Free the Move 9

      The Move Organization is a group founded in 1972 by John Africa. Members of the group adopted the surname Africa. They were a group that was very much in touch with nature and all its beings and worked tobetter their lives and help those around them with their problems including helping addicts fight addictions. They were a group that had enough with the modern day destructive society, and just wanted a different life and a different way. They were a group that fought for justice for all living things. This group would avidly demonstrate and would quickly protest when they disagreed with something, or thought something was inhumane. 

     Through the years the Move Organization continued to protest when they felt it necessary, protesting things such as animal cruelty by demonstrating outside Zoo's. Due to these demonstrations many run ins with law enforcement followed, and it got so bad that at one point fearing for their lives, Move members decided to arm themselves. After a raid on their home in which a police officer lost his life, 9 members of Move were incarcerated

and they are known as the Move 9. One member has died in prison and the remaining 8 have all served over 30 years in prison. 

      It is believed that police officer James J. Ramp who was shot in the back of the head and killed during the firefight, was accidentally fataly shot by his own men, in what is commonly called a case of „Friendly Fire“. What reaffirms this notion is that it is believed that the members of the Move Organization did not fire a single shot during the massive attack on their home.

     I have read and seen video clips about many injustices that happened to this group, and no where was law enforcement punished for its misdeeds. I have read about law enforcement beatings causing 4 miscarriages and the death of one baby boy who was only 3 weeks old when he was killed in an altercation with police. No one was punished more any of these misdeeds, nor for the beating of Delbert Africa that was caught on tape, nor for the bombing of the home on Osage Avenue in Philadelphia on May 13th 1985. No one is doing time except the Move 9. 

     

                                                 Write to the Move 9

Charles "Chuck" Sims Africa #AM-4975

Delbert Orr Africa #AM-4985
William "Phil" Phillips Africa #AM-4984
1000 Follies Road
Dallas, PA 18612

Debbie Sims Africa #OO6307

Janet Holloway Africa #OO6308
Janine Phillips Africa #OO6309
451 Fullerton Ave.
Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238

Edward "Eddie" Goodman Africa #AM-4974
301 Morea Road
Frackville, PA 17932

Michael Davis Africa #AM-4973
P.O. Box 244
Graterford, PA 19426-0246