move

the act of deciding to do something

"he didn't make a move to help"

"his first move was to hire a lawyer" the act of changing your residence or place of business

"they say that three moves equal one fire" a change of position that does not entail a change of location

"the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"

"movement is a sign of life"

"an impatient move of his hand"

"gastrointestinal motility" the act of changing location from one place to another

"police controlled the motion of the crowd"

"the movement of people from the farms to the cities"

"his move put him directly in my path" (game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game change location

move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

"How fast does your new car go?"

"We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"

"The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"

"The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"

"news travelled fast" cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense

"Move those boxes into the corner, please"

"I'm moving my money to another bank"

"The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion

"He moved his hand slightly to the right" change residence, affiliation, or place of employment

"We moved from Idaho to Nebraska"

"The basketball player moved from one team to another" follow a procedure or take a course

"We should go farther in this matter"

"She went through a lot of trouble"

"go about the world in a certain manner"

"Messages must go through diplomatic channels" be in a state of action

"she is always moving" go or proceed from one point to another

"the debate moved from family values to the economy" perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)

"think before you act"

"We must move quickly"

"The governor should act on the new energy bill"

"The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

"This child impressed me as unusually mature"

"This behavior struck me as odd" give an incentive for action

"This moved me to sacrifice my career" arouse sympathy or compassion in

"Her fate moved us all" dispose of by selling

"The chairman of the company told the salesmen to move the computers" progress by being changed

"The speech has to go through several more drafts"

"run through your presentation before the meeting" live one's life in a specified environment

"she moves in certain circles only" have a turn

make one's move in a game

"Can I go now?" propose formally

in a debate or parliamentary meeting

MOVE is an organisation formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972 by John Africa (Vincent Leaphart) and Donald Glassey. It was described by CNN as: ''A loose-knit, mostly black group whose members all adopted the surname Africa, advocated a "back-to-nature" lifestyle and preached against technology.''

Confrontations With Police -

Powelton Village, 1978 - Glassey owned a house in the Powelton Village neighborhood of Philadelphia, and his house became the first home base for MOVE. Neighbors began to complain about the sanitation aspects of their back to nature philosophy, and after an armed standoff with Philadelphia's department of Licenses and Inspections, Mayor Frank Rizzo ordered a blockade of the immediate neighborhood, in order to get MOVE members out of the house. The blockade was not successful, and on August 8, 1978, Philadelphia police attempted to clear the house by force. Every tactical move was telegraphed to the house via bullhorns. One of their first tactics was to turn fire hoses on the house. The police even considered the depth of the basement of the MOVE house and the height of the basement windows, to ensure that nobody would drown if the basement was completely flooded.Who began shooting is disputed; MOVE claims that they never fired a shot; videotape shows muzzle flashes from the basement windows of the MOVE house. One police officer, James Ramp, was killed. Rizzo had the house demolished illegally the next day. Leaphart and eight other MOVE members were sentenced to prison for the murder.

Osage Avenue, 1985 -

Background - The MOVE group then moved to a house in west Philadelphia owned by Louise James, a relative of a MOVE member. They continued their back to nature philosophy, and added a new agenda – freeing John Africa (Vincent Leaphart). In a change from their previous tactic of staging protests downtown, MOVE began to pressure their neighbors. The Osage Avenue houses were connected, and their roofs formed a convenient jogging track for MOVE. Neighbors listened to the MOVE physical training program through their bedroom ceilings. Neighbors complained about that, and the public address system that MOVE used for political diatribes, as well as the smell of human and animal waste. Then Managing Director W. Wilson Goode was running for mayor, and the neighbors were convinced that Philadelphia's first African American mayor would be able to reason with MOVE, so they did not press the issue pending the election. Goode was elected in November of 1983. The situation on Osage Avenue did not change.

Confrontation Leads Police to Bomb MOVE House - On May 13, 1985, in a failed attempt to serve arrest warrants on four members of the group, Philadelphia police became engaged in a gun battle at MOVE's communal residence. About 10,000 rounds of ammunition were fired by the police. With the approval of the mayor, the police eventually decided to drop a bomb on MOVE's rooftop structure, alternately described as a "gun turret" and as a purely defensive fortification, with the objective of destroying it. The structure was unoccupied at the time, though the house itself was occupied. This bomb did not significantly damage the rooftop structure, but did start a fire which destroyed the entire block and killed eleven people. Ironically, the city's best firefighting equipment had been trained on the rooftop bunker all morning, but "the decision was made to let the fire burn" in the words of police chief Gregory Sambor. 62 houses burned to the ground; only Ramona AfricaRamona and Birdie Africa escaped. Six adults and five children in the MOVE house were killed.Police initially said they had been fired upon first with automatic weapons, but only a small number of non-automatic weapons were found in the burned-out home. MOVE supporters have described the raid as a revenge attack for the 1978 shooting.

Aftermath - In the aftermath of the catastrophe the city launched a special investigation which found, among other things, that "Dropping a bomb on an occupied row house was unconscionable." The mayor was re-elected in the next election, and no police officer was suspended, fired, or fined.Philadelphia has paid over $32 million to the victims, including $840,000 to Birdie Africa, $1.5 million to Ramona Africa and the relatives of John and Frank Africa, and has been ordered to pay $29 million to residents of Osage Avenue and Pine Street whose homes were destroyed by the fire. (The city of Philadelphia is appealing the latter award.)

See also -

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Branch Davidian

External links -

cnn.com - CNN article

library.temple.edu - Report of the Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission (AKA the "MOVE Commission")

onamove.com - MOVE homepage

hartford-hwp.com - "John Africa's MOVE Organization"

angelfire.com - "25 Years on the MOVE"

philly.com - MOVE block residents awarded $12.83 million (''The Philadelphia Inquirer'')

maps.google.com - 6221 Osage Ave. from Google Maps

mindfully.org - Alice Walker's Thoughts about MOVE and the bombing

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