CASE STUDY OF THE MOVE CRISIS IN PHILADELPHIA

Case Study of the Move Crisis in Philadelphia

Case Study of the Move Crisis in Philadelphia

Introduction

Hizkias Assefa and Paul Wahrhaftig have analyzed the MOVE crisis in outstanding manne. The authors very carefully specifying how and conflicts caused by the various parties tried to intervene. The book is based on the activities of two major confrontations with members of MOVE members. By 1978, the MOVE in life evident in confrontations with their Powelton neigh Bors, and eventually it exploded into a full-scale confrontation with the on lice. 8 August, 1978, one police officer was kined exchanged fire with members of MOVE. After this con frontation with the police to move the map staff was brought up a number of criminal charges that led to imprisonment for a term of nine of them. Others left the Philadelphia area and did not return until 1981, when some of them have moved to Africa, John sisters in a house on Prospect Ossage, middle-class neigh borhood. (Eugene, 1974)

MOVE, the abbreviation for the movement was initiated in the late 19605, John Africa. He was born Vincent Leaphart, John Africa a black artist in the racially integrated part of West Philadelphia known as Powelton Wil Lage. With the help of Donald Glassey, a white community college professor, who also lived in Powelton ViUage African thinking and philoso PHY was written and published the guidelines, 800 pages, the book that became the basis for the organization MOVE of. AU MOVE members took the name of Africa and supports the MOVE Iife-style, which was offensive to others, especially their neighbors. They wore dreadlocks, do not have processed foods or using soap, the clothes were not enough, believe in natural childbirth, their children permanently from the school, recycled garbage in the yard, and wood used for home heating. Eccentric way of life that existed, in short, violating health and housing code.

Applying the [S] PITCEROW Model

[S] PITCEROW - Sources

May 13, 1985, when MOVE, a small group of African-American religious radicals, refused to surrender to local authorities, and from their headquarters in a black middle-class neighborhood in Philadelphia, all hell literally broke loose. In response to an act of disobedience group, Philadelphia police fired about 10000 rounds of ammunition in the house. For direct orders of the mayor's office, bomb, containing three and a half pounds of C4 explosives and Tovex was dropped from a helicopter on the roof of a house in the bunker. The ensuing explosion of fire that eventually engulfed the neighborhood of the flame in the flame, resulting in sixty-one house to another, and the ashes 110 seriously damaged. This measure of human losses as a result of this tragic episode was even greater. Eleven members of MOVE, five adults and six children, were burned alive, and about 250 local residents were left homeless. As a result of this disaster, there were only two survivors, women and young boy. Ramona Johnson Africa, the only adult survivor of the MOVE ...