I got my hands on 65 hours worth of live broadcast news coverage and special reports on the MOVE bombing which occurred 41 years ago today. I produced this piece using that archival footage.
On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a C4 explosive on the home of the @themoveorganization family at 62nd and Osage Avenue, after 500 police fired over 10,000 rounds into the home. City officials allowed the fire to burn, killing 11 people including five children, and destroying 61 homes.
Eyewitness and forensic evidence indicates that several MOVE children attempted to flee the burning home through the rear but were either shot back inside or their bullet-ridden bodies were thrown back into fire by police waiting in the alleyway.
In 2021, it was revealed UPenn and Princeton had stolen the remains of several of the children and not only conducted experiments on them but also wheeled them out on gurneys at fundraising events.
John Africa's head has never been returned and saw marks on his neck indicate foul play during an unauthorized autopsy.
No one has ever been held accountable for any of it.
In 2023, @mikeafricajr bought the house back which was originally owned by his aunt Louise James, but was seized by the City through eminent domain after the bombing and turned into a police substation. He is barred from turning the home into a memorial until he pays off the $400K mortgage, support link below.
Today we remember:
Rhonda Africa
Theresa Africa
Frank Africa
Raymond Africa
Conrad Africa
John Africa
Tree Africa (14)
Delisha Africa (13)
Netta Africa (12)
Phil Africa (12)
Tomaso Africa (9)
Ramona Africa (survivor)
Birdie Africa (survivor)
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Archival material accessed through Temple University's Digital Collections
These are my Portland City counselors, doing basically everything but paying attention to public testimony. They are talking to each other, eating pizza, laughing and yawning. They each make $133k a year.
Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast
And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @NoahShachtman
& me @WIRED https://t.co/K1cni5P9QC
JULIUS MALEMA SENTENCED
Julius Malema, leader of the pro-land reform, left-wing Economic Freedom Fighters, has been sentenced to prison time for firing a rifle into the air at a party rally. No one was injured, and the initial police charge was filed by the far-right anti-land reform group AfriForum, leading some to suggest the case is politically motivated.
Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), was handed a five-year sentence on Thursday by Magistrate Twanet Olivier.
People online are pointing out the irony: a white judge sentencing South Africa’s most vocal advocate for land redistribution, in scenes that echo apartheid-era power dynamics.
Malema and his legal team are set to appeal the case, meaning he won’t go to prison immediately as the sentence is typically suspended pending the outcome of the appeal process.
An AfroCuban comrade sent me this latest attack on 🇨🇺 by Diaspora Dash where she calls Cuba a “White antiBlack state” and I need to respond fully bc she doesn’t allow comments and the stakes are too damn high to let this imperialist propaganda go unchecked:
As usual, Dash collapses internal Black critique in Cuba into a regime change narrative. That distortion matters bc U.S. policy toward Cuba has long sought to generate hardship and internal disaffection to weaken and ultimately overthrow the Cuban govt.
She opens w/a 1961 piece by Juan René Betancourt as if it’s some neutral sociological exposé. He was a critic of revolutionary centralization. The Communist Party of Cuba itself drew heavily from AfroCuban working class sectors and some of the “independent” Black organizations Betancourt defends were tied to Batista-era patronage networks. His piece is squarely situated within an anticommunist dissident political critique of the revolution, not outside that context
Scholarly studies of race politics in revolutionary Cuba also note that early Black anticommunist critiques were often instrumentalized by Cold War geopolitics + exile opposition.
And using AfroCubaWeb to build a flat indictment is especially sloppy, bc they publish anti-embargo material, and have long posted on the harms of U.S. policy toward Cuba.
On the 2013 piece by Roberto Zurbano: his 2013 argument was not “Cuba is a white suprematist state.” It was that the Revolution made real material gains ag formal racial exclusion, but post Soviet realities, tourism-era stratifications, remittances, and market reforms reproduce disparate racial outcomes.
Zurbano himself objected to the NYT headline and that many Black Cubans make similar critiques do so within, *not against* the socialist project.
She continues to then use Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s San Isidro mvmnt that received direct funding from NED to decry “anti Black repression” in Cuba bc her ultimate stance is clear: Cuba is anti Black, therefore anti-imperialist solidarity is hollow, therefore pressure to topple the Cuban state is justified.😒
I refused to speak with the fascists at "The Free Press," who should be sent to the Hague for complicity in genocide and assassinating Dr. Refaat Al-Areer, so they had an undercover reporter track me down in Beirut and meet me under false premises.
The enemy press, which makes virtually no distinction between itself and the national security state, tries to paint me as an eccentric and pathological exception, instead of admitting the more dangerous truth: that I'm a microcosm of a broader pattern, of some youth in the imperial core identifying more with the brave anti-imperialist mujahideen of the Axis of Resistance, who we understand are fighting for our collective international liberation, than we are identifying with our own corrupt, fascist, pedophilic, and genocidal ruling classes, systems, and cultures, which we hope to see obliterated into the dustbins of history.
Veteran-Elder Dhoruba Bin Wahad is in urgent need of support! We ask that you share and contribute, if possible! Free The Land! https://t.co/ChwygVvbtY
The Sudanese Army managed to liberate Salha, the last remaining urban district in Khartoum State that was still under RSF militia control.
As usual, the people of Salha came out to celebrate.
look how misinformation spreads
one sack of shit grifter decides to lie for a few clicks and now people genuinely think sudan’s genocide is ending because of Iran
there hasnt even been two cities retaken since the Iran war started
no iran is not freeing sudan, iran hasnt even stopped the emiratis from sending stuff to the RSF which they did this week. Please correct this this a complete fabrication by the original poster. The video is very old from a 2024 SAF recapturing of a city i believe.
the SAF has captured one town called Bara that they just lost temporarily. There has been no changes or drying up of resources. It would take a lot longer than two weeks and not just targeting americans but targeting the emiratis directly. The RSF also has a huge huge hugeeeee stockpile from the dozens of gigantic shipments a month the UAE has done for two years straight
please the rest of the grifters I know wont listen but this is harmful misinformation
please
and thank you