[Pnews] Political Prisoner Dr. Mutulu Shakur: More than Tupac’s stepfather!

[Prisoner News]

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February 18, 2016


  Dr. Mutulu Shakur: More than Tupac’s stepfather!

*/by the New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots 
Movement (NAPO-MXGM)/*

Dr. Mutulu Shakur, a founding member of the New African People’s 
Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, is one of the 
longest held political prisoners of war in USA federal detention at this 
time. He has been locked down and kept from his people for over 30 years 
since his capture on Feb. 11, 1986. He was charged and convicted of 
freeing our Sister Assata Shakur from prison and masterminding a 1981 
expropriation of a Brinks armored truck.

Dr. Shakur was set for release on Feb. 10, 2016, to “mandatory parole” 
without need for any hearing, according to the United States Parole 
Commission. However, on Feb. 8 he was informed that he would be 
scheduled to get a mandatory parole “hearing” on April 4, 2016, and 
consequently he was not released on Feb. 10.

According to the feds, Dr. Shakur could only be denied release if the 
federal Parole Commission determined that there was “reasonable 
probability that Dr. Shakur will commit any federal, state or local 
crime, or that Dr. Shakur has frequently or seriously violated the rules 
of the institution in which he is confined.”

The United States government knows that none of these exceptions hold true.

Dr. Shakur has promoted unity and cooperation between prisoners in the 
federal system. He has mentored and guided young brothers in the system 
as well as youth and students in the community who support him.

He has argued and promoted for at least a decade for a “truth, 
reconciliation and justice” process between the U.S. government and the 
Black Liberation Movement to bring to the open the harm done from both 
sides in our people’s struggle for freedom. This would be in the 
tradition of other truth and reconciliation and truth and justice 
processes in countries like South Africa and Argentina after long and 
bloody political conflicts between liberation movements and oppressive 
governments with the aim of peace and justice.

Yet despite this, it is clear that the United States federal government 
fears freeing Dr. Mutulu Shakur, not for any harm or disruption he has 
committed over the past 30 years or for fear of any supposed crime he 
might commit in the future, but because of his consistent history of 
commitment to the self-determination and liberation of the New Afrikan 
Nation, so-called African Americans.

While he has become known and popularized among the youth as the 
stepfather of revolutionary hip hop artist Tupac Shakur, Dr. Shakur is 
much more than that. Since he was 14 years old, he has committed his 
life to the liberation struggle of the New Afrikan people, so-called 
African Americans.

In 1969 he defended Republic of New Afrika elders, children and leaders 
against a vicious military attack by Detroit police on the New Bethel 
Baptist Church, where Rev. C.L. Franklin, the father of Aretha Franklin, 
was the pastor.

Dr. Shakur is an accomplished doctor of Chinese medicine and acupuncture 
and the founder of the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North 
America (BAAANA) as well as the Lincoln Detox Center which was 
responsible for curing hundreds of heroin addicts without drugs through 
acupuncture until the center was forced to close after a long struggle 
by the city of New York.

He is a co-founder of the National Task Force for Cointelpro Litigation 
and Research (NTFCLR), which made it possible for Black liberation 
organizations and individuals to identify, coordinate and expose exactly 
how, where and who the FBI had used in its evil plan called the Counter 
Intelligence Program or COINTELPRO to destroy organizations like the 
Black Panther Party, the Us Organization, the Provisional Government of 
the Republic of New Afrika and the American Indian Movement and 
assassinated, imprisoned or exiled so many of our leaders and freedom 
fighters.

The NTFCLR was responsible for the legal strategy that ultimately led to 
the release of Black Panther political prisoner Geronimo ji Jaga 
(Pratt). Additionally, Dr. Shakur travelled extensively to represent his 
people at international conferences and to gain international support 
for our freedom struggle from the international community.


      We demand that the United States Parole Commission immediately
      release Dr. Mutulu Shakur!

Dr. Mutulu Shakur is being illegally detained in federal prison beyond 
his release date because of his past and ongoing contributions to the 
human rights, self-determination and liberation of not only his nation 
New Afrika, but to the freedom and justice for all oppressed peoples.

We demand that the United States Parole Commission immediately release 
Dr. Mutulu Shakur!

The U.S. Parole Commission can be contacted here: United States Parole 
Commission, 90 K Street, N.E., Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20530, 
202-346-7000 <tel:%28202%29%20346-7000>, public.inquiries at usdoj.gov 
<mailto:public.inquiries at usdoj.gov>.

Dr. Mutulu Shakur can be reached here: Mutulu Shakur, 83205012 , United 
States Penitentiary, P.O. Box 3900, Adelanto CA 92301.

Free the land!

/To contact NAPO-MXGM, go to //https://mxgm.org/contact-us///. /

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