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FREE the MOVE 9, Join FaceBook Cause, Contact the Parole Board THIS MONTH! (March)
by BE47 Tuesday, Mar. 03, 2009 at 12:58 AM

The innocent "MOVE 9" are up for parole after 30 years! Letters and calls are needed to the Pennsylvania Parole Board. Hearing begin in April. Mumia Abu Jamal was reporting on their case when he was framed for murder himself, and all but silenced.

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There is now a FaceBook site for those wanting to understand and help the "MOVE 9." The FaceBook Cause is here: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/97559?m=618c3fb4

Another useful site is the new website with Phil Africa's art: http://philafrica.bravehost.com/

And the main MOVE 9 site: http://www.onamove.com/move9/

As well as Ramona Africa's story here on PBH IMC:
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2007/08/27830.php

QuickTime AUDIO:
http://media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/08/bastille_day__free_the_move_9_in_2008.mp3


PLEASE WRITE and call THE PENNSYLVANIA BOARD OF PAROLE AND PROBATION ASKING THAT THEY FREE THESE INNOCENT PRISONERS:

Debbie Sims Africa #006307
Janet Holloway Africa #006308
Janine Phillips Africa #006309
Michael Davis Africa #AM-4973
Charles Sims Africa #AM-4975
William Phillips Africa #AM-4984
Delbert Orr Africa #AM-4985
Edward Goodman Africa #AM-4974


This is the second year, after THIRTY, that they have been eligible for parole. They were all denied last year. Again, the prisons all support their freedom based on their good behavior. We need public pressure to get them home.

Here is the contact information directly from the website:

Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole
1101 South Front Street, Suite 5100
Harrisburg, PA 17104-2517
(717) 787-5699

"if you wish to provide comments on a specific case, you must put the information in writing and send it to the above address. This will serve to ensure that your comments are available to the decision-maker on the case. If you want a response to your written correspondence, you must include a return address" [http://www.pbpp.state.pa.us/pbppinfo/cwp/view.asp?a=3&q=154164]

It is best that people BOTH call AND write as often as possible, as the April hearings approach.
Please call and write this month, March! Provide all 8 names as listed above along with each of their prison I.D. numbers, also listed above.


Thank you!!!

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