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.
If the NBA really wants to be a game changer, why not expand "Black Lives Matter" to "Black Homes Matterâ?
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Uniformed thugs calling themselves Vikings, Regulators and Banditos prey on the cityâs Black and brown civilians, and even brutalize their fellow cops.
Theorists of racial capitalism are not interested in the characteristics capitalism could have had in some imagined world, but in the world as it exists.
This week the New Cold War and political prisoners were on your mind.
