Laura Flanders Show - Hamid Khan: The Surveillance-Industrial Complex

Surveillance, spying, and infiltration has a long history in the United States — from the Police Red Squads in the 1880s to the FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) to today. This week's guest says The “surveillance-industrial complex” has profound but poorly understood impacts on our political, structural, economic, and cultural lives. Hamid Kahn is the director of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, and serves on the boards of several organizations, including the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Political Research Associates, and Youth Justice Coalition. Also in this episode, we meet the students that forced Columbia University to divest from private prisons. All this, and Laura discusses US government spying on Black Lives Matter movement activists. teleSUR