The nationās best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, marked the 45th anniversary of the MOVE organization with recollections of when MOVE members were undergound in Rochester, New York. There, they ālived a life of peace that was unthinkable in Philadelphia,ā because āthey lived out of the eye of a merciless media,ā he said. āAbsent the āzone of negativity by the media, people met MOVE as people, and loved them.ā In contrast, police and media hostility to MOVE in the City of Brotherly Love led to life sentences for nine MOVE members in 1978, and the bombing of the MOVE residence in 1985, killing eleven members, including five children.
Arrests of members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front are the latest in a decades-long effort to criminalize the left and to make examples of anyone who might fit the profile of being a "ā¦
An end-of-the-year radical Black reading list from the editors of The Black Agenda Review.
"Army of Artists (For My Friend Horace Silver)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer questions about their book. This weekās featured author is Ben Passmore. Passmore is the author of the ongoing comic book series Daygloayhole, asā¦
āAnti-Communism Weekā is a legal blueprint for crushing dissent. By labeling social justice activism as terrorism and empowering a new national task force, the state is preparing for the most intenseā¦
