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Documentary features controversial FBI program
Chicano activists to hold discussion after Wednesday's viewing
Posted: Monday, April 2, 2012 12:00 am
By GAYLE PEREZ | gperez@chieftain.com
A history of the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program will be the focus of a documentary and panel discussion Wednesday night at Colorado State University-Pueblo.
The Counter Intelligence Program, more popularly known as COINTELPRO, was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the FBI aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting and disrupting domestic political organizations.
The political organizations targeted by COINTELPRO were those associated with civil rights, socialists, communists and anti-war movements. The aim of the program was to destroy movements for self-determination and liberation for blacks, Hispanics/Chicanos, Asian and indigenous people.
CSU-Pueblo's University Archives is hosting the showing of the documentary COINTELPRO 101 followed by a discussion from three well-known Chicano activists who are featured in the film.
The event is scheduled to begin with a reception at 6 p.m. followed by the showing of the documentary at 7 p.m.
The panel discussion with Chicano activists Priscilla Falcon, Francisco "Kiko" Martinez and Richard Romero will follow at 8 p.m.
All activities will be in room 109 of the Library and Academic Resource Center.
Falcon is a Chicana activist and professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Northern Colorado.
Her husband, Ricardo Falcon, was killed in a racially motivated altercation with a gas station attendant in Oro Grande, N.M., in 1972 while en route to the La Raza Unida convention in El Paso.
Martinez is a civil rights attorney in Alamosa. He was the target of law enforcement and FBI surveillance in the early 1970s because of his Chicano and leftist political views expressed through his legal and community work.
