At 5:00 Monday morning, June 28, the Move Organization was awakened by loud shouting and screaming coming from the back premises of our house at 4504-06 Kingsessing Ave. when we went to the doors and windows to see what was going on we saw about 8-10 cops jumping the fences from other people's properties onto our property, running, hollering and screaming psychotically, running up thru our yard, leaping over the front gate and running across the street into the park. All this was done under the guise of trying to "catch some boys" . . . at 5:00 on a Monday morning. Move people don't believe this, we don't trust these cops because they're KNOWN liars, and what they did this morning is the same tactic (along with the excuse of chasing somebody) that they used before May 13th, 1985 up at Osage Ave.
There are circumstaces surrounding the Move Organization at this time that are urgent, and extremely serious: they concern the Move 9, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a 3-year old Move child. The Move Org. is not taking it lightly when the City of Phila. sends its cops onto our property at 5:00 in the morning, and we don't believe for one minute that lying excuse about them chasing some boys. Move is maintaining the same position now that we have always maintained, a position of self-defense. If the City of Phila. sends their cops in on Move we're gonna fight back, and we want people to know if there IS a confrontation it's because the Move 9 are due to come up for PCHA hearings on July 7th that could either bring them home from prison or expose the devious treacherous lying position of this gov. to keep them IN prison despite their innocence. Mumia is scheduled for a writ of cert. in a few months. The Move child is being used as a pawn by his father who's turned traitor to Move and is trying to provoke the city to confront Move over the issue of the child being with his mother, a Move woman. (Lousie James and Laverne Sims turned traitor to Move and in 1985 they helped provoke the city to confront Move on Osage Ave. where a bomb was dropped on Move and 11 Move men, women and children were killed.) Move people are gonna do what we have to do. Those who sympathize with us, those who are fair-minded and want to speak out, send a fax, or call Ed Rendell's office at: Fax: (215) 686-2555; Phone: (215) 686-3000

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