The nationās 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 ālived a life of peace that was unthinkable in Philadelphia,ā because āthey lived out of the eye of a merciless media,ā he said. āAbsent the āzone 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.
Few records survive of the birth of a national anti-police repression organization formed by supporters of Angela Davis ā but government spies preserved Davisā speech.
Covid-19 is a convenient excuse for governments to ban or restrict activities they donāt like.
It was the Latino Voteā¦ No, it was the Latinix vote! No, it was Black Women! No, it was LGBTQ+ Black Women! No, it was Red State Soccer Moms!
Hampton's body was dragged from the bloodstained bed to the hallway floor, to be displayed as the raiders' trophy āHe's good and dead now."
Anti-communists used the full powers of the state to silence, imprison, or deport radical Black activists.
