The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders contains a wealth of names, dates and events detailing the use of COINTELPRO style tactics by the FBI against a generation of leftist political leaders and leftist musicians. Based on 12 years of research and includes over 1,000 endnotes. Sources include over 100 interviews, FOIA-released CIA and FBI documents, court transcripts, and many mainstream media outlets. Book is 192 pages of main text, 100 pages of endnotes, 8 pages of photos (incl. government/court documents) and some more pages of preface, foreword, afterword, and bios.
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Book author John Potash did his graduate studies at Columbia University where he concentrated in community organizing. He was founding publisher/editor of Social Justice Action Quarterly a national social work school newspaper that lasted four years and won four honors in the Campus Alternative Journalism Awards. He also received a certification in acupuncture drug treatment at Mutulu Shakur s former clinic, Lincoln Detox, in the Bronx. While mostly working as an addictions counselor, he has published articles (Z, Covert Action, Baltimore Chronicle), poems and short stories. Foreward Author: Pam Africa is Minister of Confrontation for the MOVE Organization. She is also the Co-Coordinator of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal. She has further been featured on national television and radio programs. Foreword Contributor: Mumia Abu-Jamal (pictured on cover and discussed in Chapter 17) was a founding Minister of Information for the Philadelphia Black Panther Party. He then worked as a radio journalist for National Public Radio, winning the Peabody Award for outstanding journalism. He further published articles in prestigious media such as the Yale Law Journal, consistently covering leftist activist issues. After the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists elected Mumia their chair, he was shot in 1981. Mumia has written several essays a week which have been recorded and broadcasted on radio stations around the country by prisonradio.org. Afterword Author: Fred Hampton, Jr. (pictured on cover and discussed in Chapter 13) is the son of Fred Hampton, Sr., the famed Illinois Black Panther Party leader who was next in line to be on the Central Committee and as a national Panther spokesman. In 1990, Hampton became the president of the International People s Democratic Uhuru Movement. He is currently chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC). Hampton has been featured in the documentary Dave Chappelle s Block Party.
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19 of 24 people found the following review helpful
By Nush Mandel
Format:Paperback
In this small book is the radical idea that our federal government has from the 1960's on conducted a dangerous and deadly mission against Tupac Shakur and many other minority leaders. Author John Potash divides the book into 190 pages of discursive argument and nearly 100 pages with 900 references to support all his work. This may be because if his thesis is currect or government has committed deadly crimes against the public that are prosecutorial. Tupac Shakur, one of the early rappers, was gunned down at the age of twenty-five after at least 5 attempts at his young life.
John Potash after two decades of revolutionary research comes up with an FBI organization called COINTELPRO involving several state local,and of course Federal Government police state officials who are named and interviewed in the deaths of Bobby Seale, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert F. Kennedy, Fred Hampton and many more minority activists. In the 1970's, the so-called "Gansta Rappers", were chased down one by one and attacked, killed or imprisioned by the federal agents of COINTELPRO.
By the end of this small book you are numb to the atrocities of the government and that they "Got Away With Murder". You would think that George W. Bush, who is included in this book, was just following older precedents of spying and torture that already has existed for forty years. John Potash names the men who he thinks killed Tupac Shakur and arrested many of his family. Remember that he includes so many interviews, Freedom of Information, FBI, CIA and other information agencies files, scholarly and underground articles, many publications. I can only conclude that I'm surprised nothing has been printed in the newspapers of his controversial thesis, and no real action has come about. Maybe our new President Barack Obama will try
to bring all these people to justice.
John Potash after two decades of revolutionary research comes up with an FBI organization called COINTELPRO involving several state local,and of course Federal Government police state officials who are named and interviewed in the deaths of Bobby Seale, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert F. Kennedy, Fred Hampton and many more minority activists. In the 1970's, the so-called "Gansta Rappers", were chased down one by one and attacked, killed or imprisioned by the federal agents of COINTELPRO.
By the end of this small book you are numb to the atrocities of the government and that they "Got Away With Murder". You would think that George W. Bush, who is included in this book, was just following older precedents of spying and torture that already has existed for forty years. John Potash names the men who he thinks killed Tupac Shakur and arrested many of his family. Remember that he includes so many interviews, Freedom of Information, FBI, CIA and other information agencies files, scholarly and underground articles, many publications. I can only conclude that I'm surprised nothing has been printed in the newspapers of his controversial thesis, and no real action has come about. Maybe our new President Barack Obama will try
to bring all these people to justice.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By F. J. Cooper
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This shows how the FBI can infiltrate almost any organization. From MLK,Malcolm X,The Black Panthers and Tupac Shakur. Most everyday Americans have no clue what the government does to people of color to keep them down. Buy this book now! I highly salute Mr. Potash for this wonderful book. You will never look at things the same again.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By writingmomma
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This is an awesome and clear account of what "is" taking place in the black community. I have always suspected this, but this book brings names and places to light.
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Good book
There was more to the killing of Tupac than meets the eye. Other books have just brushed the surface but this book went deeper uncovering sinister motives how FBI had been tracking... Read more
Published 2 months ago by vizer
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A Conspiracy theorist's dream
This book is packed with tons of information about various conspiracy theories that have taken place where the targets were African American celebrities and public figures. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Wposton723
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Behold A Pale Horse
Enjoyed, I compare this book to Behold A Pale Horse by William Cooper. Informative and makes your mind wonder about history, present and the future.
Published 8 months ago by hadjiione
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THIS SHIT SUCKS!!!0
Please do not waste your time on this film or money. I wasted 2 hours of my life and $15. I love Pac and this just sucks fans in to get a buck.
Published 10 months ago by JW
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The Truth
I picked it up....couldn't sit it down. Whenever I did, my wife picked it up. Had to take it back from her in order to keep reading....enough said, you know what to do now.
Published 23 months ago by The Shadow
5.0 out of 5 stars
TUPAC FANS>>>BUY THIS BOOK
This is a great book that outlines how the CIA, FBI and the BOSS unit of the LAPD, always aimed to kill tupac and his influencial Black Panther Mother, step father and other... Read more
Published on April 8, 2011 by Critically Minded
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Great Book
Bought this book for my husband. He loved it and recommends it to anyone who is interested in the black era of the 60's and 70's
Published on January 13, 2011 by Denise Ruth
1.0 out of 5 stars
Logical people won't be able to take this book serious
People should listen to the debate I had with this author on YouTube...
Here is the book summed up in a single paragraph. Read more
Here is the book summed up in a single paragraph. Read more
Published on December 30, 2010 by Anton Batey
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Inside info
This book is either all the way wrong or all the way right! this information is crazy and it just let's you know there is more than meets the eye and the government has their hands... Read more
Published on December 9, 2010 by hj
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