Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and Community Aid and Development (CAD) in unity with SOS Productions presents:

FEATURING: Wise Intelligent of PRT … M1 of Dead Prez … Queen Sheba … Ishmail I … Zayd Malik … Uno the Prophet …Tahir RBG … Ras Kofi … DJ Yahquan

Unitea Cafe: 640 Evans Street SW, Atlanta

MUTULU SHAKUR BENEFIT CONCERT
Saturday, December 10th, 2-5PM
Hot and Cool Cafe, 4331 Degnan Ave. (in Leimert Park, Los Angeles)

$20 donation – proceeds go to Dr. Shakur’s release fund

After over 30 years in prison, the father of Tupac Shakur, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, is finally being released from prison! 

He was granted parole and is now in need of resources to prepare for his arrival.  

Featuring: Ghais Guevara, Ricki Monique and F.A.B.L.E.

The Empty Bottle: 1035 N. Western Ave., Chicago

Family and Friends of Mutulu Shakur is please to announce the premiere of this feature-length documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Mia Donovan.

‘Dope is Death’ has three showings at the True/False Film Fest:

Friday, March 6 – 11:30am at the Big Ragtag theatre

Saturday, March 7 – 12:45pm at the Showtime theatre at Blue Note                                  7:30pm at the Willy Wilson theatre at Ragtag

Passes to the film fest can be purchased at truefalse.org/attend/passes/.

For information on future showings stay tuned to eyesteelfilm.com/.

We are pleased to announce the first Philadelphia-based Healing & Justice benefit event: a day of rejuvenation and inspiration in honor of Dr. Mutulu Shakur!

Saturday, December 7th  –  1-6pm

Six Fishes Neighborhood Acupuncture  –  2308 Grays Ferry Ave

Book an appointment for acupuncture, massage or an herbal consultation for yourself or as a gift for someone who deserves it. Through his revolutionary work with Lincoln Detox, Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America and the Harlem Institute of Acupuncture, Dr. Shakur utilized acupuncture to not only heal but also empower. In honor of this legacy, licensed acupuncturists, massage therapists and herbalists will come together at Six Fishes Neighborhood Acupuncture to provide care for sliding scale donations of $25- $50 (cash preferred).

This event is hosted by Philly ABC and donations support Dr. Shakur’s legal defense, commissary essentials, and projects promoting justice for the Black community. In solidarity with long-term political prisoner from Philadelphia who is battling cancer, Russell Maroon Shoatz, a portion of proceeds from the event will go to his support fund.

Since space is limited, use the form below to schedule an appointment:

Thank you for supporting this fundraiser for Dr. Mutulu Shakur by requesting an appointment, and we will contact you as soon as possible to confirm your appointment! Acupuncture is provided by Vito Leva (Acupuncture off Broad) and Margie Navarro (Vivacity Acupuncture), bodywork by Lore Elizabeth, massage by Dro and herbal consultations and onsite remedies by Feonix Rose and Kenton Cobb.

As of December 6th, we are no longer taking appointments for this event but walk-ins are welcome on a first come basis!

Curated by Maureen Kelleher

October 5th – November 22nd, 2019
Opening Reception – October 5th 7-10pm
Gallery Aferro

73 Market Street, Newark, NJ

Wednesday – Saturday 12-6pm and by appointment

Participating Artists:

Etienne
Maureen Kelleher
Kenya
Ramsey Orta
Dr. Mutulu Shakur
Sharif
Teresa
Zulu

An exhibition can act as an undeniable clarion call to the world and all who wish to see it transformed for the better. The Social Justice Collaboration Quilts Project featuring the Quilts of Angola Prison is such an exhibition. A loving, compelling collaboration of creativity, the exhibit features the work of free persons and lifers of the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola Prison.

Artist and private investigator Maureen Kelleher has curated an ongoing collaboration between individuals incarcerated  at Louisiana State Penitentiary and elsewhere, alongside free civilians, utilizes handmade quilts, musical accompaniment, and experiential narratives to connect two worlds.

