Attack on MOVE remembered

Some of the grandchildren of the MOVE 9 and other MOVE children participated in a protest on May 13. The young children helped hand out flyers, held signs and yelled slogans into a bullhorn on the 22nd anniversary of the vicious 1985 government bombing and murder of MOVE family members in Philadelphia.

Besides commemorating that horrible crime, MOVE members and others also demonstrated today in support of the MOVE 9, who have been in prison since 1978—almost 30 years—and will be up for parole in 2008. The nine were sentenced to 30 years for the “crime” of being in a building withstanding a full-scale attack by Philadelphia police, during which a cop was killed. The building was bulldozed over within 24 hours of the attack, destroying evidence that could have proven their innocence.

—Report and photo by Joe Piette