S20: Why & how Matthew Amha chose to tell the story of MOVE — On stage at Hot Docs

The Expert Witness from Uncover

CBC

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4.5 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this live discussion from the Hot Docs festival, Africas VS. America host Matthew Amha joins Falen Johnson on stage to speak about the stories journalists choose to tell — and how they tell them. He reflects on the personal cost of infusing his own experiences into his journalism, and how he navigated the MOVE organization’s historically fraught relationship with the media.

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0:00.0	On Mother's Day 1985 Philadelphia did something unthinkable.
0:04.3	The city had been engaged in a standoff with a radical organization called Move.
0:08.8	The helicopter takes off then.
0:11.0	The city dropped a bomb on Move's headquarters killing 11 people, five of them children.
0:16.4	My daughters were taken away by the school of government.
0:19.9	Why is it so many have never heard of the move bombing?
0:22.7	Black people will never get justice in America.
0:25.7	The Africa's versus America available now everywhere you get your podcasts.
0:31.6	This is a CBC podcast.
0:36.2	Hi, I'm Phelan Johnson, co-host of the Secret Life of Canada and the CBC Podcast Buffy.
0:41.7	On Thursday, May 4, CBC Podcast hosted a night of storytelling at the 2023 Hot Docs Festival.
0:48.4	Hosts from some of CBC Podcasts' most acclaimed series took to the stage and turned the mic
0:54.3	on themselves to share the stories they've spent years figuring out how to tell.
0:58.7	I had the pleasure of joining host Matthew Amha on stage in a wide-ranging conversation we touched
1:05.0	on the role of journalists and the stories we choose to tell and how we choose to tell them.
1:10.8	Take a listen.
1:15.4	In 1985, the city of Philadelphia did something unthinkable.
1:19.3	It dropped a bomb on its own citizens.
1:22.0	On a residential house in a middle-class neighborhood and for more than a decade,
1:26.8	the city had been in a standoff with a black liberation organization called Move.
1:32.3	The target of the bomb moves home and headquarters.
1:36.1	The bomb started a fire and authorities let the fire burn, killing 11 people, including five children.
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