A WEEK ON...THE MOVE 9

Following the shooting death of Philadelphia Police Officer James Ramp during the August 8, 1978 police siege on Move's headquarters in West Philadelphia, MOVE members Janine, Debbie, Janet, Merle, Delbert, Mike, Phil, Eddie, and Chuck Africa were convicted of 3rd degree murder, conspiracy, and multiple counts of attempted murder and aggravated assault. Each was given a sentence of 30-100 years. MOVE and others have contested both the evidence and the fairness of the MOVE 9 trial.

The MOVE organization has planned a week long schedule of events to educate and organize the community about the MOVE 9 case:

Monday (5/7) , Demonstration to Free the MOVE 9

- 5:00pm, 52nd and Market.

Tuesday (5/8), "MOVE- a Documentary" film with Panel Discussion

- 7:00pm at Calvary Church (801 S. 48th St.) - with Professor Linn Washington, Theresa Shoatz (Human Rights Coalition), & Betsey Piette (International Action Center).

Wednesday (5/9), Write-In to the Parole Board and Judicial Committee

for the release of the MOVE 9 - 6:00pm, A-Space (4722 Baltimore Avenue).

Thursday (5/10), Film Screening of "MOVE: A Confrontation" -

6pm, African American Museum (701 Arch St.), with a panel discussion on "Who are the MOVE 9?" featuring Pam Africa (Chairwoman of ICFFMAJ), Dr. Anthony Montiero (Temple University), MOVE Supporters Maiga Milbourne & Abdul John.

Friday (5/11), Teach-in on Frank Rizzo and Police Brutality

- 7:00pm, Black and Nobel (1409 W. Erie Ave) - with Attorney and Activist Michael Coard.

Saturday (5/12), Organizers Meeting to Strategize

- 12-3pm, Abiding Truth Ministries (846 S. 57th Street) - Educate, Organize, Agitate to liberate the MOVE 9, facilitator:  Ramona Africa.  

For more information, please contact

onamovellja@aol.com or the MOVE9parole.blogpot.com

Mumia Abu-Jamal - Still at War With MOVE: Parole "Hearings".

Still at War With MOVE: Parole "Hearings"


[col. writ. 4/22/12 ©'12 Mumia Abu-Jamal


For members of the MOVE Organization, especially those who survived the August 8th, 1978 police attack on their home in Powelton Village in West Philadelphia, the system is always at war with them.


In August of '78, that war was waged with hundreds, indeed thousands, of bullets, fired into a home with men, women and children. It was waged with water cannons, which flooded their home-- almost drowning them.


It was waged with the weapons of law, with biased judges and ambitious DAs, and with unprecedented and unjust prison sentences; of 30 to 100 years.


Today it is being waged by parole agencies, who are government officials using rubber stamps to go through the motions of parole hearings; 'hearings' where no one hears.


Under the usual protocols, if a prisoner has no major misconducts for several years prior to his/her minimum sentence, they are presumed to have earned parole. Indeed, some prisoners get what's called pre-release, or a release to a community correctional facility (or halfway house), pending the passage of their minimum, and then parole.


I said. 'usual'. But, when it comes to MOVE, there is no usual.


New protocols, new procedures, new regulations are placed on the table; new ways of saying 'no. '


Because they're MOVE. Because of their beliefs.


Today, the 8 surviving MOVE members have spent almost 34 years In prison--4 years over their minimum.


The women are honor prisoners. and have been recommended by the prison staff for parole.


They've been denied several times.


Similarly, if the men weren't MOVE members, they'd have been gone years ago. It's high time that this long war came to an end.


Thirty-four years for a bogus, trumped-up third-degree murder is 34 years too much. Contact the MOVE Organization on the web at:
http://move9parole.blogspot.com

Let's bring our brothers and sistas home where they belong!


--© '12 majMumia Abu-Jamal - Still at War With MOVE: Parole "Hearings".



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