The nationâs 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 âlived a life of peace that was unthinkable in Philadelphia,â because âthey lived out of the eye of a merciless media,â he said. âAbsent the âzone of negativity by the media, people met MOVE as people, and loved them.â 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.
The rhetoric of crime prevention has always served to enforce colonial order. Today, this same logic drives the policing of Black neighborhoods as a form of urban pacification.
A federal crackdown in Washington, D.C., is escalating a bipartisan war against the Black working class. This assault, enabled by local Black misleadership, exposes the colonial nature of policing.
Charlie Kirk's assassination has become the pretext to accelerate a pre-existing fascist agenda, targeting a broad spectrum of forces, from leftist organizers to mainstream institutions.
Walkouts in over 60 cities disrupted trains, ports, and schools to protest Israelâs genocide in Gaza.
The ongoing hybrid war against Venezuela exemplifies imperialismâs evolving tactics for regime change used against Global South nations.
