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 “lived a life of peace that was unthinkable in Philadelphia,” because “they lived out of the eye of a merciless media,” he said. “Absent the ‘zone of negativity by the media, people met MOVE as people, and loved them.” 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.
Organizers vow to continue the fight for housing on the heels of these tremendous victories.
France has the largest foreign armed force in Africa, with more soldiers on the continent than the US Africa Command.
These neo-colonial regimes are covertly and overtly facilitating the US Empire’s encirclement of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
More than a decade of blatant lies and slander have promoted the false belief that Julian Assange is guilty of some criminal offense.
Police “Reform” = Counterinsurgency
