All Power To The People: Black Panthers & Beyond Main Points
-Introduction:
Context of the struggle- the begginings: Marthin Luther King (moderate: no violence) VS Malcom X (more radical, criticise ofcapitalism as the problem). Demostrations asking rights (vote, public services...) for black people.
-Beggining of Black Panther Party:
Malcom X’s dead as the last straw to create the organization.Origins, backgrounds, reasons (self-defence against the police brutality), ten points program (agenda), wacht the police programs.
-Conflict with the state: gun battles, detentions...= organizationsless power. Huey Newton’s detention= creation of a leader
-Reorganization after the repression, growing of the organization, expasion, becoming of an “army” (buying guns in huge quantities)
-TheVietnam War and The Black Panther (support to the Vietnamese sending Black Panther militants to fight the USA army)
-Marthin Luther King and his dead: protests, riots, the meaning of hisassassination.
-The State’s answer: assassinations (Bobby Hutton, Fred Humpton...) and repression.
-Collaborations of the Black Panthers with other groups (indigenous, Puerto Rican...)
-Analisys of theorganization: Maoism and other ideologies’ influences, Women in the Party.
-Social labour. Free hospital clinics, meals program, schools, rehabilitation programs for drug addicted...= gainingsupport.
-Cointelpro and the foul play: fighting the organizations with ilegals methods (false letters, drugs, shootings, judgements and prison.
-Inside problems: autoritarism vs democracy,infiltrations, Newton’s tirany, Central comitte, assasinations between panthers and the end of the organization.
-Coming to light the abuses of FBI, CIA...
-Cointelpro and the indigenous movement (justto mention it)
-reflexions of the diferent people interviewed in the documentary
+ Apearring opinions from the “others” (example: F.B.I. and C.I.A. agents, Journalists...)
Curiosities:...
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