[LIVE] MOVE Day of Remembrance 2024
100May 13th is a dark day in Philadelphia history. 38 years ago today the City of Philadelphia fired 10,000 bullets and dropped satchels of C4 explosives from a helicopter onto the home of the MOVE family, killing six adults and five children and destroying 61 homes in the process. Many of victims, including some of the children, were found with fatal bullet wounds as they tried to flee the burning home. By the time officials from the coroner's office arrived, body parts were seen dangling from the bucket of a crane, as police and fire officials failed to treat the area as a crime scene under investigation. At least one adult, MOVE's leader John Africa, was found with his head severed off.\n\nNo City official was ever held accountable for this mass murder.\n\nIn 2021, it was revealed that both UPenn and Princeton had stolen the remains of at least two of the children, Tree (14) and Delisha (12), and used them as classroom props without informing the surviving family. UPenn commissioned The Tucker Law Group to investigate and they found that Penn Museum Curator Janet Monge and Dr. Alan Mann simply “demonstrated, at a minimum, poor judgment and insensitivity” in their appropriation and handling of bones of two Black children shot and burned alive by the City.\n\nMuch like the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, the MOVE bombing was largely absent from public discourse until recently.\n\nIn 2023, it was announced that the former MOVE home at 6221 Osage Avenue has returned to the family: https://youtube.com/live/zF0ZHVMMHKY\n\nIn 2024, The MOVE Activist Archive launched aimed at preserving the history and legacy of the MOVE Organization:\nhttps://linktr.ee/themoveactivistarchive