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Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 22, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper ------------------------- DEMONSTRATORS SAY 'FREE THE MOVE 9!'
A "visual demonstration" called by the MOVE
Organization and
International Friends of MOVE Network was held Aug. 10 on the corner of Broad and Walnut streets in Philadelphia to call attention to the unjust imprisonment of eight MOVE members for 24 years. A ninth member, Merle Africa, died in prison on March 13, 1998. Aug. 8 marked the 24th anniversary of the
Philadelphia
Police Department's "shoot-in" at MOVE's Powelton Village headquarters. During the police assault one officer, James Ramp, was killed, most likely by "friendly fire." Then-Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo and District
Attorney Ed
Rendell pinned the blame on MOVE, a Black-led radical organization, while police conveniently destroyed all evidence by bulldozing the house and everything on the lot within hours of the shooting. Since then, MOVE supporters have uncovered evidence
of
bullets having been fired from a house across the street. They are demanding that officials do the right thing and release the MOVE 9. --Betsey Piette
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