Bicentennial Dilemma: Who's in Charge?

A group of University of Michigan students conceived of the teach-in "The Bicentennial Dilemma: Who's In Control?" in response to a television interview with Frank Church, "chairperson of the Senate Select Committee probing the Intelligence Community" in which he stated that "the Intelligence Network has the technological capacity to impose 'total tyranny' in the United States" (The Michigan Daily, October 31, 1975).

Held from November 2-4, 1975, this three-day teach-in (unaffiliated with the University of Michigan) included a series of speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and musical performances all investigating the role of technology in corporate and government "control." Specific topics included: assassinations, corporate manipulation, subversion of the forces of dissent, police repression, surveillance and "dataveillance," and mind control.

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