Free Download On a MOVE: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCW7Z4HK | 2024 | 10 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Mike Africa Jr., D. Watkins
Narrator: Mike Africa Jr.
The incredible story of MOVE, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985, killing 11 civilians-by one of the few people born into the organization, raised during the bombing’s tumultuous aftermath, and entrusted with repairing what was left of his family. Before police dropped a bomb on a residential neighborhood on May 13, 1985, few people outside Philadelphia were aware that a Black-led civil liberties organization had taken root there. Founded in 1972 by a charismatic ideologue called John Africa, MOVE’s mission was to protect all forms of life from systemic oppression. They drew their ideology from the Black Panther Party and pre-dated animal and environmental rights groups like PETA and Earth First. MOVE emerged in an era when Black Philadelphians suffered under devastating policies brought by the long, doomed war in Vietnam, Mayor Frank Rizzo’s overtly racist police surveillance, and, eventually, President Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs. MOVE members lived together in a collection of West Philadelphia row houses and took the surname Africa out of admiration for the group’s founder. But in MOVE’s lifestyle, city officials saw threats to their status quo.
