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.
The Middle Eastās only real weapons of mass destruction are Zionism, U.S. imperialism, and Israelās nuclear arsenalāa toxic trifecta fueling endless war.
"City of Angels" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
From ICE courtroom ambushes to sheriffs' execution threats, America's domestic repression now openly wields the tools it honed in overthrowing foreign governments.
Homelessness isnāt policy failureāitās policy. From 19th-century British 'clearings' to todayās police sweeps and Blackstone evictions, the playbook stays the same: displace the poor, privatize theā¦
To honor Kwame Ture is to condemn Zionism. Yet the lecture bearing his name platformed a speaker who calls anti-Zionism 'hate', erasing Tureās clarity that Palestineās liberation is inseparable fromā¦
