The Philadelphia Health Commissioner cremated the remains of the victims of the MOVE bomb without notifying the African family
The Philadelphia Health Commissioner, Dr. Thomas Farley, submitted his resignation on Thursday as an ongoing investigation into the disposal of the remains in the MOVE bomb explosion in 1985.
Unexpected news is the 36th anniversary of the deadly bomb attack in West Philadelphia. dIn the notorious siege of the Black Liberation Organization compound, the police C4 explosives were dropped on the property from a helicopter, destroying dozens of rows of houses and destroying the community of John Africa, the founder of the organization. Eleven people died, including five children.
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After the MOVE bombing in 1985, when the Philadelphia Police Department killed 11 adults and five children by dropping a bomb on a house, two of the children’s bodies were handed over for analysis to a forensic anthropologist. To the horror of online activists, he never gave them back. Featured Video Hide
MOVE is a Black liberation and environmentalist group that was designated a terrorist organization by former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Gregore J. Sambor and Mayor Wilson Goode. Advertisement Hide
The bombing was the culmination of a siege in which tear gas, water cannons, and 10,000 rounds of ammunition were fired on the house that had 12 adult MOVE members and six children inside. The bomb set the house on fire, and the commissioner prevented firefighters from responding, reportedly ordering them to “let the fire burn.”
âWe felt the house shake, but it hadnât occurred to us that they dropped a bomb. Pretty quickly, it got smokier and smokier. At first we thought it was the tear gas, but then it got thicker. ⦠It started getting hot in there. The house was on fire.â - Ramona Africa, lone adult survivor of the 1985 MOVE bombing
What would you do if you turned on the news and found out the police had just bombed an entire neighborhood in your city? Would your foundational belief in America change? Would you live every day of your life in fear, knowing it could be taken away at any moment by the people sworn to protect and serve? Well, for the city of Philadelphia, this hypothetical scenario became a reality on May 13, 1985, when the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb on U.S. soil in its effort to evacuate the Black liberation organization, MOVE. It isn t entirely clear whether one should be shocked that this happened or that the story remains largely unknown to many Amer
Forging Frank: Meet Zenos Frudakis, the sculptor behind the Rizzo statue
Local sculptor talks public art – from RBG and MLK to Rizzo
In a city where statues go up (Octavius V. Catto) and statues come down (Christopher Columbus, his own Frank Rizzo), Glenside-based sculptor Zenos Frudakis is ahead of the game at a time when all of America is re-considering whom it pays tribute in terms of its public monuments, and whom it topples.
Whether you realize it or not, you see the work of the 69-year-old sculptor on a daily basis, and sense, perhaps, the meaning and vibration he’s lent to molding Giudicci clay and forging bronze into shape and form. You become part of (or rail against, if you so choose) his message or spirit; you commune with each piece’s physical heft, its socio-cultural weight or its politicized torpor.
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