Exposing COINTELPRO FBI spying ("1971")

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; ACLU of Southern California (aclusocal.org)

Stand for Justice: American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (aclusocal.org)

ON MARCH 8, 1971 -- 14 years before Edward Snowden was born -- illegal government surveillance was exposed when eight seemingly ordinary Americans broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole more than 1,000 documents.

 

HEAR FROM THE KEY PLAYERS who exposed COINTELPRO, the FBI’s vast domestic spying operation designed to induce paranoia among Americans, particularly civil rights activists.

• Bonnie Raines, educator and member of the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI
• John C. Raines, professor and member of the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI
• Betty Medsger, author of The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI 

Protest: America tortures in Guantanamo prison and elsewhere (aclu.org).

 

Saturday, 1/24 5:00-7:00 pm

All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Pasadena
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Sunday, 1/25 1:00-2:00 pm

Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim

Monday, 1/26 6:00-8:00 pm

Loyola Marymount University
University Hall 1000, Ahmanson Auditorium

Tuesday, 1/27 6:00-9:00 pm

Caltech: California Institute of Technology
Beckman Institute Auditorium
(Includes 6:00 pm screening of the documentary 1971)

1971 documentary unmasks the activists who broke into the FBI and exposed its spying.

Wednesday, 1/28 11:00 am-3:00 pm

Glendale Community College
Auditorium
(Includes 11:00 am screening of documentary 1971)

7:00 pm (SCREENING OF DOCUMENTARY 1971 ONLY)

Glendale Community College
Kreider Hall

Thursday, 1/29 7:30-9:30 pm

Occidental College
Choi Auditorium, McKinnon Center for Global Affairs
(Includes Hank Jones and Harold Taylor, members of the Black Panther Party who were targeted and tortured by the FBI under COINTELPRO)
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Aidan Lukomnik

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SPONSORS: ACLU of Southern California California, L.A. Progressive, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim, California Institute of Technology, Occidental College, Glendale Community College, Loyola Marymount University.