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 inhabitation of the un-gender-specific and âfungibleâ also mapped the affective grounds for imagining other qualities of life and being for those marked by and for captivity.
The surge of attention to the Israeli occupation is unimaginable without last yearâs âGeorge Floydâ protests.
The corporate sports media practices a kind of settler state âOrientalism,â blaming black players for the ills of an industry owned by rich white men.
The US claims that it respects the international rule on law, but instead makes up the rules as it goes along, resulting in the death of millions.
