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Don't forget to come to the 5lowershop Warehouse II at 382 Bayshore Blvd. on
Thursday, April 28 at 7 pm for a showing of the Howard Zinn MOVE documentary
followed by very special guest speaker Ramona Africa of MOVE!
There will be vegan food, music by Hen10, Cisco Kid, Drizz and Selecta138, a
letter-writing table for the MOVE political prisoners, MOVE merchandise
including books, CDs by MOVE's very own Philly hip hop artists, t-shirts,
videos and more.
This is an alcohol and drug free event. Feel free to bring vegan food to
share!
$5-10 sliding scale donation encouraged to support MOVE speaking tour.
No-one turned away for lack of funds.
Hope to see you there!
382 Bayshore is between Cortland and Oakdale, and is accessible by the MUNI
9 and 24 lines. For info, call 972-2823
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http://www.satyamag.com/apr97/move.html
On a Move!
By Ramona Africa
In May 1985, Philadelphia police bombed and destroyed the house and the
entire block where members of a radical, revolutionary group called MOVE
lived. Eleven people in the house were killed, including the founder of
MOVE, John Africa. The only surviving adult was Ramona Africa, who was
sentenced to, and served, seven years for conspiracy, riot and multiple
counts of simple and aggravated assault. Although a special commission was
established that heavily criticized the Philadelphia police for their
actions, no one was indicted. The following article is based on a talk
delivered at San Francisco State University in October 1994.
The Move organization started out 20 years ago in the early seventies,
founded by a wise, perceptive, sensitive, black man called John Africa.
John Africa taught us to respect and revere life. Based on that belief, we
had peaceful demonstrations at the zoo in Philadelphia and in the Bronx. We
demonstrated against unsafe boarding homes for the elderly; and the Ringling
Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus for their mistreatment of animals. We
went to symposiums and conferences on gang warfare. When we would go to the
zoos or to any type of demonstration around animal rights, we hit them hard.
We asked people what made them think that the mink coat looked better on
them than on the mink. I mean, these people are arrogant.
Do Something About the Rampage
It doesn't matter how small it may seem, or how magnanimous it may seem, but
do something. To commit yourselves to doing something to change the system
that we live in, to make this a better place for yourselves, your family,
your children, your sisters, brothers, husbands, wives, whatever.
Do something for yourself.
I'm saying that we have to do something about the rampage of injustice and
brutality that is rained down on us. Not on some people out there on Mars
but on us right here. We can stop it, and it doesn't take violence. It
doesn't take guns or bloodshed or any of that. All it takes is one thing --
unity.
The MOVE organization is a deeply religious organization, but we are a
revolutionary organization. And really what makes us revolutionary is the
injustice in the system. Revolutionary simply means change and if things
were not wrong, there would be no need for change. We are not masochists.
We are not pacifists. We believe in self-defense, and we are armed and
equipped with the wisdom, and the understanding given to us by John Africa
to know the difference between self-defense and violence and to understand
and explain that they are not synonymous.
MOVE people would not just sit back and accept injustice. When we saw it we
would confront it and expose it. John Africa explained to us that you are as
strong as you believe. So if your belief is righteous, if your belief is
strong, you cannot help but be strong and righteous as your belief, because
you reflect your belief. MOVE will work with any organization that is
talking about defeating this system, that is talking about putting things
right. We work with Native Americans, animal rights people,
environmentalists, socialists, communists, whatever they want to call
themselves. We don't care. I don't care if you're Muslim, Christian,
Democrat, Republican, if you are poor, if you are one of the oppressed: you
get beat with the same black jack, get thrown in the same cells, get the
same lethal injection, gas chamber, electric chair, or whatever. What I'm
saying is when people come together, we get things done. Unity is what this
system fears.
As hard as it may be to believe, this simple principle that cannot be
disputed is what has put us in conflict with this system. Because this
system doesn't give a damn about life -- whether it's man, woman, child,
black, white, or whatever. This system doesn't care. Those who run the
system don't care. All they care about is money, that almighty dollar, that
piece of paper with a dead man's picture on it. That's their god.
One Source, One Truth
Members of MOVE don't see ourselves as superior to any form of life because
we understand that all life comes from one source, is coordinated by one
source...whether you call it "Allah," "Jehovah," "Jesus," or whatever. We
call that force nature, mother nature, mom. But whatever you call that
force, there is only one. And if we understand that, then how can anything
that comes from one source be superior or inferior.
This is what our founder John Africa had taught us. And because of that we
protect the air, we protect the water, we protect the soil, we protect
animals. We don't allow anybody to abuse animals around us. We don't allow
anybody to abuse babies around us, or the elderly. We confront industry that
poisons, pollutes our air, our water, puts toxic waste in our soil.
These are things that nobody is exempt from, no matter how much money or
status you have.
When we confront industrialists, they're going to get an attitude with us
because we say we want clean air to breathe and don't want to breathe
polluted air. How dare we! The information was so simple and so clear that
there was no defense against it because there is no defense against the
truth. Any number of lies can't stand up to one truth.
thats happening on thursday
for those who don't know the date
don't show up looking for meat
or wearing anything but tatttered nikes
your ass WILL be lynched
pssht
who am i kidding
no ones gonna show up
Thursday, April 28 at 7 pm for a showing of the Howard Zinn MOVE documentary
followed by very special guest speaker Ramona Africa of MOVE!
