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Mumia Remembers MOVE, Back in the Day
10 May 2017
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The nation’s 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 ā€œlived a life of peace that was unthinkable in Philadelphia,ā€ because ā€œthey lived out of the eye of a merciless media,ā€ he said. ā€œAbsent the ā€˜zone of negativity by the media, people met MOVE as people, and loved them.ā€ 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.


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