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‘Free the MOVE 9’ car caravan
Published Aug 15, 2007 11:33 PM
More than 60 people participated in a car caravan that wound through
Philadelphia neighborhoods on Aug. 11 to free the MOVE 9. Twenty-nine years ago
on Aug. 8, 1978, Philadelphia cops so recklessly raked the MOVE house in the
Powelton Village area in Philadelphia with gunfire that one of their own,
officer James Ramp, was fatally shot in the back.
Nine MOVE members were framed for Ramp’s death. They were sentenced to 30
to 100 years in jail by Judge Edwin Malmed, even though he stated that he
didn’t have “the faintest idea” who killed Ramp when
questioned by Mumia Abu-Jamal on a radio call-in show.
Merle Africa, one of these political prisoners, died suspiciously in jail on
March 13, 1978. The remaining eight are up for parole in 2008. Justice demands
that the MOVE 9 be freed.
—Stephen Millies
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