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August 8--Again
by
Mumia Abu-Jamal | 08.14.2007
What the city failed to do with fire and water, it would try to do with words --the words of the corporate media, merged with the words of the law, to convict 9 MOVE members of the high crimes of essentially being MOVE members -- being members of a predominantly Black group of rebels and nonconformists. For, in today's corporate state, being a revolutionary is crime enough! August 8th -- Again [col. writ. 8/8/07] For those of us who know them, it is almost inconceivable that MOVE members are still in the state's dungeons today -- 29 years later. For the events of Aug. 8th, 1978 couldn't be clearer; for it was on that date that the state launched a mass armed assault on MOVE's home and headquarters in West Philadelphia, when the state brought its urban war to Powelton Avenue in an attempt to destroy the MOVE Organization. They shot hundreds of bullets into the house; fully automatic weapons fire in the heart of the city; when that failed, they launched water cannons, flooding the home full of men, women, and babies. Fire and water, utilized as weapons of war and death; but MOVE men and women (and children) would emerge alive -- and that was their only crime that day -- of survival! What the city failed to do with fire and water, it would try to do with words --the words of the corporate media, merged with the words of the law, to convict 9 MOVE members of the high crimes of essentially being MOVE members -- being members of a predominantly Black group of rebels and nonconformists. For, in today's corporate state, being a revolutionary is crime enough! MOVE folks, followers of the naturalist teachings of John Africa, were sentenced to 30 to 100 years -- sentences not even provided by statute! -- and it's been 29 years in Pa. hellholes for what's known as the MOVE 9. Twenty-nine years -- in hell. When MOVE folks were on the street, their inspiration reduced crime, for young minds were engaged in life-affirming ideas, not naked materialism. Being naturalists, the pursuit of money wasn't important to MOVE people -- what was important was Life. For 3 decades the city has been without them, and it has fallen steadily, into the abyss. August 8th -- remembered. --(c) '07 maj [Mr. Jamal's recent book features a chapter on the MUMIA'S COLUMNS NEED TO BE PUBLISHED AS BROADLY The campaign to kill Mumia is in full swing and we need you to Keep updated by reading ACTION ALERTS!! To download Mp3's of Mumia's commentaries visit The Power of Truth is Final -- Free Mumia! PLEASE CONTACT: Send our brotha some LOVE and LIGHT at: WE WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM CAN *NOT* REST!! Submitted by: Sis. Marpessa Subscribe: mumiacolumns-subscribe@topica.com |
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