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.
The Black Is Back Coalitionâs upcoming national conference, August 15 and 16, will highlight the demand for freedom for all political prisoners, said Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela
The Covid-19-sparkd global economic depression is âa singular event in the history of world capitalism,â said Duboisian scholar Anthony Monteiro.
Most American leftists are incoherent on the term fascism, and Democrats have utterly destroyed the wordâs meaning.
Donald Trumpâs attacks on Venezuela, Syria and Iran are criminal, but Joe Biden vows to be even worse.
Ajamu Baraka and Margaret Kimberley join with the No to the New Cold War coalition to demand Donald Trump back off his confrontational stance with China.
