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Dr. Sara Diaz WGST 499: Symposium Gonzaga University Assata Shakur

WGST 499 Day 15 Shakur

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Dr. Sara DiazWGST 499: SymposiumGonzaga University

Assata Shakur

Last Unit• Anything you want to read, specifically?? Send me

suggestions!

• Particularly interested in focusing on vision, imagination, creativity as they pertain to building a feminist future.• But it could really be ANYTHING.

• We had flex time next week but we don’t need it, so look for pdf readings about “autoethnography” and “testimonio” to scaffold Paper 2.

• We will workshop Paper 2 on 4/2 in class, so have an outline/draft by that time

SHOOT OUT ON NJ TURN-PIKE:WHAT HAPPENED?

Sequence of Events

COINTELPRO• “COINTELPRO The FBI began COINTELPRO—short for

Counterintelligence Program—in 1956 to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party of the United States. In the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Black Panther Party. All COINTELPRO operations were ended in 1971. Although limited in scope (about two-tenths of one percent of the FBI’s workload over a 15-year period), COINTELPRO was later rightfully criticized by Congress and the American people for abridging first amendment rights and for other reasons.”

COINTELPRO

• Black Extremists• Puerto Rican Groups• New Left (Students for a Democratic

Society)• Socialist Workers Party• Operation “Hoodwink”• Also some white supremacist groups.

FBI Infiltration• Today: Occupy Groups, Palestinian student organizations, etc• Posing as reporters as activists, etc• Encouraging activists to inform on one another.

• Rasmea Odeh• Palestinian political prisoner (in Israel)• Raped/tortured in Israeli prison 45 years ago• Convicted of immigration fraud in US• Now imprisoned in US and stripped of citizenship

• National Security Administration• Chelsea Manning• Snowden• Wiki-leaks

Terrorist or Terrified?• Angela Davis – Professor monitored by COINTELPRO• As a child she was friends with the girls killed in the Birmingham

church bombing.• KKK attacks in her community, father had a gun to protect family.• Bought guns in early 1970s in the context of police violence in her

community.• Guns were taken and used in a murder, so she was charged with

murder.• Rachel Dolezal – Spokane NAACP President & Professor• Racist rape & death threats• Got a gun to protect herself and pulled her son out of school.

• Is she an armed black militant?• What might happen if she had to use that gun?