The MOVE Organization vs. The Philadelphia Police pt 1
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@Aeroplane wrote: This is how I know I'm lame: I first heard about the MOVE conflict with Philadelphia police while reading the lyrics to Atom and His Package's song "Philadelphia" which has the...
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@higreg wrote: I still remember May 13, 1985, my dad was driving me to little league when the news on KYW came out that the police bombed Osage Avenue. The troubled history and racism of Philly's...
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@higreg wrote: Love that song. Atom riffs off an old Philly tourist slogan: Philadelphia: Get to Know Us! Coincidentally, also from 1985, the year of the Osage bombing. Read full topic
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@popobawa4u wrote: I don't know much about them, but I don't know if its fair to say that their rejection of science and medicine makes them "more than just political radicals". It sounds like...
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@Schill_MacGuffi wrote: Agreed, and beyond glamorizing MOVE from a modern perspective, I think the cartoon overstates the extent of public sympathy for them, at least prior to the bombing. While they...
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@higreg wrote: It went a little beyond anarcho-primitivism. It had all the hallmarks of a religious cult with John Africa at the center. Most folks would have been tolerant of them, even in the 70s...
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@JesseK wrote: I remember watching the Frontline report as a small child in the late 80s and even then I found the city of Philadelphia's actions reprehensible. Read full topic
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@Baron_Groznik wrote: There is a superb 2013 documentary entitled "Let the Fire Burn" that really breaks down how the whole MOVE mess started and tragically ended. I haven't read the entire Hip Hop...
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@PrestonSturges wrote: Looks like they cast the cops from "Sabotage"I always considered using the screen name "Sir Stewart Wallace as Himself" Read full topic
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@PrestonSturges wrote: There are still a lot of weird little black cults, and I'm not clear how closely they resemble white supremacist Christian identity churches. There are a surprising number of...
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@mindfu wrote: I have some trust in our narrator, and am willing to wait and see what the connection is. Which, from being important enough to have an entire episode devoted to it, I expect will be...
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@LDoBe wrote: One thing that just struck me as fucked up reading about MOVE a few months back was the fact that the cops were even able to get their hands on dynamite (actually it was liquid blasting...
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@higreg wrote: Philly has a great history of Black religious movements/cults. Some benign, even positive and others not so much, like MOVE (which began as a Christian group) or Faith Tabernacle, whose...
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@higreg wrote: Here's another good MOVE overview. MOVE 101: Why, 30 years ago, Philadelphia dropped a bomb on itself Read full topic
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@Aeroplane wrote: This is how I know I'm lame: I first heard about the MOVE conflict with Philadelphia police while reading the lyrics to Atom and His Package's song "Philadelphia" which has the...
View ArticleThe MOVE Organization vs. The Philadelphia Police pt 1
@higreg wrote: I still remember May 13, 1985, my dad was driving me to little league when the news on KYW came out that the police bombed Osage Avenue. The troubled history and racism of Philly's...
View ArticleThe MOVE Organization vs. The Philadelphia Police pt 1
@higreg wrote: Love that song. Atom riffs off an old Philly tourist slogan: Philadelphia: Get to Know Us! Coincidentally, also from 1985, the year of the Osage bombing. Read full topic
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