i also want to recognize fred hampton's mother who was here tonight. [applause] >> and also, bill hampton fred's brother and fred's sister. >> and [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce -- >> and [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce -- berkshires. she is here tonight also. [applause] >> i want to thank northwestern and bernadine for bringing together such a prestigious and accomplished panel. i feel like now, i can sit down and hear what they have to say. i am and all of the people who are here tonight and their accomplishments. i want to thank bernadine for putting it together and for being one of the inspirations for wired with this book. it was bernadine mentioned that fred hampton spoke at northwestern university law school almost exactly 40 years ago to the day. the person who introduced him was a young law student by the name of [indiscernible] who is sitting in the front row. apparently, i wasn't there but he stammered through an introduction of fred. when fred got up he

amamy: that was fred hampton speaking in the 1969 documentary "thehe murder of fred hampton." fred hamampton and m mark clarke assassinated by the fbi in chicago police 50 years ago today. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we're broadcasting from stockholm, sweden, where the right livelihood award is marking its 40th anniversary. the right livevelihood award was establblished inin 1980 to honod support those "offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." it has since become known as the alternative nobel prize. over the past four decades, it's been given to activists and grassroots leaders around the globe, a number of whom have gone on to win t the nobobel pee prprize. this year's winners are the 16-year-old swedish climate activist greta thunberg, sahrawi human rights activist aminatou haidar, chinese women's rights lawyer guo jianmei, and brazilian indigenous leader davi kopenawa and the yanomami hutukara association. they fight for the amazon's

on this day on the 50th anniversary of the murder of fred hampton and mark what i remember so well fred wsh one of the things he said stands out to me on this very day. you can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill a revolution. you can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill a revolution. and madam speaker, that ought to mean something to this body, because no matter where we are today, this body, this united the premise nded of a revolution. so fred was right. revolution continues even to this day. ed's blood still introducing fruit. congressman davis mentioned it. look at the people who are his ed by fred and ltimate sacrifice. indirect response o fred hampton and mark clark. the first african-american woman in the history of this nation. the mayor from baltimore, to seattle, to new york and other places inspired by harold washington, which was inspired and which was founded on the blood of fred hampton. all these things would not have existed if it were not for his life for a cause of freedom, justice and equality. the adam speaker, even 44th president of the united , his life ck

about roles in american is not simply real and in isolation we see daniel kalu you know playing fred hampton we see more of the play by david alarm and what we don't see is a critical analysis not only you know who else got to audition for these roles but also who are these people and what is their lineage so we would never accept a white person playing harriet tubman for whatever a multitude of reasons appearance lineage everything else but we don't want to ask that question about somebody who is it well we need to know more this is not black in america and it's not a lot across the globe and tony and i let me just ask people who are not nigerian the info is one of the tribes in nigeria and i had to speak of a who plays roles where denzel washington played in much ado about nothing that kenneth branagh i think in the eighty's or ninety's he didn't read british accent he he just you know worked his way through that i remember that actually it was a slightly odd so here you have all these chicks theory in. activists and you have them and he was there and i watch it and i said you know i like

i also want to recognize fred hampton's mother who was here tonight. [applause]

wars and legal surveillance and illegal assassinations of people from john wayne to them okay fred hampton who we noted earlier this week and the unaccountability and on transparency to the public, how earnings are being spot i would argue that increased oversight may help you get there. >> i don't think you can abolish it but you can break it up and take away portions of the mission and embody cigna giving oversight, what we have seen including online surveillance of protesters to undermine the political system is undergoing and is terrifying we should be afraid of those things and we need to think about what is happening and to engage in systematic oversight and construction of these efforts so that it does not dangers in the body politics. i don't think you get rid of this because as necessary. >> with that we conclude our first panel, i want to think the panelist for putting this on. and you want me too make -- >> we will take a 15 minute break and refreshments are available in the winter garden is located on the first floor and restroom is located and when you reach the bottom of the

he arrived the same day that fred hampton died. what does that mean politically?e was born and then understand him as a figure and an icon in american society so, that takes a lot of history, sociology, politics then, we get to the dope lyrics [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah you break the book down into three categories >> um-hmm. >> jimmy: can you tell us what those are? >> the first one is hustling uh, the historian walter macdougall says that, "hustling is the central motif of american history, both in the sense of go-getters and people who are on the take." so, i try to look at what jay-z talks about. you know, he explains why he became a hustler when he says, "all the teachers couldn't reach me and my mama couldn't beat me hard enough to beat the match pain of my pop not seeing me so, with that disdain in my membrane, got on my pimp game. et my defense came. so, he's explaining, a father absence and hurting pain at the house drove him out into the world. so, i talk about how he hustled selling drugs, but how he transformed that hustling from the street into to th

illegal things from people from john lennon to mlk to fred hampton.the unaccountability and non- transparency to the public of how our earnings being it's been. >> i would argue that increased oversight may help you get there. >> why is everyone looking at me. [laughter]. i don't think you can abolish it. i think you can break it up. major portions of its mission can be taken away. they you can and body. this specific oversight. i think what we have seen, are including ongoing surveillance of war protesters. undermine our ongoing threats to the security democracy. that is terrifying we should be afraid of those things we need to think about what is happening and to engage in systematic oversight. an restriction of these efforts. so that is not dangerous to the body politic. you won't be able to get rid of those functions because they are necessary to sustain these concepts. his stomach with, we conclude our first battle. i want to thank all of the panelist and cato for putting this on. we'll take those 15 minute break. refreshments are available in th

illegal wars, illegal surveillance, illegal assassination of people from john lennon to mlk to fred hampton? and the unaccountability and non-transparency to the public, how are earnings being spent? >> i would argue that increased oversight may help you get there. >> why is everyone looking at me? i don't think you can abolish it but i think you can break it up. i think you take when major portions of its mission. i think you can embody significant oversight. i think that it is, what we've seen like you identified, including ongoing surveillance of war protesters and efforts to undermine our domestic political system is an ongoing threat to the security and nature of our democracy. that it is terrifying that we should be afraid of those things and we need to think about what is happening and to engage in systematic oversight and reconstruction of these efforts so that it is not dangerous to the body politic. but i don't think you will be able to get rid of those functions because they are necessary. >> all right. and with that we conclude our first panel. i want to thank all the panels and

somebody in the audience earlier today mentioned to me murder of fred hampton who was killed by the chicago police 50 years ago earlier this week. that was a police raid set up by the operation. in 1956, hoover convince the supreme court too liberal. he cannot prosecute under criminal law. he has to program them to neutralize them and disrupt each that is perfectly legal by the very nature. lawful speech that he deems threatening and wants to get rid of. that is what it is about. it starts with communist. it goes to a socialist workers party. a tricky bag that i will not talk about. could go on all day about it. the planned informant for the fbi testified during the church committee. he did not want his face on tv so they gave them a disguise. it clashed with the marin suit, too. all around bad choices. we have the church committee reform. often times through this narrative, yes, there was was bad stuff. then 9/11 happened. there is this mythical era of the fbi. one of the biggest fbi spying scandals was was there surveillance of the committee? opposing what ronald reagan was doing to the p

describes how he and his law partner took on the case described in his book the assassination of fred hampton how the fbi and the chicago police murdered a black panther. after the presentation, panelist discusses -- a panel discusses. this event was covered at northwestern university school of law in chicago in 2009.