Framing the Panthers; Counterterror: North of Ireland

Framing the Panthers; Counterterror: North of Ireland

woman filmmaker, documentary, radical, activist, Black Panthers, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, high schoolers, interview, race, abolition, prison, COINTELPRO, FBI, Black Liberation Army, trial, housing, violence, racism, liberals, Vietnam War, armed resistance, “justice” system, police

Two great videos shared with me by my friend, the activist video artists, Annie Goldson and Chris Bratton.  

Note: From minute 06:11 to the end (31:16) the recording is corrupted. This offers the viewer the opportunity to listen to the audio (which is not corrupted) and watch decay in action. The corruption has produced some interesting effects. For much of the documentary the top half of the screen is illegible. Because of this, viewers rarely get to see non-distorted faces, mainly just bodies or half-views of buildings, parking lots, crowds, and so on. When there the corruption is less pronounced, scenes are distorted and dragged out. The colours are fantastic too. At first it is hard to watch, but give it time. (Chris Harding)

Video Data Bank

1990

VHS

Documentary

Counterterror: North of Ireland:

• This video takes its departure from the BBC's coverage of the killing of three IRA volunteers by British Security Forces in Strabane, a small town on the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Interrogating television discourse, the video examines what is referred to as the British “shoot to kill” policy of planned assassination in the North.(VDB)
  
  Framing The Panthers in Black & White charts the FBI’s covert campaign against the Black Panther Party, focusing on the story of one of its targets, Dhoruba Bin Wahad. A former Panther leader, Bin Wahad spent 19 years in prison as a result of COINTELPRO, the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program, which was designed to destroy political activism in the 1960s and 70s. (VDB)

Rhodes, Jane. Framing the Black Panthers: The spectacular rise of a Black Power icon. University of Illinois Press, 2017.

Odinga, Sekou, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, and Jamal Joseph. Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-century Revolutions. PM Press, 2017.

Black Panther Party Book List 1968:
- Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Fanon, Frantz, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Constance Farrington. The wretched of the earth. Vol. 36. New York: Grove press, 1963.
- Nkrumah, Kwame. I speak of freedom. Panaf, 1961.
- Aptheker, Herbert. Nat Turner's slave rebellion: including the 1831" Confessions". Courier Corporation, 2012.
- Bowman, William, Frank Chiteji, and J. Megan Greene. "Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized." In Imperialism in the Modern World, pp. 168-172. Routledge, 2016.
- Garvey, Marcus. Philosophy and Opinions: Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey. Vol. 2. Universal Publishing House, 1926.

Ireland and the Troubles, further reading:
- Bell, J.Bowyer. The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence, 1967-1992. Dublin: Gill and
Macmillan, 1993.
- Coogan, Tim Pat, The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace, London:
Hutchinson, 1995.
- Holland, Jack, Hope Against History: The Ulster Conflict, London: Coronet Lir Books, 1999
- David McKittrick, Making Sense of the Troubles, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2000

28 mins; 29 mins

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