We initially pledged to mobilize 100 supporters to stand with MOVE, which was planning to attend. This is America!” Indeed, the hideous crime that followed was a concentrated expression of the racist state terror meted out to black people every day in capitalist America. But this was the 1970s, the era of Nixon's Silent Majority backlash, and conflict was inevitable, especially under a mayor (Frank Rizzo) with a near-zero tolerance for dissent. Yet the only film to focus on the 1978 and 1985 assaults is one made by three students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Ben Garry, Ryan McKenna, and Matt Sullivan, and simply called MOVE. What is demonstrable is that nine individuals could not have pulled the same trigger under any circumstances. The brutal bombing of the MOVE organization by the Philadelphia police department on May 13, 1985 qualifies as one of those dreadful moments in recent history that, when explained, sounds as if it came out of an Octavia Butler novel rather than real life. From the strange stares of the questioners, to the often provocative answers from Ramona Africa and John Africa’s two blood sisters, to the overall tragedy of the entire situation, “Let the Fire Burn” is intense, heartbreaking and, during certain moments at the hearings, morbidly compelling. and A caption concludes his story: the cop’s locker was later scrawled with the epithet “n----r lover” and he left the police force, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The moral arc of the universe may bend toward justice, as Martin Luther King famously observed. Spying and Lying in the Belly of the Beast, Mass Drowning of Refugees in Mediterranean, Toronto Cops Terrorize Immigrants, Minorities. The task proved harder than they anticipated. Colorlines is a daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinion and curation. “Kids were killed, their parents couldn’t help them, the police wouldn’t help them, and the whole thing just freaked me out. In the aftermath of the fire, Jesse Jackson spotted in the charred remains of people’s lives a chance to push a little black capitalism. “While putting together the film, some people would see the fires and think they were watching something from the ’60s, not really comprehending that the MOVE bombing happened during their lifetime,” Osder said. 399 Market St. Donate today. Of the 13 MOVE members in the house, 11, including five children, were killed. Shortly after moving into the working class black neighborhood, MOVE disciples would go on loudspeaker tirades against the system and the cops. In 1976, blackjack-wielding cops descended on a MOVE celebration, and in the resulting melee Janine Africa’s newborn infant was trampled to death. On 13 May 1985, black Democratic mayor Wilson Goode and his city administration, acting in collaboration with the Feds, firebombed the West Philadelphia home of the MOVE organization, a mostly black, back-to-nature commune. Going back before MOVE, Philadelphia was known for its killer cops. The film leans heavily on footage of the investigation commission that was set up by Goode to absolve his administration but which nonetheless was compelled by the sheer magnitude of the massacre to reveal its horrors.

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