Targeted by Design: Fred Hampton, COINTELPRO & the Black Panthers

Erased Blueprints: Fred Hampton (Targeted by Design)Fred Hampton was building the kind of community power the state couldn’t control—and COINTELPRO moved to stop it.In this episode, we unpack Hampton’s organizing, the Black Panther Party’s survival programs, and the COINTELPRO tactics designed to disrupt movements from the inside: surveillance, infiltration, disinformation, conflict-stoking, and criminalization. Then we talk about the final step—when the state tries to erase the builder and rewrite the story so nobody copies the blueprint.Pattern Breakers question: What’s one community program we need right now that would change everything?Subscribe on your favorite platforms: https://pod.link/1861495208