May 13 marks the 35th Anniversary of the 1985 bombing of the MOVE organization and the black community by the city of Philadelphia that killed 11 people including 5 children and burned down over 60 houses.
That is why the Uhuru Movement and the African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) came to Philadelphia to organize in defense of the human and civil rights of the African community.
That is also part of the hidden history of Philadelphia, which has the highest rate of poverty, imprisonment, hunger and early death of any major US city. Philadelphia owes an apology and Reparations to the MOVE organization and the black community that has experienced decades of deep poverty, substandard schools, and police violence.
APEDF’s mission is to end these grave disparities, tell the true history and build programs for health, education and economic self-determination in the hands of the African community.