There will be vegan food, music by Hen10, Cisco Kid, Drizz and Selecta138, a
letter-writing table for the MOVE political prisoners, MOVE merchandise
including books, CDs by MOVE's very own Philly hip hop artists, t-shirts,
videos and more.
This is an alcohol and drug free event. Feel free to bring vegan food to
share!
$5-10 sliding scale donation encouraged to support MOVE speaking tour.
No-one turned away for lack of funds.
Hope to see you there!
382 Bayshore is between Cortland and Oakdale, and is accessible by the MUNI
9 and 24 lines. For info, call 972-2823
~**~**~*~*~*~*****~*~*~~**~*~~*~~*~****~*~*~*~****~*~*~*~*~****~*~*~*~*~*~*~
http://www.satyamag.com/apr97/move.html
On a Move!
By Ramona Africa
In May 1985, Philadelphia police bombed and destroyed the house and the
entire block where members of a radical, revolutionary group called MOVE
lived. Eleven people in the house were killed, including the founder of
MOVE, John Africa. The only surviving adult was Ramona Africa, who was
sentenced to, and served, seven years for conspiracy, riot and multiple
counts of simple and aggravated assault. Although a special commission was
established that heavily criticized the Philadelphia police for their
actions, no one was indicted. The following article is based on a talk
delivered at San Francisco State University in October 1994.
The Move organization started out 20 years ago in the early seventies,
founded by a wise, perceptive, sensitive, black man called John Africa.
John Africa taught us to respect and revere life. Based on that belief, we
had peaceful demonstrations at the zoo in Philadelphia and in the Bronx. We
demonstrated against unsafe boarding homes for the elderly; and the Ringling
Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus for their mistreatment of animals. We
went to symposiums and conferences on gang warfare. When we would go to the
zoos or to any type of demonstration around animal rights, we hit them hard.
We asked people what made them think that the mink coat looked better on
them than on the mink. I mean, these people are arrogant.
Do Something About the Rampage
It doesn't matter how small it may seem, or how magnanimous it may seem, but
do something. To commit yourselves to doing something to change the system
that we live in, to make this a better place for yourselves, your family,
your children, your sisters, brothers, husbands, wives, whatever.
Do something for yourself.
I'm saying that we have to do something about the rampage of injustice and
brutality that is rained down on us. Not on some people out there on Mars
but on us right here. We can stop it, and it doesn't take violence. It
doesn't take guns or bloodshed or any of that. All it takes is one thing --
unity.
The MOVE organization is a deeply religious organization, but we are a
revolutionary organization. And really what makes us revolutionary is the
injustice in the system. Revolutionary simply means change and if things
were not wrong, there would be no need for change. We are not masochists.
We are not pacifists. We believe in self-defense, and we are armed and
equipped with the wisdom, and the understanding given to us by John Africa
to know the difference between self-defense and violence and to understand
and explain that they are not synonymous.
MOVE people would not just sit back and accept injustice. When we saw it we
would confront it and expose it. John Africa explained to us that you are as
strong as you believe. So if your belief is righteous, if your belief is
strong, you cannot help but be strong and righteous as your belief, because
you reflect your belief. MOVE will work with any organization that is
talking about defeating this system, that is talking about putting things
right. We work with Native Americans, animal rights people,
environmentalists, socialists, communists, whatever they want to call
themselves. We don't care. I don't care if you're Muslim, Christian,
Democrat, Republican, if you are poor, if you are one of the oppressed: you
get beat with the same black jack, get thrown in the same cells, get the
same lethal injection, gas chamber, electric chair, or whatever. What I'm
saying is when people come together, we get things done. Unity is what this
system fears.
As hard as it may be to believe, this simple principle that cannot be
disputed is what has put us in conflict with this system. Because this
system doesn't give a damn about life -- whether it's man, woman, child,
black, white, or whatever. This system doesn't care. Those who run the
system don't care. All they care about is money, that almighty dollar, that
piece of paper with a dead man's picture on it. That's their god.
One Source, One Truth
Members of MOVE don't see ourselves as superior to any form of life because
we understand that all life comes from one source, is coordinated by one
source...whether you call it "Allah," "Jehovah," "Jesus," or whatever. We
call that force nature, mother nature, mom. But whatever you call that
force, there is only one. And if we understand that, then how can anything
that comes from one source be superior or inferior.
This is what our founder John Africa had taught us. And because of that we
protect the air, we protect the water, we protect the soil, we protect
animals. We don't allow anybody to abuse animals around us. We don't allow
anybody to abuse babies around us, or the elderly. We confront industry that
poisons, pollutes our air, our water, puts toxic waste in our soil.
These are things that nobody is exempt from, no matter how much money or
status you have.
When we confront industrialists, they're going to get an attitude with us
because we say we want clean air to breathe and don't want to breathe
polluted air. How dare we! The information was so simple and so clear that
there was no defense against it because there is no defense against the
truth. Any number of lies can't stand up to one truth.
thats happening on thursday
for those who don't know the date
don't show up looking for meat
or wearing anything but tatttered nikes
your ass WILL be lynched
pssht
who am i kidding
no ones gonna show up