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.
West, considered one of America's foremost intellectuals, said he is confident that it is his criticism of Israel that cost him tenure at Harvard.
This week the blackout in Texas, the recent film on Fred Hampton, and Democracy Nowâs international coverage were on your minds.
We adapt to make life livable, to uplift ourselves, and through us we show our community that we are prepared for the mysteries of what the day will bring.
This book focuses on whether discrimination and violence against Muslim women are sanctioned by the Qurâan, as critics of Islam allege.
Letâs not allow our revolutionary wish-list to keep us from appreciating the ways this film intervenesâwith force and clarityâin our present American political discourse.
