Shango Abiola
GJU Chief Correspondent
I was born in
Oakland, CA and raised in numerous cities throughout the Bay Area by a single
mother who made Black Pride a mandatory guiding principle in my life. I often tell people my political
education began when I was about 4 years old and my mother taught me to read my
first book “Follow the Drinking Gourd: Harriet Tubman and the Underground
Railroad”.
I first became active
organizing in 2007 as a member of the (CCBPP) Commemoration Committee For The
Black Panther Party. We were
working on the Lil Bobby Hutton Literacy Campaign and “The Commemorator”
Newspaper. Since then, I have been
involved community organizing with many different organizations all over the
united snakkkes and Afrika as well as Brazil.
I am currently a volunteer at the “Qilombo” an Afrikan and
Indigenous led radical Social Center in West Oakland, CA. I am also currently a member of “the
Bay Area Solidarity Committee For Jalil Muntaqim” a committee of activist
dedicated to supporting and working to free former Black Panther Party and
Black Liberation Army member Jalil Muntaqim, who has been in prison since
August 28th, 1971, the day of Comrade General George Jackson
Funeral.
I am involved in George
Jackson University because I believe like Minister of Defense of the Black
Panther Party Huey Newton said that “George (Jackson), was the best writer of
us all.” The example he set has
been one of the most influential inspirations to my closest comrades and
me. The way I see it the prison industrial
complex represents the most blatant and sinister example of our people’s
oppression today. I am committed
to doing all that I can to make prisons, kkkapitalism and white supremacy a
thing of the past. Dare to
Struggle Dare to Win!!! 
