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Episode 4: The Commissioner’s Gambit
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Feb 20, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Complaints from neighbours about MOVE’s lifestyle lead to increasingly violent clashes with police. One confrontation turns deadly, and by 1978, relations between MOVE and city authorities have reached a crisis point. The MOVE home in residential Powelton Village becomes the scene of a two-months-long starvation blockade, and the site of a stand-off with police that will end in blood, gunfire, and the arrest of nine members of MOVE, collectively charged with murder for the death of an officer.
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Hear all 7 episodes of The Africas VS. America now by logging in to CBC Listen (desktop or web browser access only), or by subscribing to the CBC True Crime Premium channel (apple.co/cbctruecrime), where episodes are also ad free.
Released:
Feb 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (10)
Introducing: The Africas VS. America: To those that remember, it’s known simply as the bombing of West Philly. In the spring of 1985, the City of Philadelphia became the first in U.S. history to drop a bomb on a family of American citizens. The attack killed 11 people, including five children, and the ensuing fire set a neighborhood to ruins. The targets that day? A family of Black radicals known collectively as MOVE, who found themselves ensnared in a city — and nation’s — domestic war on Black Liberation. Over seven episodes, host Matthew Amha investigates the events that culminated in the MOVE bombing, and the long afterlife of a forgotten American tragedy. Through intimate conversations, The Africas VS. America offers an unseen look into the MOVE's origins and dynamics while looking ahead to the group's uncertain future. by The Africas VS. America