While the United States government has paid a punitive $$ for th eMOVE family and their neighours, Pam Afrika-MOVE's minister of confrontation, and a member of the Friends and Family of Mumia Abu Jamal says no money will ever compensate them for their losses, and th einjustices still perpetrated on the rest of their family with 8 still in prison, accused of a murder they did not commit... 'Justice will prevail, if we are consistant in our struggles., she adds.

Ryme Katkhouda of WPFW 89.3FM , Pacifica in Washington DC
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Why May 13th Is So Important - by Mumia Abu-Jamal/ On the MOVE Newsletter

For MOVE people, the date May 13th, 1985, is, to quote a phrase, 'a day that shall live in infamy.'

That's not just because of the horrific act of State Terrorism that the date marks, or even the massacre of 11 MOVE people.

It marks, once again, an instance of state injustice, for what made May 13th a date of remembrance is the brutal imprisonment of the MOVE 9, who, despite their innocence, were convicted of murder, and sentenced to upwards of 100 years in Pennsylvania dungeons.

If the MOVE 9 were treated fairly, and not unjustly railroaded to prison for a crime they did not commit, there would have been no May 13th; for there would not have been the need for it.

What you instead have, is an injustice piled upon another injustice; an injustice leavened by a massacre.

May 13th marked a political betrayal, which was the result of police criminality.

To this date was wedded additional injustice, for the very State that saw nothing wrong with the premeditated Massacre of 11 men, women and babies; saw fit to charge the sole adult survivor with a slew of crimes when her only crime was survival. Ramona Africa was thrown into the womens hell-hole of Muncy Prison, for 7 years, for not dying when the State tried to murder her, by bombing the house in which she lived.

For May 13th, 1985 points to the MOVE 9: not just a name, but real people; good, and sensitive people, who continue to languish in the grips of the State, 27 years later. They are: Phil and Janine Africa; Mike and Debbie Africa; Chuck Africa; Eddie Africa; Janet Africa; Delbert Africa; and the late, great Merle Africa. Parent, now grandparents, rebels and revolutionaries; disciples of the Teaching of JOHN AFRICA.

And yes, Innocent of any crime. But in an Empire built on Fear and Repression, there is no greater crime than the longing for freedom.

The essence of MOVE is commitment, and May 13th, 1985 was a hallmark of that commitment. It was a commitment to Family. A commitment to Love. A commitment to Justice.

Those things, things of the heart, of the soul, of the inner Self, did not die on May 13th, 1985.

It lives on today, in the daily work of the disciples of JOHN AFRICA.

Every day.
LONG LIVE JOHN AFRICA!

from deathrow
Mumia Abu Jamal
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