Compendium: New Afrikan (AA) Political Prisoners/Prisoners of War in U.S.

[dready]

props on this thread op

 

[BrokePhiBroke]

You mean writing letters to some of our POWs? I wrote a handful back in college but admittedly have dropped the ball since. Something I need to get around to as I learn more about each case and whatnot

The fact did you did it is amazing.

I honestly just never knew this stuff. Period. I was looking up so things last night and this is right on time because everything comes together.

 

[Ricky Fontaine]

I had to bump this thread. Great job @JahFocus CS .

This actually gets me a little emotional. Just think fam. This could happen to ANY of us just because of what we say on here, which is the TRUTH. Don't let this die.

 

[JahFocus CS]

Entry #3: Dr. Mutulu Shakur

Early Life:

Mutulu Shakur was born on August 8, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland as Jeral Wayne Williams. At age seven he moved to Jamaica, Queens, New York City with his mother and younger sister. Shakur’s political and social consciousness began to develop early in his life. His mother suffered not only from being Black and female, but was also blind. These elements constituted Shakur’s first confrontation with the state, while assisting his mother to negotiate through the maze that made up the social service system. Through this experience, Shakur learned that the system did not operate in the interests of Black people and that Black people must control the institutions that affect their lives.

Political Life:

Since the age 16, Dr. Shakur has been a part of the New Afrikan Independence Movement. As a part of this movement Dr. Shakur has been a target of the illegal Counterintelligence Program carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (COINTELPRO). This was a secret police strategy used in the U.S. starting in the 1960′s to destroy and neutralize progressive and revolutionary organizations. It is believed that Dr. Shakur’s resistance to this program led to his arrest and trial.

During the late sixties, Dr. Shakur was politically active and worked with the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), a Black Nationalist group which struggled for Black self-determination and socialist change in America. He was also a member of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika which endorsed the founding of an independent New Afrikan (Black) Republic and the establishment of an independent Black state in the southern U.S. Dr. Shakur also worked very closely with the Black Panther Party, supporting his brother Lumumba Shakur and Zayd.

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Legal Case:

In March 1982, Dr. Shakur and 10 others were indicted by a federal grand jury under a set of U.S. conspiracy laws called “Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization” (RICO) laws. These conspiracy laws were ostensibly developed to aid the government in its prosecution of organized crime figures; however, they have been used with varying degrees of success against revolutionary organizations. Dr. Shakur was charged with conspiracy and participation in a clandestine paramilitary unit that carried out actual and attempted expropriations from several banks. Eight incidents were alleged to have occurred between December 1976 to October 1981. In addition he was charged with participation in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur, who is now in exile in Cuba (the question of Dr. Shakur being charged with participation when in fact they alleged he masterminded her escape creates the true fact of COINTELPRO). After five years underground, Dr. Shakur was arrested on February 12, 1986. He was supposed to be released in February 2016 but is being held likely for political reasons that violate his rights. His legal team has pending litigation to address the refusal to release him.

Life in Prison:

Dr. Shakur is the father of six children. His son Tupac was assassinated in 1996. He has solid evidence that it was a continuation of COINTELPRO. The F.B.I., the Federal Bureau of Prisons and law enforcement made every effort to keep him separated from his son Tupac.

Source
Also peep the site hosted by Dr. Shakur's family & friends

Ways to support Dr. Shakur...
Donate to his legal defense, etc. (see here for more info)https://www.paypal.com/donate/?toke...yO2ZVU-I210u2npsg44W&country.x=US&locale.x=US

Write to Brother Dr. Shakur at:

Dr. Mutulu Shakur #83205-012
Victorville USP
P.O. Box 3900
Adelanto, CA 92301

 

[JahFocus CS]

 

[JahFocus CS]

 

[JahFocus CS]

Finally watching All Eyez On Me, the speech about political prisoners at the beginning I wish that had generated much more discussion in our community to raise awareness! These heroes have been doing real football numbers. For decades.