Walter Bosque |
PlEASE NOTE: This is not a bio for a practitioner at Kingston Acupuncture. If you have reached this page via search engine, this is a blog post about Walter Bosque that is part of a series on acupuncturists in the Civil Rights movement. He does not work at this clinic.
Walter Bosque is a Puerto Rican activist who was part of the coalition of Black, Latiné, and Jewish activists that organized the takeover of Lincoln Hospital in 1970. He was also one of the first US citizens to graduate from the Quebec Association of Acupuncture alongside Mutulu Shakur.
Sharing the same disillusionment as his fellow activist about the devastating side effects of heroin and methadone in his community, he helped create the Lincoln Detox Center with Mutulu Shakur.
For 45 years he has been offering acupuncture to marginalized communities in New York City and Puerto Rico after the Lincoln Detox Center was systematically dismantled by federal and state authorities.
The Mott Haven Oral History project
How Acupuncture Became a Radical Remedy in the Bronx