Address envelope to James Harvey

 

Abdul developed the George Jackson University, that at one time had over a million students. “The state” shut it down, of course and he had to rebuild, which he did. A powerful statement of his undaunted spirit and fierce resistance to injustice and illegitimate authority, while enduring the state’s torture program of forcing New Afrikans into security housing units (SHUs), solitary confinement, designed to break their revolutionary mind and spirit.

 

Captured at 16-years-old, Abdul spent the next 44+ years under severely oppressive and repressive conditions, studying, analyzing, developing theories; all which he put into practice to develop his mind, body and spirit and become an educator, an author of multiple educational books and a highly conscious New Afrikan man.

 

Despite expected violence, human rights violations and denial of his freedom by the state and CDCr, he, along with his New Afrikan Brothas, practiced Black August year after year; participated in the Historic California Hunger Strikes, to which they committed to their death, if necessary. Abdul engaged in the class action lawsuit, Ashker v Brown, to end indefinite solitary confinement, demonstrating the ability and need to build unity with outside orgs, activists, etc. to build power and win, and he was the mastermind behind the original concept of the Agreement to End Hostilities – the most important document of the past 50 years. So powerful, CDCr undermined its implementation into California’s prisons, but it couldn’t be stopped – wherever it was, violence decreased significantly.

 

Abdul Olugbala Shakur was told the only way to escape the torture of the SHU was to “parole, snitch or die.” He stood firm against all those dehumanizing options to maintain his humanity, follow in the footsteps of his Ancestors and continue to serve the People.