Is All Policing Political?
A recurrent theme of the first two episodes was the FBI’s dual roles as a law enforcement and an intelligence agency and what this means for civil liberties. This […]
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Folk Singers & The Bureau (Bonus Episode)
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Feat. Aaron J. Leonard | Still Spying Podcast -
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The Bureaucratic Heart of McCarthyism
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The FBI vs. The Young Lords
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The FBI's Man Inside the Klan
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The War on Black Dissent Part III: The FBI vs. The Movement for Black Lives
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The War on Black Dissent, Part II: COINTELPRO & The Assassination of Fred Hampton
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Feat. Jeffrey Hass | Still Spying Podcast -
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The War on Black Dissent, Part I: Black Lives, Red Scares
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Feat. Prof. Gerald Horne | Still Spying Podcast -
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Is All Policing Political?
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Feat. Alex Vitale | Still Spying Podcast -
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What Powers Does the FBI Have & How Do We Rein Them In
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Feat. Prof. Emily Berman | Still Spying Podcast -
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Legacy of Abuse From The Palmer Raids to Black Identity Extremism
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Feat. Mike German | Still Spying Podcast
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The War on Black Dissent, Part I: Black Lives, Red Scares
Still Spying Podcast
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 liscense to investigate even the most moderate civil rights organizations.
Of course, there were Black radicals and the FBI was viscous in destroying them. Host Chip Gibbons is joined by Gerald Horne, who holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at University of Houston, to explain how in the early Cold War period anti-communism was used to divide the Civil Rights Movement and liquidate its more radical wing. Topics discussed by Horne include Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois, the Civil Rigths Congress and its “We Charge Genocide” petition.
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