youth4mumia Custody Case

ALERT!!!! ALERT!!!! ALERT!!!!

Attention MOVE Supporters!

September 9, 2002

Today the MOVE organization went to Camden County Court for a hearing to uphold the restraining order against John Gilbride, issued after Gilbride pushed Alberta Africa on Tuesday, August 27, thereby almost fracturing her wrist. Judge Millenky heard two and a half hours of testimony about
Gilbride's abuse of Alberta and her son and determined that the restraining order would not be upheld and that the Philadelphia Family Court's ruling by Judge Shelley Robbins New granting Gilbride partial custody of Alberta's son
would stand. He stated that the witnesses' testimony was conflicting, as to details such as where exactly Gilbride stood during the altercation. Gilbride, of course, lied and denied ever touching or abusing Alberta or her son.

Four people aside from Alberta saw and testified to Gilbride's abuse. Alberta sat in court with her wrist wrapped in an ace bandage to help the injury heal, and this judge still decided that there was enough doubt in his
mind about the abuse that a small child could be entrusted to this man.

Furthermore, Alberta informed Judge Millenky that Judge Shelley Robbins New was promptly removed from Family Court and transferred to Criminal Court after her ruling in the Gilbride vs. Gilbride custody battle. Her credibility is questionable, and this transfer at the very least brings up
many more questions about her capabilities to determine what's in a child's best interest. Apparently, even judges working in her own system are trying to take away her power to determine children's wellbeing. Judge Millenky
discounted this admission and continued to rule that the restraining order would not be enforced but that Judge New's ruling would go into effect.

Gilbride is continuing to escalate this situation, in violation of MOVE belief, to take Alberta's son from her out of his own spite and hatred. He is purposely exploiting his "son" and the courts for a personal vendetta, exactly like Rendell and the rest of Philadelphia "legal" officials.
We are calling on supporters to increase the pressure on both Philadelphia and Jersey courts. No one wants to see another confrontation occur. More importantly, there's no way that these cops are going to come in, enforce a
so-called court order, and take a child from his mother to a proven unfit father who abuses his family.

These courts have demonstrated their concern for children through these rulings, their foster system, and their ability to bomb a family and then try to cover it up. There is no way they will take this child out of the safety, protection, and love that he is currently surrounded by.

Judge Myrna Field heads Philadelphia Family Court. An emergency stay has been filed in Judge Field's court to suspend all of Gilbride's visitation rights until these court proceedings are settled. It needs to be emphasized
that Alberta, and MOVE, is not attempting to separate the child from his father. Gilbride's supervised visits have always been permitted and encouraged. His visits are not an issue. The child should be in contact with his father to the extent that it's safe, healthy, and productive. However, Gilbride having unsupervised custody of the child would be
dangerous because of Gilbride's instability. All supporters need to be contacting Judge Field and encouraging her to grant the stay and to do whatever it takes to overturn her colleague, Judge Shelley Robbins New's, ruling.

All of these judges have stated to supporters that their power is limited but this is obviously a lie. Not only do they have the power of these courts, but they also have incredible pull in City Council, with local and
national businesses, and with the political candidates working for election. They have many arenas to exercise their power on behalf of a child and demonstrate that they actually do care about children's welfare. As the people they supposedly represent, we are demanding that they take
action.

The courts are playing territorial games between Jersey and
Philadelphia, trying to confuse and distract folks so that they can easily take this child from his mother and try to weaken and neutralize the MOVE organization. We need supporters to be on these officials and make their awareness and concern loud and clear. This shit isn't going down in the dark. People need to be aware and make their strong stance of supporting children, the MOVE organization, and resistance to this system known.

Judge Myrna Field
Presiding Judge,
Family Court
1801 Vine Street, Suite 314
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-686-7970 Fax 215-683-7108

Judge Robert G. Millenky,
Camden County Hall of Justice
101 South 5th Street, Suite 120
Camden, NJ 08103-4001
Phone: 856-365-3134

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 610-499-0979 or 215-387-4107
EMAIL ONAMOVELLJA@AOL.COM OR uprising1978@aol.com

September 6, 2002

UPDATE ON CASE OF ZACK AFRICA

There will be an important hearing regarding the MOVE custody case on Monday, Sept. 9th at the
Camden County Courthouse at 101 South Fifth Street Camden, NJ.

We are asking anyone who possibly can to meet at 8:30 AM on the second floor of the Camden Court House to show support for MOVE. We are very clear that this custody case is just an excuse for the city to cause another confrontation with MOVE
so we need all the support that we can get there to put pressure on this system.

OnaMOVE, Philly Friends of MOVE, 610-499-0979

September 5, 2002

"This is not just a MOVE issue, this is an issue that's been plaguing women for thousands of years. Women can become impregnated and have a child but then, according to man, the woman becomes unimportant in the child's life, even though, if not for the woman, the child wouldn't exist. Society may think this is a man's world, but MOVE don't believe that."

