ShowAfrica Live
Broadcast TitlePRISM and COINTELPRO: Obama's Secret War on the African Community
Broadcast Date2013-06-30
Record Date2013-06-30
SummaryThis week Africa Live is presenting a special 3-hour show looking in to the recent revelations that the Obama administration presides over the NSA's program to spy on the emails and phone calls not only of U.S. residents but the whole world. Host Dedan Sankara will probe into the NSA's PRISM program and its legal and political ramifications as well as its historic connection to the U.S. government's COINTELPRO which assassinated our leaders and imprisoned our activists in the 1960s and 70s. Guests on the show will include Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor; Attorney Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights; Chairman Omali Yeshitela, leader of the African Socialist International, International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement President Diop Olugbala and Secretary General Luwezi Kinshasa from London.