new documentary on CIA LSD targeting activists as part of MKULTRA
100 policemen came to the Bronx and arrested us and took us away from the [acupuncture] center.
Dr. Mutulu Shakur
five orange needles sticking out of each ear. A warm, energetic volunteer, named Elizabeth Ropp, welcomed my friend and me, and asked, “Would you like to get acupuncture treatment?” We agreed, and a few seconds later, we were also marked by the orange needles of the distinctive auricular acupoints of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA).
So that stimulates the vagus nerve.
https://www.ofpartandparcel.com/blog-2/an-introduction-the-black-panther-party-and-acupuncture
Dr. Mutulu Shakur (Tupac’s stepfather) introduced acupuncture into the detoxification program as an alternative to methadone. There is also Dr. Tolbert Small on the West Coast, who, after a trip to China with the BPP in 1972, returned home to teach himself the practice and integrated Western and Chinese medicine in his medical practice in the Bay area until his recent retirement at the beginning of 2020. Importantly to note is that Drs. Small and Shakur both started using acupuncture simultaneously but in parallel — they were not connected during the early 1970s!
Yet, these revolutionaries discovered acupuncture through their own channels, with Dr. Shakur learning about the practice prior to Reston’s article and Dr. Small witnessing acupuncture first handedly in China.
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I graduated from Harvard College in 2019 with a degree in the History of Science. My undergraduate thesis was entitled “Maoism in New Hampshire: The Black Panther Party’s Use of Acupuncture.” I am currently pursuing an MPhil degree in Health, Medicine, and Society at the University of Cambridge for 2019 -2020. I will be returning to Harvard University for the MD-PhD program in History of Science in the fall of 2021.
Trailer to In the Hands of the Revolutionaries and Communities: A Social History of Acupuncture
and
Black Revolutionaries and Acupuncture? A History of Integrative Medicine
video
“It’s First Aid!”: Tracing the Global Transmission of a Five-Point Ear Acupuncture Treatment
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lincoln-detox-radical-roots-acupuncture
Dope is Death: Acupuncture in Black Panther Party doc - youtube
https://blackmail4u.com/2021/02/03/acupuncture-activism-dr-mutulu-shakur-the-peoples-drug-program/
Shakur became aware of acupuncture when his son received it after a car accident. Shakur received training and began to practice acupuncture as part of the People’s Drug Program in 1971 along with Walter Bosque and other community volunteers.
The program would eventually be known as the Lincoln Detox Center. The center was located within Lincoln Hospital. At the time, the hospital was the primary source of health care for Black and Latinx residents living in the South Bronx. Many viewed the care provided there as substandard and referred to it as the “butcher shop”. In November 1970, The Young Lords, Black Panther Party, and other activists took over a portion of the hospital. One of their primary demands was that the hospital establish a drug treatment program for the community and run by the community. Initially, it was entirely volunteer-run. Lincoln Detox Center brought the community together in many ways beyond just addiction treatment, providing health care, acupuncture, political education, and other community services. Initially, the program used methadone treatment to support patients through the initial stages of withdrawal, eventually weaning them off. Acupuncture was then used to support patients in later stages of recovery. These programs provided an empowering space for the local community. Many patients also became acupuncture practitioners.
So the EX-addicts were trained to be ACTIVISTS. So the Cointelpro FBI and CIA MKULTRA CHAOS targeted Dr. Mutulu Shakur.
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