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#tdih 1971 A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn. & stole docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt and destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs. Read⬇️ #TeachTruth
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Despite massive FBI campaign to find "burglars" of Media, Penn. office who exposed COINTELPRO, their identities remained secret until they came forward in 2014. See ⬇️ on @democracynow. For lessons on #CivilDisobedience

Watch @1971film by @JHamilton71. democracynow.org/2014/1/8/it_wa…
Textbooks say little of this FBI role in U.S. history, but it’s essential background for today.

HS teacher Ursula Wolfe-Rocca wrote a lesson using COINTELPRO primary docs. Students are gripped by docs.

Free. See ⬇️ for gr. 7+ to #TeachOutsideTextbook zinnedproject.org/materials/coin…
"Luckily, we don't need to rely on corporate textbook publishers & FBI for our resources & curriculum.

Thanks to Media burglars, & their suitcases of stolen docs, we have access to memos from this FBI program of destruction." Read ⬇️ by @ladyofsardines
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The role of COINTELPRO included assassinations.

On Dec. 4, 1969, Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton, 21 and Mark Clark, 22, were shot to death by 14 police officers as they lay sleeping in their Chicago apartment. FBI was involved.

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See film ⬇️ on how Chicago's BPP formed alliances across race & ethnicity with other groups to address policing, housing, & more.

For COINTELPRO & now "anti-CRT" attackers, real concern isn't (as they claim) "white guilt," but "interracial solidarity."
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You can help bring lessons about COINTELPRO and other people's history to more students in 2022.

To keep all our lessons free, to reach more teachers, and to defend students' right to study this history -- we depend on individuals like you. Donate ⬇️
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