60 Years Ago Today: Police Attack Children’s Crusade with Dogs & Water Cannons in Birmingham, Alabama
Sixty years ago today is known as “D-Day” in Birmingham, Alabama, when thousands of children began a 10-week-long series of protests against segregation that became known as the Children’s Crusade. Hundreds were arrested. The next day, “Double D-Day,” the local head of the police, Bull Connor, ordered his white police force to begin using high-pressure fire hoses and dogs to attack the children. One photograph captured the moment when a white police officer allowed a large German shepherd dog to attack a young Black boy. Four months after the protests began, the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Black Birmingham church, killing four young girls — Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Denise McNair. We revisit the history of the Children’s Crusade with two guests: civil rights activist Janice Kelsey, who joined the Children’s Crusade as a 16-year-old in 1963, and author Paul Kix.
Tasked With Stopping Terror, Colorado’s Intel Agency Monitors Students Protesting Gun Violence
Experts have long criticized fusion centers like CIAC for operating with broad authorities and little oversight.
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#WhiteSupremacistTerrorists? "COINTELPRO 2.0: How the FBI Infiltrated BLM Protests After Police Murder of George Floyd"
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<span class="caps">COINTELPRO</span> 2.0: How the <span class="caps">FBI</span> Infiltrated <span class="caps">BLM</span> Protests After Police Murder of George Floyd
A new podcast out today called “Alphabet Boys” documents how the FBI disrupted racial justice organizing after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, including paying an informant at least $20,000 to infiltrate and spy on activist groups in Denver, Colorado. The informant also encouraged activists to purchase guns and commit violence, echoing the FBI’s use of the COINTELPRO program to sabotage left-wing activist groups in the 1960s. For more, we’re joined by three guests: journalist and creator of the “Alphabet Boys” podcast Trevor Aaronson, Denver-based activist Zebbodios Hall, who was one of many activists targeted by the FBI’s infiltration, and former FBI special agent and whistleblower Mike German, who left the agency after reporting misconduct and mismanagement in its counterterrorism efforts.
The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver’s Racial Justice Movement
Mickey Windecker encouraged violence, accused Denver activist leaders of being police cooperators, and tried to draw demonstrators into elaborate stings.
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