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.
Cheri Honkala tells Ann Garrison that the Biden campaign headquarters threw up a rent-a-fence when they heard the Poor People’s Army was coming.
A big BOOM— 27,000 tons of ammonium nitrate… chemical compound for agricultural Fertilizer… ‘stored’ 6 years at the port of Beirut 220 dead 5,000 injured
The Big Business-backed Harris earned a reputation as a friend of the police and an agent of racially disparate mass incarceration.
Anti-Blackness and antiradicalism function as the legitimating architecture of modern U.S. racial capitalism.
This week protests in Portland and Racial Capitalism were on your minds.
