17 Nov 2002
The Weather Underground
The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
COINTELPRO 101
COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. “COINTELPRO” refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for the present and future.
Top Billed Cast
Liz Derias Self / Narrator (voice)
Bob Boyle Self - Attorney
Jose Lopez Self - Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Lucy Rodriguez Self - Puerto Rican Independentista / Former Political Prisoner
Leonard Peltier Self - Political Prisoner
Francísco "Kiko" Martinez Self - Chicano/Mexicano Activist & Attorney
Priscilla Falcon Self - Professor, Hispanic Studies, U. of Northern Colorado
Muhammad Ahmad Self - Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM)
J. Edgar Hoover Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr. Self (archive footage)
Kwame Ture Self (archive footage)
Akinyele Umoja Self - Professor, African American Studies, Georgia State U.
Geronimo Pratt Self - Black Panther Party / Former Political Prisoner
Laura Whitehorn Self - Activist / Former Political Prisoner
Kathleen Cleaver Self - Black Panther Party/Attorney
M. Wesley Swearingen Self - Former FBI Special Agent
Fred Hampton Self (archive footage)
Frank Church Self (archive footage)
Mumia Abu-Jamal Self (archive footage)
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