The nationâs best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, marked the 45th anniversary of the MOVE organization with recollections of when MOVE members were undergound in Rochester, New York. There, they âlived a life of peace that was unthinkable in Philadelphia,â because âthey lived out of the eye of a merciless media,â he said. âAbsent the âzone of negativity by the media, people met MOVE as people, and loved them.â In contrast, police and media hostility to MOVE in the City of Brotherly Love led to life sentences for nine MOVE members in 1978, and the bombing of the MOVE residence in 1985, killing eleven members, including five children.
Fifteen grueling months of bombing and military assault have finally come to a pause as the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel has come into effect.
Though party leadership called it inhumane, 48 democratic members of Congress voted for the bill to deport immigrants accused, not convicted, of petty theft.
Trump begins his term delivering on promises, but compromised and colluding democrats have ready excuses for betraying their voters.
The late Stuart Hall cautions us to be wary of turning to historical precedent without understanding the specific conjunctures of power that characterize the rise of the right.
Rwandan colonization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) proceeds apace.
