MHCHAOS Agents & Johnny Acid-seeds (Pt. III): The Columbia Comnunes Trigger COINTELPRO Recalibration (Patreon)

We're back. All aboard the MHCHAOS Agents & Johnny Acid-seeds bus. I couldn't help myself, had to outdo the high benchmark set by Pt. I. Here comes installment #3, clocking in at nearly 6 hrs. I think our MHCHAOS Agents primary & secondary source assemblage is coming along nicely. 

In this episode, we set the foundation of our ethnographic & forensic recreation of the Columbia Uprisings, illustrating how the Communes were both a significant moment in New Left history, inciting a new militant stage in various NL groups' political development, and also how the Communes triggered the formalization & reprioritization of COINTELPRO, showing how it looms large over the history of American counterintel & counterinsurgency in the past 60 years. We also roll out some proper COINTELPRO & targeting of New Left and Civil Rights mvmt context to effectively situate our half audio-documentary, half Ramparts report Columbia Uprising history.

The main, new sources for this one are: 

Vander Wall & Churchill's - The COINTELPRO PAPERS

Joshua Melville - American Time Bomb

Ramparts (May, '68 Issue) - "[An Exclusive Report] The Siege of Columbia"

The Columbia Revolt documentary

And a couple Democracy Now! Clips

I'm in the middle of prepping to move, so the index & routine notes may arrive in a separate post or else I may revise this a little later.

Songs & Clips:

| The Moment America Learned of MLK Jr's Death (RFK Jr., Lyndon Johnson) |

| Kwame Ture's response to the assassination of MLK |

| Archie Shepp - "Attica Blues" |

| Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. "COINTELPRO" (Judas and the Black Messiah) |

| History Channel - FBI's Poison Pen Letter to MLK |

| Kapitol P - "Free Em All ft. Fred Hampton Jr." |

| Eisenhower Farewell Address |

| "In Gaza Protest, Columbia Students Occupy Hamilton Hall, Site of Historic '68 Takeover" (Democracy Now!) |

| Newsreel - "Columbia Revolt" Doc |

| Chi-lites - "Give More Power to the People!!" |