Native American studies. CD format. "We don't have to worry about whether we will have a political police either in the United States or Canada. We've had them for a long time...It's not a question of how to prevent it, it's a question of how to deal with it since it is an existent reality"--Ward Churchill, from the CD. According to Churchill, the U.S. government has used all means to subvert and neutralize movements for social change. This lecture focuses on the FBI's counter intelligence programs (COINTELPRO), their use in undermining dissent and the criminal justice system's role as an agent of social control.

Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Cherokee) is professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado/Boulder. A member of the leadership council of Colorado AIM (American Indian Movement), he is a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. A prolific writer and lecturer, he has authored, co-authored or edited more than twenty books.