“MOVE”
A DOCUMENTARY BY COHORT MEDIA

{This is dedicated to The MOVE 9: Janine Phillips Africa, Merle Austin Africa, Debbie Sims Africa, Janet Holloway Africa, Charles Sims Africa, Edward Goodman Africa, William Phillips Africa, Delbert Orr Africa, and Michael Davis Africa....ON THE MOVE!!!...}
 

“AS LONG AS WE ARE ALIVE, WE WILL NEVER ABANDON OUR INNOCENT BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN JAIL. AND, THEY KNOW WE WILL NEVER ABANDON THEM. AND, THIS CITY WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PROBLEM UNTIL EVERY LAST ONE OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IS HOME...”
-MOVE

The public execution of the Branch Davidians at Waco Texas was not the first such
government led slaughter. Similar state sanctioned torture and murder of MOVE
members in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania began in 1974. This harassment and abuse
culminated on May 13, 1985, in the bombing and torching of 60 homes. This police
attack at 6221 Osage Avenue, in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia,
made the Waco fires pale by comparison.

An entire neighborhood was hatefully transformed into ashes by rabidly racist
police officers in the “City of Brotherly Love”. Cohort Media directors Benjamin
Garry and Ryan McKenna have created a superb documentary that now fully
captures this shockingly violent and fascist moment in American history. You must
see this film!

This documentary is a superb analysis of an event that is omitted from far too many
textbooks and databases. This film traces the history of MOVE and its legacy as the
city of Philadelphia declared war upon its organization and its home. The clever
combination of still photos and live footage graphically reveal the past, present, and
future of MOVE’s rebellion. We view and experience the shock and rage of every
tale shared by a host of MOVE members and journalists. We re-live the execution
of infant Life Africa, whose tiny skull was crushed on March 28, 1976, when a police
officer suddenly stomped and beat his mother, Janine Africa, as she cradled Life in
her arms.

Just as in Waco, police officers executed many children and infants. They also
brutally murdered, beat, stomped, and shot male and female MOVE members, in
broad daylight. Many members were shot in their backs. Legendary journalist
Mumia Abu Jamal was a staunch defender of MOVE. He exposed the brutal
atrocities inflicted by Philadelphia’s sadistic police force as they harassed MOVE
members for years. Mumia’s framing, for the murder of a young cop who was
planning to expose his corrupt peers, was fueled by Mumia’s loyalty to MOVE’s
dreadlocked rebel warriors.

In this superb film, many of the still photos appear as actual rolls of camera film. This brilliant artistic
touch deepens the visual imagery of these literal portraits of a bloody and racist
history. A history that has been sinisterly revised and arrogantly omitted, until now.

This film details the poison of revisionist history as it definitively records the truth
of each legendary and shocking incident between MOVE and the police. It proves
what really happened when one group was callously marked for death and an entire
neighborhood was cavalierly deemed a collective casualty of war. This film
documents what has been hidden from public history.

In this film, we witness the inability of oppressors to ever stop a revolution. MOVE
members are still political prisoners and global rebel heroes. They will never be
defeated because they will never give up their rebel missions.

This film takes us deep into the red hot soul of MOVE’s organization as it
simultaneously reveals the ice cold hearts of Philadelphia’s city officials.
Corruption, oppression, and hatred cross all boundaries of race and class. Power
corrupts absolutely. Absolute power breeds hatred. Wilson Goode was the black
mayor of Philadelphia when officers bombed MOVE.

Had MOVE’s warriors been less Afrikan or less nappy, perhaps a neighborhood
mediation office may have intervened. That may have resolved all municipal and
residential conflicts. Instead, the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb and torched
60 homes. None of the black residents were ever fully compensated for their
financial losses. Many of them owned their homes. This film examines their
eradication.

