Great detail and research included with photos, interviews, and news stories.Ward Churchill got the shaft at the University of Colorado. See what happened the first time America had a Patriot Act!
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement is a book by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, first published in 1988.
Best professor I had, with the exception of James Kimble in the philosophy department.
I hope to come bath to Churchill's analysis of the FBI's repression of Native American resistance.
Churchill weaves a pretty convincing narrative of government crookedness, and he doesn't disguise his biases.
Even I was shocked by the FBI's literal war against a self-defense movement which engaged in completely legal--yes, completely legal--activity.
He definitely doesn't rule out the possibility of taking up arms against the government, and he doesn't mince words. Most of Agents of Repression focuses on what was done in their campaign against the American Indian Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Bestemming kiezen Published Be the first to ask a question about Agents of Repression This book is key to understanding the full story of the Black Panther Party, and to just understanding the role of the police state in crushing activist movements.
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A little biased but a good read about an interesting period in American history.All in all an excellent book, but it makes some very dubious assertions related to Italian anarchists and the Palmer raids near the beginning.An amazing premier on the FBI/CIA Cointelpro tactics.American Indian writer, political activist and former professor of ethnic studies in Colorado at Boulder from 1990 till 2007.American Indian writer, political activist and former professor of ethnic studies in Colorado at Boulder from 1990 till 2007. There is also q If you wanted to make a case that the FBI are often worse criminals than the actual criminals and serve more as a thuggish Orwellian political police than look no further than this book. The Great Migration was the movement of six million African Americans out of the South to urban areas in the Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1...For those wondering how Bill Clinton could pardon white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). Je onlangs bekeken items en aanbevelingen
The thing is, the book is so thoroughly annotated that any argument you pick with Mr. Churchill, you also have to pick with his sources, which are numerous and sometimes arcane. The best book on the US government repression of the American Indian Movement in the 70s (also has excellent treatment of the crushing of the Black Panthers) that I am aware of.2018 Reading Challenge - A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get toI always knew the FBI was a fucked up inherently evil organization.
Some of it is hard to believe, you don't want to believe it, but it's real.
The one negative thing I found was Churchill's prose, which was often less than lucid. This book begins with a history of the FBI. An expose of the federal government's Cointelpro program to discredit, dismantle and destroy both the Black Panther Party and AIM (American Indian Movement) during the 1960s and early 70s. Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement You will read some crazy stuff, and he providIf I didn't think this guy was one of the most awesome, well researched and articulate anti-oppression scholars and activists in the world, I might be kind of scared of him. Most of Agents of Repression focuses on what was done in their campaign against the American Indian Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement [Churchill, Ward, Vander Wall, Jim, Churchill, Ward] on Amazon.com. Two thumbs up. Here is the proof. Unfortunately, the FBI succeeded, and by 1975 most of the leadership of both these radical organizations were jailed, self-exiled or murdered. Churchill could have expanded on his murder as well as other details involving the Black Panther Party. Item kan niet op de lijst worden gezet. Download Agents Of Repression books , For those wondering how Bill Clinton could pardon white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). A must-read for all who care about social change in this country. Churchill weaves a pretty convincing narrative of government crookedness, and he doesn't disguise his biases.
Most of the book focuses on the American Indian Movement instead (which is fine, but not my personal interest).
After finishing the book, the reader is left with skepticism and doubt about the FBI.A well researched and documented book.