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.
âWe have to do more than just create a new party,â said Nick Brana, national coordinator for the Movement for a Peoples Party (MPP).
Most of the Congressional Black Caucus are âopportunistsâ who have âjoined the neoliberals to derail any real attempt at challenging the devastating power of the police,â said Clarence
The Black movement will be asphyxiated by the ubiquitous fingers of the Democratic Party if it does not build independent nexuses of peopleâs power.
Cutting police budgets without establishing public control over their behavior doesnât solve the problem, and invites politicians to shuffle budget numbers around like a three-card monte swind
Libertarianism, like all capitalist ideologies, is bound with white supremacy.