This film clearly exposes the fact that Philadelphia’s police officers never attempted
any mediation. They came to the scene of this execution openly armed for war. In
addition to the bomb they dropped, officers came armed with 1000 rounds of
ammunition, M-60 machine guns, M-16 sniper rifles, and silencers. Silent guns do
not fire warnings. They only shoot to kill.

The 60 row houses torched reached temperatures of 2000 degrees. Officers shot at
every MOVE member who dared to flee the burning house. During this melee, cops
shot a fellow officer. Then, they brazenly framed 9 MOVE members for that
murder. 8 members of The MOVE 9 are still incarcerated for the death of a police
officer felled by a single bullet. 9 MOVE members were jailed for one bullet from
one gun that shot “friendly fire”. This could only happen in the American “just-us”
system! Tragically, Merle Africa died in prison. 8 members of MOVE are still
incarcerated political prisoners!!!

Even if one MOVE member had shot a police officer, why were 9 members
sentenced to 100 years each??? A dear Rastafarian friend of mine always laments
about “politricks in a wicked shitsym...”. This film proves that wicked politics led
to the systematic harassment, torture, beatings, murder, bombing, and framing of
MOVE members.

In a just legal system, 9 people would never be prosecuted for a crime that no single
one of them has been proven to have committed!!! No just trial can ever be
conducted when no single piece of evidence is submitted!!! There is no justice in
Amerikkka’s elitist and racist “just-us” system. And, where there is no justice, there will never
be any peace.

The very same lying brutal cops who slaughtered and framed MOVE members, and
framed and caged Mumia Abu Jamal, destroyed evidence vital to the cases of the
MOVE 9. Crooked cops even blatantly destroyed the crime scene and  boldly
leveled the MOVE home they torched, even before defense attorneys could gather
any shred of evidence.

This film exposes the contagion of oppression. It is a wake up call to those who
believe in the fantasy of selective oppression. Like those neighbors who thought the
police would burn only one home or abuse only nappy headed residents when they
arrived at the home of MOVE members. Like those who foolishly believe that a
selected president like George W. Bush/King Shrub can contain the terror that he
has brazenly unleased upon international oil owners, poor persons, and
homosexuals globally...

We are living in times when suicidally blind patriotism is being touted as loyalty or
character. Every fool who believes that America  is a democracy must see this film.
It will burn their rose colored glasses into the same kind of ashes that police officers
left at MOVE’s home....

“MOVE WORKS TO STOP INDUSTRY FROM POISONING THE AIR, THE
WATER, THE SOIL, AND PUT AN END TO THE ENSLAVEMENT OF LIFE -
PEOPLE, ANIMALS, ANY FORM OF LIFE. THE PURPOSE OF JOHN
AFRICA’S REVOLUTION IS TO SHOW PEOPLE HOW CORRUPT, ROTTEN,
CRIMINALLY ENSLAVING THIS SYSTEM IS, SHOW PEOPLE, THROUGH
JOHN AFRICA’S TEACHING, THE TRUTH, THAT THIS SYSTEM
IS THE CAUSE OF ALL THEIR PROBLEMS (ALCOHOLISM, DRUG
ADDICTION, UNEMPLOYMENT, WIFE ABUSE, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY,
EVERY PROBLEM IN THE WORLD). AND, TO SET THE EXAMPLE OF
REVOLUTION FOR PEOPLE TO FOLLOW WHEN THEY REALIZE HOW
THEY’VE BEEN OPPRESSED, REPRESSED, DUPED, TRICKED BY THIS
SYSTEM, THIS GOVERNMENT AND SEE THE NEED TO RID THEMSELVES
OF THIS CANCEROUS SYSTEM AS MOVE DOES.”
        -MOVE

Every seeker of truths must see this film. Only the truth will free our collective
minds and souls. See this film today!!!

To contact the rebel directors at Cohort Media, email:
cohortmedia@yahoo.com

Also see their web site at:
 www.movefilm.com

Ona Move
by
Chuck Dees

25 Years on The Move
c/o Post Office Box 19709
Philadelphia, PA 19143

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