 Okay, so our next presentation is going to be a reading from the books, three part series books called murder incorporated empire genocide and manifest destiny. I'm just going to read a little bit about them here. This is a internationally celebrated black writer and radio journalist author of six books and hundreds of columns and articles. He's an organizer organizer and inspiration for the prison prison lawyers movement, former member of the black Panther Party and supporter of his radical move organization. He spent the last 30 years in prison, almost all of it in solitary solid solitary confinement in Pennsylvania is death row. Millions of people in this country and around the world, believe moving it is innocent and of course I do. Stephen Victoria is a film director and producer is documentary films include long distance revolutionary. A jury was moving out of motion. What a great film and one bright shining moment the forgotten summer of George McGovern. He is also co-authored with moving up this new three parts series titled murder incorporated empire genocide and manifest destiny. Thank you. Thank you. And we have an endorsement from them and I'm going to read that and then introduce our reader. So, I'm Stephen Victoria says, mumia bull Jamal and I were honored to include two passage or passage from our murder incorporated book series. We're only reading one here will post the other one. The importance of the Cold War Truth Commission can be found in two places. First, right in their very name, truth, offering sanity to a truly insane chapter of history. Secondly, more truth found in the hearts of the folks who have undertaken this invaluable project. And our reader today will be Alexis Green. She is a California State University Chico alumna from Los Angeles. She is currently on a mission to write, illustrate and distribute educational coloring books. As the founder of AJG books, a graphic design and book publishing service. All right, can everyone can everyone hear me? Yes. Yes. So good afternoon or evening good evening everyone. So, as Miss Brunke said, my name is Alexis Green. I'll be reading an excerpt from Murder Incorporated Empire Genocide and Manifest Destiny by Mumia Abu Jamal and Stephen Victoria. A segment from book three perfecting tyranny chapter six stasi 2.0. Citizens commissioned to investigate the FBI on 8 March 1971 110 miles away from media Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier were pummeling each other in Madison Square Garden. The eyes of the world were focused on the fight of the century. But that evening in media, a sleepy Hamlet residents call everyone's hometown, a daring break in was underway at a small FBI field office. More than 1000 classified break. Oh, sorry one 1000 more than 1000 classified documents were retrieved by a small group of passionate American citizens who were active in both the civil rights and anti war movements. Arden dissenters against the want the wanton murder in Southeast Asia, as well as a domestic terrorist actions under foot by US intelligence community hostile to the recently slain M okay civil rights black liberation as well as other groups fighting for justice. This tight group, known as the citizens commissioned to investigate the FBI knew it was time to do some to do more than protests. As Ali peppered smoke and Joe with the barrage of stinking jabs and Joe countered with the historic left hook that sent the Louisville lip crashing to the canvas. The Bureau's mouth ease, mouth ease and mouth ease and corruption was about to be revealed by a activist who broke into the tiny FBI office and gathered up every document they could find. Among the documents reports that democracy now was one that bore the mysterious word coin tell pro one of the activists slash burglars john rains acknowledges the group, the group consisted of whistleblowers before whistleblower had entered the lexicon. He also knew citizens had to do something bold, something intrepid. Yes, something intrepid because Hoover, besides being diabolical was also untouchable. He had presidents who are afraid of him rains explains. Nobody was holding him accountable and that meant somebody had to get objective evidence of what his FBI was doing, get their files and get what they're doing in their own handwriting. At the time Betty Medsker Medsker was a reporter for the Washington Post. Shortly after the break in she received the cash of documents from Liberty publications with a letter from the Citizens Commission to investigate the FBI, explaining when where when and why the stash of evidence was collected. Medsker was shocked and stunned by the trail of criminal behavior perpetrated by the Bureau, and it quickly became apparent to the reporter that Hoover's FBI was especially fond of conducting quote blanket surveillance of African American people unquote. The documents detailed surveillance programs in nearby Philadelphia as well as various national programs. The documents also revealed that the illicit spying and counselor intelligence was ubiquitous throughout the community. Churches classrooms stores down the street just everything. In fact the FBI was grooming informants in every walk of life, all of them targeting domestic dissenters. The revelations also expose the FBI is directive to, quote, enhance the paranoia, unquote, of anti war activists through harassment intimidation rumors lies and invent an installing agent provoc, provoc, provocators everywhere. The surveillance, quote, the surveillance was so enormous, unquote, explains Medsker that it led various people, the various people, rather sedate people in editorial offices and in Congress to compare it to the Stasi, the dreaded secret police of East Germany. The media whistleblowers protected their anonymity for more than 40 years, forcing the press and public to focus on the substantive content substantive, substantive content rather than the worn out and predictable debate over whether the burglars were treacherous will know treasonous or not. As was the case with Daniel Ellsberg, and the release of his Pentagon papers just three months later. On that fateful night, Frazier narrowly beat Ali, and while the two warriors nurse their wounds in a building anchored between 7th Avenue and 34th Street, each of eight other warriors set up shop in a Pennsylvania farmhouse and dropped a dime on the bruise ugly and illegal operation. The closure of Hoover's massive and secretive kelp pro coin tell pro hijinks, along with his iniquitous violations of civil civil liberties, helped pave a way for the notable church committee, headed by Senator Frank Church of Ohio. Idaho, that investigated the entire spectrum of us intelligence operations. In fact, the church committees damning report triggered various congressional intelligence oversight committees, including the House select committee on assassinations, as well as the defense surveillance court, or FISA, which as we've seen sort of kept us surveillance in check for a short time. As expected, control by FISA waned as the various agencies kicked back, and then the subsequent reform met reform measures, dramatically dried up with the election of Ronald Reagan. On the 9th of March in 1971 in the quiet suburbs, West of Philadelphia, eight courageous men and women with ice in their veins decided to hell with civil obedience and put everything on the line in an audacious move to alert their fellow citizens that treachery was under foot in a move that defines self sacrifice. These eight unexpected swashbuckling activists bring to mind the essence of William, counselors words when he spoke of the tragedy, courage and death at Kent State University. These were his words, the four who died here, the nine who were wounded here, they did more for their country than all the Nixon's and the Agnews Agnews, I believe, and the Reagan's could possibly do. End excerpt. Thank you, Alexis.