[Marxism] Update on Ward Churchill

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is an example of why it doesn't make any sense for Marxists to parrot
the mass media's current project of discrediting as silly all socalled
conspiracy theories. It is politically irresponsible to fail to discuss the
current attacks on Churchill as planned and organized by rightwing elements.

CB


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Ward's writing focuses on the government's failure to comply with the
Constitution and with international law, both with respect to American
Indians and in its foreign policy. In some circles he is best known for
documenting the FBI's COINTELPRO operations and their attempts to destroy
the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (AIM). These
governmental actions, of course, included disinformation campaigns in which
bogus "news" was fed to the media by government sources, people's personal
lives were publicly shredded, dissent was fomented within organizations,
activists were gratuitously charged with criminal conduct and, when all else
failed, those considered most threatening to the status quo were falsely
imprisoned or assassinated.

In addition to being a scholar, for over thirty years Ward has also been a
political activist. As a result, he has been under intense surveillance *
well documented by FBI and Denver police files * and has often been attacked
politically. Never, however, as intensely as at present.



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