hate5six
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"For the radio is an instrument of mass struggle...(it) has been transformed into a revolutionary implement as powerful as the gun."
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I got my hands on 65 hours worth of live broadcast news coverage and special reports on the MOVE bombing which occurred 41 years ago today. I produced this piece using that archival footage. On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a C4 explosive on the home of the @themoveorganization family at 62nd and Osage Avenue, after 500 police fired over 10,000 rounds into the home. City officials allowed the fire to burn, killing 11 people including five children, and destroying 61 homes. Eyewitness and forensic evidence indicates that several MOVE children attempted to flee the burning home through the rear but were either shot back inside or their bullet-ridden bodies were thrown back into fire by police waiting in the alleyway. In 2021, it was revealed UPenn and Princeton had stolen the remains of several of the children and not only conducted experiments on them but also wheeled them out on gurneys at fundraising events. John Africa's head has never been returned and saw marks on his neck indicate foul play during an unauthorized autopsy. No one has ever been held accountable for any of it. In 2023, Mike Africa Jr. bought the house back which was originally owned by his aunt Louise James, but was seized by the City through eminent domain after the bombing and turned into a police substation. He is barred from turning the home into a memorial until he pays off the $400K mortgage, support link below. Today we remember: Rhonda Africa Theresa Africa Frank Africa Raymond Africa Conrad Africa John Africa Tree Africa (14) Delisha Africa (13) Netta Africa (12) Phil Africa (12) Tomaso Africa (9) Ramona Africa (survivor) Birdie Africa (survivor) Support @moveactivistarchive Archival material accessed through Temple University's Digital Collections
hate5six89,439 views • 26 days ago
As Target in Minneapolis allows ICE to kidnap their employees and use their parking lots as staging grounds, Philly residents jammed up checkout and return lines in Targets throughout the city yesterday in solidarity with Minnesotans. The message to upper managment laid out in a letter hand-delivered to in-store managers is clear: it won't be business as usual while Target facilitates abductions.
hate5six363,733 views • 4 months ago
Fanon famously wrote, "Every spectator is a coward or a traitor," and few things are as cowardly as those who wield cultural capital and do nothing with it. Art, whether it be music, movies, poetry, or paintings, has a bidirectional relationship with reality. It both reflects and shapes the material world. It can maintain systems or attempt to transform them. The question in this critical hour is what do we make of art that has castrated itself and sold its teeth for comfort? Citing Nina Simone, I asked Mumia for his thoughts on the production and consumption of art that soley offers escapism as the solution. He agreed with Fanon: if your art is not a weapon, you have failed. We are flanked by failure, drowning in it, and we beg for more. Full conversation:
hate5six49,258 views • 2 months ago
Me every night for the last 29 years since this record was released on this date in 1996.
hate5six161,875 views • 1 year ago
Mumia Abu-Jamal called in from prison during yesterday's rally for his 72nd birthday
hate5six16,479 views • 1 month ago
Last night I attended the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony and watched as my footage of Rage Against The Machine was used to induct them in front of an arena of 20,000 people. It feels wrong to be happy. Ever since I was 10 all I wanted to do was give roses to 4 musicians that (1/)
hate5six180,357 views • 2 years ago
I got my hands on 65 hours worth of live broadcast news coverage and special reports on the MOVE bombing which occurred 40 years ago today. I produced this piece using that archival footage. On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a C4 explosive on the home of the MOVE family at 62nd and Osage Avenue, after 500 police fired over 10,000 rounds into the home. City officials allowed the fire to burn, killing 11 people including five children, and destroying 61 homes. Eyewitness and forensic evidence indicates that several MOVE children attempted to flee the burning home through the rear but were either shot back inside or their bullet-ridden bodies were thrown back into fire by police waiting in the alleyway. In 2021, it was revealed UPenn and Princeton had stolen the remains of several of the children and not only conducted experiments on them but also wheeled them out on gurneys at fundraising events. No one has ever been held accountable. In 2023, Mike Africa Jr. bought the house back which was originally owned by his aunt Louise James, but was seized by the City through eminent domain after the bombing. He is barred from turning the home into a memorial until he pays off the $400K mortgage, support link below. I'll be broadcasting live from the site of the bombing today at 5pm ET ( as we commemorate all who were murdered by the City and the hundreds of Black Philadelphians who lost their homes due to City officials refusing to put the fire out. Rhonda Africa Theresa Africa Frank Africa Raymond Africa Conrad Africa John Africa Tree Africa (14) Delisha Africa (13) Netta Africa (12) Phil Africa (12) Tomaso Africa (9) Ramona Africa (survivor) Birdie Africa (survivor) Archival material accessed through Temple University's Digital Collections
hate5six54,889 views • 1 year ago
Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal
hate5six66,847 views • 2 years ago
