This is a new interview conducted by Kiilu Nyasha, host of the TV show "Freedom is a Constant Struggle," with whom Angola 3 News has recently collaborated with. This video is not one of our collaborations, but it is an important video that has recently been uploaded to Kiilu's website, featuring an interview with Pam and Ramona Africa, who both have a story that needs to be told. So, if you agree about the importance of the video, please help spread the word by passing onto your friends.
Also be sure to check out our own interview with Ramona Africa, accompanied by a detailed essay laying out the key facts of what happened on May 13, 1985: http://angola3news.blogspot.com/...
(reprinted with permission of Kiilu Nyahsa http://kiilunyasha.blogspot.com/... )
Ona Move with Pam and Ramona Africa
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, September 26, 2008.
Pam Africa is the Minister of Confrontation for the MOVE Organization and the Coordinator of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Ramona Africa is the Minister of Communication for the MOVE Organization and the sole adult survivor of the May 13, 1985 massacre. On that day, a State Police helicopter dropped a C-4 bomb, illegally supplied by the FBI, on the roof of the MOVE Organization’s house at 6221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia. The bomb started a fire that was allowed to burn, and eventually destroyed 61 homes, leaving 250 people homeless: the entire block of a middle-class black community.
The Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission (The MOVE Commission), appointed by Mayor Wilson Goode, documented that when the occupants of the house tried to escape the fire, police shot at them, blocking their escape. In the end, six MOVE adults and five children died. Ramona Africa and 13 year-old Birdie Africa were the only survivors, after successfully dodging the police gunfire.
For more information about death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, visit www.freemumia.com and www.abu-jamal-news.com and read/listen to his essays at www.prisonradio.org
For more about MOVE and the struggle to free the MOVE 9, visit www.onamove.com and move9parole.blogspot.com
--Kiilu Nyasha is a San Francisco-based journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party. Through the end of 2009, Kiilu hosted a weekly TV program, "Freedom Is A Constant Struggle," on SF Live, and many of her shows are archived here: http://kiilunyasha.blogspot.com/
Kiilu also writes for several publications, including the SF Bay View Newspaper and BlackCommentator.com. Also an accomplished radio programmer, she has worked for KPFA (Berkeley), SF Liberation Radio, Free Radio Berkeley, and KPOO in SF. Kiilu can be contacted via email: Kiilu2@sbcglobal.net