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40 Years A Prisoner (2020): Official Trailer        Video        HBO        16 November 2020

 

He will never be free until his family comes home.

From Tommy Oliver, the director of “1982”,

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/
a-siege-a-bomb-48-dogs-and-the-black-commune-that-would-not-surrender

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
a-siege-a-bomb-48-dogs-and-the-black-commune-that-would-not-surrender

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
a-siege-a-bomb-48-dogs-and-the-black-commune-that-would-not-surrender

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
a-siege-a-bomb-48-dogs-and-the-black-commune-that-would-not-surrender

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Move Nine

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/dec/07/
40-years-a-prisoner-tommy-oliver-move-nine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
move-9-black-radicals-women-freed-philadelphia

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/25/
move-9-black-radicals-women-freed-philadelphia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
move-1985-bombing-reconciliation-philadelphia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
move-1985-bombing-reconciliation-philadelphia

 

 

 

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/
police-bombing-move-compound-philadelphia-1985-video

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/10/
move-1985-bombing-reconciliation-philadelphia

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/jul/29/
police-bombing-move-compound-philadelphia-1985-video

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
a-siege-a-bomb-48-dogs-and-the-black-commune-that-would-not-surrender

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/31/
a-siege-a-bomb-48-dogs-and-the-black-commune-that-would-not-surrender

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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