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History > USA > Civil rights > Black Power > 1960s-1980s
Move
40 Years A Prisoner HBO 2020
40 Years A Prisoner (2020): Official Trailer Video HBO 16 November 2020
He will never be
free until his family comes home. with original music by The Roots, 40 Years A Prisoner ollows the story of a son who commits his life to fighting for the release of his parents, two members of the Philadelphia Black radical group MOVE, imprisoned after a controversial confrontation with police. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr9SPaqjrxU
The arrest of Delbert Africa of Move on 8 August 1978.
Photograph: Jim G Domke Philadelphia Inquirer
A siege. A bomb. 48 dogs. And the black commune that would not surrender
Forty years ago, Philadelphia erupted in one of the most dramatic shoot-outs of the black liberation struggle.
Ed Pilkington tells the surreal story of the Move 9 – and what happened to them next G Tue 31 Jul 2018 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/31/
Move members hold sawed-off shotguns and automatic weapons as they stand in front of their barricaded headquarters.
Photograph: AP
Forty years ago, Philadelphia erupted in one of the most dramatic shoot-outs of the black liberation struggle.
Ed Pilkington tells the surreal story of the Move 9 – and what happened to them next G Tue 31 Jul 2018 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/31/
Members of Move gather in front of their house. They were arrested 40 years ago during a police siege.
Photograph: Leif Skoogfors Corbis via Getty Images
Forty years ago, Philadelphia erupted in one of the most dramatic shoot-outs of the black liberation struggle.
Ed Pilkington tells the surreal story of the Move 9 – and what happened to them next G Tue 31 Jul 2018 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/31/
Janine Africa preaching to the crowd in front of the barricaded Move house in the Powelton Village section of Philadelphia.
Photograph: Leif Skoogfors Corbis via Getty Images
Forty years ago, Philadelphia erupted in one of the most dramatic shoot-outs of the black liberation struggle.
Ed Pilkington tells the surreal story of the Move 9 – and what happened to them next G Tue 31 Jul 2018 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/31/
Move Nine
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/dec/07/
May 2019
Move 9 women freed after 40 years in jail over Philadelphia police siege
For 40 years, Janine Phillips Africa had a technique for coping with being cooped up in a prison cell for a crime she says she did not commit.
She would avoid birthdays, Christmas, New Year and any other events that emphasized time passing while she was not free.
“The years are not my focus,” she wrote in a letter to the Guardian.
“I keep my mind on my health and the things I need to do day by day.”
On Saturday she could finally begin accepting the passage of time.
She and her cellmate and sister in the black liberation struggle, Janet Holloway Africa, were released from SCI Cambridge Springs in Pennsylvania, after a long struggle for parole.
The release of Janine, 63, and Janet, 68, marks a key moment in the history of the Move 9, the group of African American black power and environmental campaigners who were imprisoned after a police siege of their home in August 1978.
The pair were the last of four women in the group either to be paroled or to die behind bars.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/25/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/25/
Philadelphia police bomb Move compound 13 May 1985
A view of Osage Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, following the police’s bombing of Move.
Photograph: Bettmann Archive
The day police bombed a city street: can scars of 1985 Move atrocity be healed? Eleven people, including five children, died and a Philadelphia neighborhood burned down in the airstrike against a black liberation group. Now an effort at reconciliation is under way G Sun 10 May 2020 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/10/
Workers searching through the rubble in West Philadelphia on May 15, 1985, two days after a police helicopter dropped an improvised bomb onto a rowhouse, leaving 11 people dead.
Photograph: George Widman Associated Press
35 Years After MOVE Bombing That Killed 11, Philadelphia Apologizes A police helicopter dropped an explosive charge onto the roof of a rowhouse during an armed standoff in 1985. The resultant fire destroyed 61 homes in a West Philadelphia neighborhood. NYT Nov. 13, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/
Eleven people, including five children, died and a Philadelphia neighborhood burned down in the airstrike against a black liberation group.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/10/
On 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police bombed the Move compound, killing 11 people, including five children, and destroying an entire neighborhood.
The countercultural group lived communally and had a history of violent encounters with police.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/jul/29/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/
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https://www.npr.org/2021/04/23/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/10/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/25/
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https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/04/
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https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/14/
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/19/
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/21/
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/12/
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Katricia Dotson
Several families of the victims, including the Dotsons, joined forces to hire their own expert, the forensic pathologist Michael Baden, who performed autopsies alongside the commission’s team and offered his own independent analysis.
Baden recalled a distinct lack of sympathy for the MOVE victims among the city workers.
“There was a feeling there that they got what they deserved,” he told me.
The commission’s consultants testified in a televised hearing on Nov. 5, 1985. Hameli, Kerley and Levine had determined that there were 11 victims.
Body B-1 and Body G — the remains Mann couldn’t match to the known victims — were 14-year-old Katricia and her 12-year-old friend Delisha.
In Kerley’s opinion, B-1’s growth plates were still fusing.
Hameli noted something else: the appearance of a metal fragment consistent with .00 buckshot in Delisha’s elbow.
Her remains were too damaged for him to determine if she had been shot. (Both the Philadelphia police and MOVE fired shotguns that day.)
Michael Baden concurred with the group’s findings.
(...)
Over the next two years, two grand juries declined to indict anyone for the deaths of 11 people and the razing of a vibrant Black neighborhood.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/
8 August 1978
Move - Powelton Village section of Philadelphia
Philadelphia erupts in one of the most dramatic shoot-outs of the black liberation struggle
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/31/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/31/
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