Forty years ago today (May 13 1985), the Philadelphia police dropped two firebombs on the group home of the Black nationalist / anarcho-primitivist cult MOVE, killing 11 people (including its founder, John Africa, and five children under the age of 12) and destroying 65 houses as the fire burned out of control.
In 2013, Jason Osder created a documentary account of the incidents leading up to and during the 1985 standoff.
- https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/174352-let-the-fire-burn
- https://collaborativehistory.gse.upenn.edu/stories/move-osage-avenue
Mod note: I’m bending the rules a bit by including this one. It’s not a new film or a re-release, but an important part of American resistance history that deserves remembrance along side the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas and the 1992 standoff at Ruby Ridge.
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