Throughout the 1970s and eighties of the last century, the extremist Move Move Move was many dramatic meetings with the police.
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On May 13, 1985, after a long confrontation, Philadelphia municipal authorities dropped a bomb in a residential house. The Osage Avenue home was the Move Move Move Move African-MARICAN RADICAL, which has faced the police on many occasions since the establishment of the group in 1972.
The resulting fire killed 11 people – including five children and the leader of the group, John Africa – destroyed 61 homes, and a community.
in Let the fire burn, A new movie that appears at the AFI DOCS FestivalDirector Jason Osdar lists the years of tension between the police, the movement and the neighbors who have ended in the tragedy.
The title of the film indicates the decision of the local authorities to allow the fire to assemble the boat without interference.
Auder, Assistant Professor at Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, grew up in Philadelphia and was at the same age of children who were killed in the fire.
“Those of us are lucky because, they are a kind of traditional childhood, we grow a reserve in a certain way. For most people, there is a moment when this shelter is broken,” says Oder from Neil Conan from NPR.
“My father’s generation will always remember where they were when JFK died, but for me, this was the fire.”
The catalyst for the accident came eight years ago, in 1978, when the confrontation between the police and moved to the death of a police officer. Nine members of the organization were imprisoned for fire. The transmission said that the death was the result of the friendly fire.
After this incident, Move reaped it and hit the neighborhood to attract the attention of the authorities. The group moved to a complex on Osidge Street. In the months before the fire, the group members built a very frightening structure, similar to the cellar on their roof.
MOVE fire of 1985 was killed 11, including five children, and destroyed 61 homes.
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“It has holes to shoot it, and it has a high floor on the mass,” says Osdar. The police believe that they are in real danger.“
The police launched a huge operation aimed at removing the group from its complex. A few days after a confrontation, with thousands of ammunition rounds, the police dropped the explosives at the Osage house from a helicopter.
“I think there is a specific point of view, in fact, they wanted to raise the work of the police and show the true nature of the regime when they came above the top.
“Do you expect to exceed the summit violently? Do they intend to die at home? I don’t know the answer to that. It is not impossible, in fact, they did.”
Step organization was sometimes characterized by worship, as a somewhat background-it was known for asking for a vegetarian diet-sometimes as extinguishing black pads.
Uder says he found that the true nature of the group was more complicated.
“Return to nature seemed somewhat appropriate in the early 1970s, when they started, but things became more gradual than militants,” says Osdar. “In fact, to a large extent all of these descriptions, the group rejects. They will somewhat refuse and black liberation.”
“They were all the things we talked about, but they are also a family.”
The film exclusively uses archive footage of local TV coverage and court sessions to assemble the story, without suspension or interviews. Auder spoke to Michael Ward, the only child who escapes from the fire; To Ramona Africa, the two adults are alive; And to one of the police officers. In the end, he decided not to use the shots.
“There was a mixture of realization that in those sessions, we had tremendous potential to do something different and unique,” says Uder. In fact, the things you want to do with the documentary interview were not strong in the interviews we launched.