feat. Jeffrey Hass | Still Spying Podcast
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The War on Black Dissent, Part I: Black Lives, Red Scares
Feat. Prof. Gerald Horne | Still Spying Podcast
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Is All Policing Political?
Feat. Alex Vitale | Still Spying Podcast
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What Powers Does the FBI Have & How Do We Rein Them In
Feat. Prof. Emily Berman | Still Spying Podcast
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Legacy of Abuse From The Palmer Raids to Black Identity Extremism
Feat. Mike German | Still Spying Podcast
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 out of a job and Chavez Ravine became Dodgers Stadium […]
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 historian Ellen Schrecker to discuss what McCarthyism was, how the […]
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 criminal wronging, it’s clear that for the FBI race, religion, […]
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 Rican independence they were part of a much older lineage […]
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 attitude towards those fighting nonviolently for racial justice compare to […]
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 and whistleblowers to journalists reporting on FBI surveillance. She also […]
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 the present. In response to police violence and white supremacy, […]
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 of the FBI’s War on Black Dissent, host Chip Gibbons […]
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 of communist beliefs, and thus took its anti-communist mission as […]
