[act-ma] 1/16 CHUCK TURNER - "The FBI's Targeting of Black Leadership"

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THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...

Sunday, January 16, 2011
11:00am

Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
CHUCK TURNER
"COINTELPRO 2.0: The FBI's Targeting of Black Leadership"

Rev. Bill Alberts, past CCB minister wrote, "The Federal Bureau of
Investigation pays a black man (Ronald Wilburn) $30,000 to offer a bribe of
$1,000 to a black Boston City Councilor (Chuck Turner). What's wrong with
this picture?" The FBI also paid an informant to bribe Senator Dianne
Wilkerson. They have used these tactics around the country, taking power
away from Black leadership, perpetuating white supremacy. We will discuss
the role of the FBI in the political attacks in Boston within the larger
framework of an FBI program to harass communities of color across the
nation.

Chuck Turner has been a community organizer and civil rights activist in
Boston, Massachusetts since 1966. Referred to as one of the best-known
agitators in the city, he was elected to the Boston City Council in 1999. As
a Boston city council member, Turner has continued his defense of civil and
human rights. He authored an ordinance protecting transgendered people from
discrimination. He successfully led an effort to protect the affirmative
action guidelines of Massachusetts when Governor Mitt Romney fought to
change them. And, as chairman of the Education Committee, he has rallied
against educational inequality in the Boston public schools. The list of his
accomplishments goes on!


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PAUL BARAN
"Re-Engaging the Muslim World: An Obama Foreign Policy Doctrine?"


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