MAY 13, 1985 — OSAGE AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA
A Screenplay by Byron Edward Curran · RWSFilms
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Opening Statement
It has been — days
since the City of Philadelphia
dropped a bomb on its own people.
The distance between that event
and what is happening now
is nothing.
10,000
Rounds of ammunition fired at a residential home
The house was still standing.
What Happened Next
The City of Philadelphia dropped a bomb
on a residential neighborhood.
61 homes burned to the ground.
250 people were left homeless.
11 people died.
Five of them were children.
Accountability
No city official was charged.
No police officer was charged.
No fire official was charged.
The one person charged
was Ramona Africa.
A MOVE survivor.
She served seven years.
October 2022 — Death certificates reclassified
They had names
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This is not a story about radicals.
This is not a story about confrontation.
This is a story about what an American city
did to its own people.
And what took thirty-seven years to say out loud.
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