Monday, August 16, 2021

Blog Update and More Fliers from the Campaign Against John Gilbride

Since the Leaving MOVE blog was launched on June 29th we've posted to the blog nearly every day. The events that have unfolded in the last six weeks; June going into hiding, many who were born into MOVE publicly leaving, the launch of the Murder at Ryan's Run podcast, and the start of this blog, all coincided with a period of my life when I had an unusual amount of time I could give to this project. That situation is beginning to shift and as a result, we will likely slow down posting to two to three times a week. There's still much more that needs to be written and explained and we have many, many more documents to present. There's also a great deal about early MOVE history for which we're still laying a foundation. 

In the last six weeks, there have been 45 posts to this blog and many of them build on one another. I know from personal communication that many people started reading from the first post and have continued to the present. However, there are also people who are jumping in now and this can be very confusing. Most of the later blog posts build on earlier posts, and it has to be this way because of how complicated cult dynamics and MOVE history are. In the next few days, I'll be posting a guide to the blog with key recommended posts and some other resources for understanding this material.

For today I'm posting three more fliers that were distributed during the custody battle that Alberta Africa turned into a potential confrontation, as well as a war of character assassination and intimidation against her ex-husband John Gilbride (that culminated in his murder). There are many more documents like this that provide context for the situation around the custody case. Under each document, I've made a few notes to contextualize the document. 

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Many thousands of copies of this flier were distributed in September of 2002. Notice the way that a routine custody case is being framed as an attempt by the government to kill members of MOVE. 


These were distributed in front of Ed Rendell's office as well as in his residential neighborhood. Supporters were sent into the residential neighborhoods of the judges on this case, politicians, lawyers, John Gilbride, and his family. 

This was distributed in front of Judge Shelley Robins New's office and I believe that it was also distributed in her neighborhood. 

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