Kelleher’s skills have been instrumental in helping exonerate 3 men off Louisiana’s death row, in addition to assisting the renowned justice reform organization, The Innocence Project, on a non-DNA case to aid in the release of an innocent man with a life sentence. She has crafted a showcase that includes music from artists such as Irma Thomas, Delfeayo Marsalis, Cat Power, and the Venerable Robina Courtin, with endorsements from Harriet Tubman scholar Dr. Kate Clifford-Larson and others. The original fabric art created by the hands of inspiring artists, including members of the Louisiana State Penitentiary Hospice Program; Dr. Mutulu Shakur, the stepfather of Tupac Shakur; and Ramsey Orta, the man who recorded the death of Eric Garner, will grace Aferro’s Main Gallery, creating an immersive environment for affirming our collective humanity.

The October 23rd screening of the film ‘The People’s Detox’ was such a success that they have added four showings in November:

THE PEOPLE’S DETOX
Dir. Jenna Bliss, 2018
NYC. 56 mins.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5 – 7:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 – 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 – 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27 – 7:30 PM

ONLINE TIX
FB EVENT

**PRESENTATION FROM NYC DSA OOPP (OPIOID OVERDOSE PREVENTION PROGRAM) AFTER ALL SCREENINGS. A PORTION OF TICKET SALES GOES TO SUPPORT THEIR WORK, AND A PORTION TO MUTULU SHAKUR’S NEW LAWSUIT AGAINST THE BUREAU OF PRISONS AND THE PAROLE BOARD.**

THE PEOPLE’S DETOX is a contemplative look at how the history of a revolutionary drug clinic reverberates through to contemporary notions of health and care. In November 1970, Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx was taken over through the collective organizing of local heroin addicts, revolutionary health organizations, the Young Lords, members of the Black Panther Party as well as other organizations. Through political education, the clinic examined the role of global politics in the influx of heroin into urban centers as well as the economic incentives of the established protocols for drug treatment. With the introduction of acupuncture as an aid in detoxification, eventually replacing pharmaceutical treatments, it was not only the the walls of the hospital that were breached but the very apparatus of addiction and recovery.

JENNA BLISS (b. 1984 Yonkers, NY) is an artist and filmmaker. Previous films include POISON THE CURE (2017) and two video series, DAY ONE (2017) and LETTERS (2013).

NYC DSA OOPP (THE NYC DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OPIOID OVERDOSE PREVENTION PROGRAM) dispenses naloxone to people and communities who experience high risk of overdose. We seek to work on the front lines of the overdose crisis, and to educate people who use drugs as well as the general public about the structural nature of addiction. Overdose reversal is an immediate emergency measure, but we recognize that the problem is structural, and requires structural solutions. Along with harm-reducing measures like needle exchanges and safe injection facilities, we demand healthcare without a profit motive, patient involvement in their own care, as well as decriminalization, total decarceration, safe housing, education, and healthy food as fundamental rights, and an end to segregation, deprivation, and dispossession, to poverty and the wage system. We recognize that capitalism itself is the fundamental cause, the vector of disease. The same brutal system that requires and feeds on extraction, marginalization, racialization, and oppression to uplift a wealthy few creates the conditions for disease among the people. capitalism is the disease vector–socialism is the means for the cure.

Family and Friends of Mutulu Shakur is happy to announce an upcoming showing of a film documenting the inspiring history of Lincoln Detox, one of the community-based acupuncture programs that Dr. Shakur co-founded.

THE PEOPLE’S DETOX
Dir. Jenna Bliss, 2018
NYC. 56 mins.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 – 7:30 PM at Spectacle Theatre
124 S. 3rd Street, Williamsburg Brooklyn

ONE NIGHT ONLY! FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
This event is $10.

ONLINE TICKETS HERE

THE PEOPLE’S DETOX is a contemplative look at how the history of a revolutionary drug clinic reverberates through to contemporary notions of health and care. In November 1970, Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx was taken over through the collective organizing of local heroin addicts, revolutionary health organizations, the Young Lords, members of the Black Panther Party as well as other organizations. Through political education, the clinic examined the role of global politics in the influx of heroin into urban centers as well as the economic incentives of the established protocols for drug treatment. With the introduction of acupuncture as an aid in detoxification, eventually replacing pharmaceutical treatments, it was not only the the walls of the hospital that were breached but the very apparatus of addiction and recovery.

JENNA BLISS (b. 1984 Yonkers, NY) is an artist and filmmaker. Previous films include POISON THE CURE (2017) and two video series, DAY ONE (2017) and LETTERS (2013).