On tonight's episode of Black Autonomy Federation Radio, we will discuss rising white supremacist activity in this period and counter protests to this activity. We also explore the role of the police/state in protecting white supremacist activity and restrictions on the right to protest.
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Black Autonomy Federation hosts will conducted part two of their discussion on the current tactics that law enforcement groups, including local police departments use to subvert the work of revolutionary social change groups in America.
You don't want to miss the informative podcast The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove: Counterinsurgency and Community Policing.
Tonight we discuss the past spying campaigns by the Memphis Police Department and the FBI but our main focus will on the current spying campaign against the Black Autonomy Federation since the creation of the Memphis, Tennessee group.
Since 2012 when our group has started, we have been subjected to a campaign of surveillance and disruption by local police, including the so-called "Peace Police", nonviolent white radical groups working with the cops as pacification agents to subvert our efforts to do community organizing, especially against police brutality.
We talk about how the government has used its control of the media to "disappear" us from local public commentary. It is important to know about CounterInsurgency in this period, which is a successor to the FBI's COINTELPRO which disrupted and destroyed civil rights groups and Black Power era movements like the Black Panther Party.
There has always been a Black liberation movement on the North American continent from the first enslaved African revolt to the Black power movements of the fifties, sixties and seventies.
The Black liberation movements were brought to a halt through the FBI counter intelligence program also known as cointelpro. The FBI under the leadership of J Edgar Hoover used covert operations against Black revolutionary groups that are arguably going on to this day.
The FBI's stated reason for engaging in this criminal activity was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order" or simply put, maintaining a system of white supremacy.
Tune tonight to Black Autonomy Federation Radio as they examine "What Happened To The Black Revolution and What Should Be Done Today".
As there is outrage that the US government has been spying on heads of states, we will look at "The Automated Targeting System" or ATS which is a United States Department of Homeland Security computerized system that, for every person who crosses U.S. borders, scrutinizes a large volume of data related to that person. It thens automatically assigns a rating helps gauge whether a person may be designated a terrorist or criminal. Join us tonight for a discussion on the issues surrounding this blatant intrusion in privacy.
