Prisoners and Families of New Orleans needs your help immediately! If you haven't heard already Hurricane Gustav is headed for New Orleans and is predicted to be a category 3 hurricane, the same as Hurricane Katrina. There will possibly be a mandate for all people (outside of prisons and jails) of New Orleans to evacuate starting tomorrow August 29th, the three year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

I deeply regret being in prison. I deeply regret losing family members while in here. I deeply regret all the wonderful things in life that I have missed, but I will never regret standing up for my people for as long as I can draw my breath. My heart is with them always, and my heart is with you today.

Three major confrontations between MOVE or MOVE sympathizers and the city police involved fatalities: the city's shootout with MOVE members in the Powelton compound Aug. 8, 1978, which resulted in the death of police officer James Ramp; the encounter Dec. 9, 1981 involving Mumia Abu-Jamal and police officer Daniel Faulkner, which left Abu-Jamal wounded and Faulkner dead; and the infamous bombing of MOVE's Osage Avenue house May 13, 1985, which left 11 MOVE members dead, among them Africa.

Two leading members of the Philadelphia-based MOVE organization, Pam Africa and Ramona Africa, spoke at a public meeting in Detroit on Aug. 2 on the continuing efforts to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and the MOVE 9.