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MOVE responds to the denial of parole to the MOVE 9 women
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move9parole.blogspot.com | 04.22.2008
This is a statement from MOVE that has just been sent out by Ramona Africa. MOVE WOMEN DENIED PAROLE!!! Today, April 22, 2008, MOVE women that survived the August 8, 1978 police attempt to kill off MOVE were denied parole by the Pennsylvania Department of Probation and Parole. The parole board says that MOVE women were denied parole because they minimized or denied the nature and circumstances of the offense; refused to accept responsibility; lacked remorse and because the prosecutors office said MOVE should not be paroled because we act outside the “law”. In fact, it’s the parole board that is “acting outside the law” by demanding that any inmate (especially those that have maintained their innocence from the very beginning) say that they are guilty when they are not. MOVE is innocent, we ain’t guilty, we ain’t gonna say we’re guilty and the parole board has no authority to demand that we lie and say we’re guilty. That is the height of arrogance when the parole board knows that countless people are convicted in the courts daily, are sent to jail and end up being released after 20, 25, 30 years because they are innocent just like they said they were. Where would any “remorse” come from when you are innocent? Why would anybody take responsibility for a crime that they didn’t commit? Where is the wrong in denying something that you did not do? It is obvious that these officials are sending a very clear message to the people. The message is that they’re gonna do whatever they want to do and they don’t care about the truth , they don’t care that they’re breaking the very laws that they claim to have MOVE and millions of others in prison for breaking and they don’t even care that people know that they’re the ones that are breaking the law. Lynn Abraham (the district attorney of Then mayor, Rizzo, “acted outside the law” on August 8, 1978 when he ordered MOVE HQ., vital evidence in a murder trial, the “scene of the crime” destroyed. The courts “acted outside the law” when they proceeded with the trial after destroying the scene of the crime because when they destroyed the evidence they destroyed the bases for any trial. Judge Malmed, the trial judge in the August 8th murder trial “acted outside the law” when he sentenced 9 innocent MOVE people to a maximum 900 years in prison for a crime that he could not say or prove that any 1 of the 9 committed, a crime that he admitted publicly that he didn’t have the “faintest idea” who committed. Lynn Abraham “acted outside the law” when she knowingly signed fraudulent warrants for cops to come out and murder innocent MOVE people in May of 1985. The proof of just how fraudulent those warrants were lie in the fact that every single charge listed in those warrants were dismissed as having no basis, every single charge. Is there any question why MOVE people are so bitter, so full of fight and so motivated to keep revolting against this rotten ass system? JOHN AFRICA has opened our eyes and HE keeps us motivated, keeps us full of fight. They can hurt MOVE because we’re alive, we have feelings, but thanks to JOHN AFRICA they WILL NEVER STOP MOVE! LONG LIVE JOHN |
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Chuck Africa's Move hearing is in May and his writings may help
Submitted by Richard Kane (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 5:09pmhttp://www.phillyimc.org/en/node/66594
I wish Chuck Africa's plea for dying prisoners could be posted around the world like Mumia's writings are.
For some reason, my posting of Chuck Africa’s plea that elderly dying prisoners be allowed to spend their last days with family and friends, was separated from the other Move Mumia material.
Prejudice is not only whites thinking that blacks are less then human but prejudice people believing that prisoners and especially Move prisoners, aren’t human like the good folk on the right side of the law. Chunk Africa’s plea can show, blinded by civilization, people that dying prisoners are human and in the process that Chuck is also human.
His parole hearing is in May, and by then his plea could be posted all over the world and if he gets parole, maybe next year he can help one or two others get parole as well. PS, two woman and one man were so far denied parole. Don’t accept the Inquirer’s word on anything.
His plea starts off:
I write this letter to communicate a grave concern of mine and maybe yours once reading this.
A sea of apathy floods the cell blocks and corridors of Graterford State Prison as scores of elderly/terminally ill inmates are dying at a rapid and alarming pace. The mere fact of anybody dying is not remarkable by itself; but cold indifference can border on the inhumane when people capable of easing needless suffering fail to act. It is not my intent to suggest that there is a quick fix to a complex situation involving many individuals. However . . .
Click these links for the rest of his letter and more information.
www.phillyimc.org/en/node/66594
www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/6330
blackcommentator.com/272/272_col_move_9_must_be_paroled.html
A slightly similar appeal by Mumia
emajonline.com/index.php?action=4&content_id=129
For Chuck Africa’s life story click on his picture at
www.onamove.com
I knew Move when they used to wash cars and Mumia when he volunteered at Community newspaper. A lot has change but the punishment mill grinds endlessly on.
RichardKanePA@aol.com google RichardKanePA
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