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Lisa Fithian: FBI Informant Brandon Darby : Sexism, Egos, and Lies
Brandon. Darby. Still from a video / videochannels.com.Sexism, egos, and lies:Sometimes you wake up and it is not different By Lisa Fithian / The Rag Blog / March 22, 2010 Community organizer and nonviolent activist/trainer Lisa Fithian will be Thorne … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Austin, Brandon Darby, Common Ground, Direct Action, Espionage, FBI, Lisa Fithian, New Orleans, Provocateurs, Rag Radio, Surveillance, Texas 2
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James Retherford : Brandon Darby, The Texas 2, and the FBI’s Runaway Informants
The Texas 2: David McKay and Bradley Crowder.The Texas 2: Intrigue, Provocation, and Betrayal The overarching story here is the blatant size of the federal government’s strategic operational use of informants and undercover agents against American citizens protesting eight years … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Brandon Darby, FBI, Informants, James Retherford, Social Activism, Texas, Texas 2
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Brandon Darby in New Orleans : FBI Informant Was Egotistical Sexist
This Activist Life: FBI snitch was also a sexist, authoritarian, provocative fraud By Victoria Welle [Victoria Welle worked with Brandon Darby at the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans. Common Ground is a community-run relief organization that played a major … Continue reading
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Brandon Darby : Austin Activist Outed as FBI Spy
Austin activist and admitted FBI informant Brandon Darby. Austin has its very own FBI spy. Recall that Scrub Bush took all the FBI agents off enforcing banking laws, and put them to work watching political groups here at home. — … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Common Ground, Convention, FBI, Informants, Katrina, Political Activists, Republican, Texas
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scott crow : White Vigilantes and the Battle of Algiers
One of numerous looter signs posted by white vigilantes in the small Algiers Point Neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina.Battle of Algiers:White vigilantes and the policein Katrina’s aftermath By scott crow / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2010 “…within the war … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Ground, Community Organizing, Katrina, New Orleans, Racism, Robert King, scott crow, Vigilante Justice
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Battle of Algiers:White vigilantes and the police in Katrina’s aftermath By scott crow / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2010 “…within the war we are all waging with the forces of death, subtle and otherwise, conscious or not – … Continue reading
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Battle of Algiers: white vigilantes and the police in Katrina’s aftermath By scott crow / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2010 “…within the war we are all waging with the forces of death, subtle and otherwise, conscious or not … Continue reading
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BOOKS / Mariann G. Wizard : The Odyssey of Our Winter Soldiers
Nancy Miller Saunders’ Combat by Trial:Documenting 20th century ‘winter soldiers’ By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / August 25, 2010 Combat by Trial: An Odyssey with 20th Century Winter Soldiers by Nancy Miller Saunders. (iUniverse, Inc., 2008.) 591 … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Anti-War Vets, Books, Mariann G. Wizard, Nancy Miller Saunders, SDS, Vietnam, VVAW, Watergate
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