You know, I mean, I think right off the bat, the reason the move bombing itself and then the move organization are interesting are, I think if you go up to someone and you say, hey, do you remember the time the police bombed this organization in the city?

People look at you like you're ridiculous as though that never happened.

Or people are like, oh, well, that must have happened a very long time ago.

But as you and I were discussing before we started the episode it's the 35th anniversary of the move

bombing just happened this was the move bombing is a millennial right it's like we're not that far

removed from when the city of philadelphia and we'll discuss the surrounding things but dropped a bomb

just on a house,

on a row house in West Philly. So I think that in and of itself is interesting, but then also

the move organization and the aftermath of the bombing have a couple of different interesting

threads that I've been thinking about for a little while and that I think are interesting

and informative around movement politics as far as, you know, political prisoners,

what, you know, how the left supports people that have been arrested by the police,

how we reflect on what movements of the past look like, the escalation of police violence

and police brutality over time. And then basically the changes to the city of Philadelphia after the bombing,

and particularly to the neighborhood where I think it's something like 60, 61 houses burn down.

So I think it's worth starting out by kind of drawing an outline of the basic facts

about the major two events that we're going to talk about,

where we kind of delve into the origins of Move and the background of what we're going to talk about.

So on the 8th of August, 1978, police lay siege to a house in West Philadelphia,

a communal house occupied by a black liberation group called Move. It doesn't stand for anything.

It's just M-O-V-E in uppercase.

Because you're supposed to respond, all the members are supposed to respond that they're on the move.

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