The MOVE Organization

On September 22, 1998 John Gilbride walked out in the middle of the night, abandoned his child when he was 2 years old. He disappeared for months without any contact, not even a phone call to see if his son was ok. The child was devastated by his father's abandonment, the mother, Alberta Africa, tried to find John, hired investigators, went to his job, repeatedly sought help from his parents to find him because she didn't know if he was dead or alive and the child was suffering the loss of his father. His parents wouldn't help her; his job told her he took a leave of absence. Then after 6 months, John came back filing for divorce and custody, trying to pretend that he abandoned his family because MOVE did something so bad to him, that MOVE is so wrong, so criminal, so violent, that he had no choice but to leave the way he did cause he feared for his life, but now he's back because he decided to come back and get his son out of MOVE, that he don't want his son raised in MOVE around "criminals and illiterates" but he walked away and left his son in the care of MOVE, so what does that say about how violent he really sees MOVE. No parent who sees any potential danger for their child would leave their child in a situation like that. John left his 2 year old son in MOVE, after he abandoned him and he's been content all these past 6 years knowing everyday of his life this child spends it in MOVE. Alberta on the other hand ain't like that at all, she is taking the stand any real parent would take when it comes to an issue of their child's safety. She is taking a very uncompromising position, she is sayin "No" to John taking her child away alone, by himself, unprotected because she knows that to leave her son alone with John Gilbride would be to leave him in danger, and she refuses to leave her child in a situation like that, unprotected, for even one second, let alone a week, a month, a year. This man has never paid one dime of child support in the last 5 years (the child is now 6 years old and in all these years its been MOVE who supported him, fed, clothed, kept a roof over his head, educated, loved, nurtured, protected this child, not the father, the only thing the father has done in all these years is fight the mother at the expense of the child's happiness and security. Dragging them both thru the hardships of one court hearing after the next to try get his way and take the child from his mother even despite him not even doin so much as supporting the child) and the courts don't push the issue of child support, in fact, when Alberta's lawyer, Angela Martinez, tried to approach the subject of John's financial responsibilities to the child, Judge Shelley New told the lawyer "Don't go there" and wouldn't allow the lawyer to say anything about John's non-support.

For four years a Judge Edward Rosenberg presided over this custody case, and after lengthy consideration and investigation (including privately talking to the child, visiting the child's home and taking extensive testimony from child psychologist, Dr. Suzanne Ross), this judge made a decision to give mother physical custody of the child and father shared legal custody and supervised visits in the child's home. This order was supposed to be reviewed and made final at the next hearing, however Judge Rosenberg retired from the bench, whereupon a Judge Elizabeth Jackson was given this case. She recused herself without any explanation and then Judge Shelley Robins New took over the case (a good point to be made here is that 2 years ago, in the midst of this case, while Judge Rosenberg was still actively involved as judge, John and his lawyer, Sheryl Rentz, tried to switch judges. They filed petitions with Judge Rosenberg's name taken off as judge and Judge Shelley Robins New's name inserted in his place. This was an illegal maneuver that they had to back off of when it was exposed). Judge New did not schedule a "review" of the court order as indicated by Judge Rosenberg's order, Judge New held a new trial which lasted one day and after that one day trial Judge New completely overturned Judge Rosenberg's decision.

HELP ZACK! STOP THIS JUDICIAL INSANITY! Stop all women and children from being victimized by men thru judges like Judge New in custody cases. Telephone calls and/or faxes to Judge Myrna Field (President Judge of Family Court) would be very helpful:

215-686-7970

215 683-7108 (Fax)

August 28, 2002

This is a statement from Alberta Africa, the mother of the child:

Judge Shelley Robins New is obviously bought and paid for by John Gilbride and his lawyer Sheryl Rentz. No ethical judge would have overturned a senior judge's decision (in this case, Judge Edward
Rosenberg), and brought about the chaos that now exist in this child's life as opposed to the peace and happiness the child was enjoying before this. The point I want to make here is that John Gilbride, the so call father of this child, does not love his son and never has loved him, that's why he was able to walk out and abandon the boy the way he did 5 years ago and then come back into the boy's life after disappearing for months, only to build false hopes in the child that his father would do the right thing and
love him, be a true father and take care of him. This is hardly the case. John Gilbride has only one agenda, to fight with me, no matter what it takes, no matter how long or how dirty, no matter how much damage it causes to his son, because John Gilbride is determined to beat me down into the ground and have his way whether its right or wrong. He has said, as recently as yesterday Aug. 27th, that he doesn't care what happens to his son, he will not stop fighting as long as he has a court order, he won't ever
stop and he doesn't care about the consequences.

What I want people to understand is that this man is irrational, unstable. He was once a MOVE member, he lived with MOVE for over ten years, he married a committed MOVE woman, me, had a child in MOVE. There can be no question that John Gilbride knew full well MOVE's belief before he fathered a child in MOVE. Now he wants to come back after becoming a traitor to MOVE, his wife and son, and try to convince people that he loves his son and only wants to be in his life (the excuse Judge New uses in her court order to try to justify giving the boy to his father) but John Gilbride does not love his son, not when he knows MOVE belief and knows that MOVE never turn our children over to our enemies (and a traitor
is an enemy by anybody's definition). You see, if John really loved his son, there's no way he would push a fight with me over an issue of me handing him over my son. His love for the boy would be the priority, not a fight, and he would demonstrate that love by respecting my belief and stop trying to get his way and take the boy but rather take the course that will be best for the child's happiness, and work with what he's got, John sees his son as often as he wants and he's always had that despite his attitude, but he knows that based on my religious belief, I will only allow him to be with my young son if I'm present because I'm the boy's mother and this is my belief, and because he have proven himself time and again to be untrustworthy. MOVE don't take chances when it comes to our children's lives, this is love. The
question here is how could any man claim to love his child while at the same instant ruthlessly push a potentially dangerous situation that the child is right in the middle of. John Gilbride is a traitor, and he's a liar, but he wants people to sympathize with him as if he's the victim. Everything happening in his life
today, he created 5 years ago when he walked out, abandoning his son. He should now be content with what he has, content to see his son as often as he wants, under circumstances where he treated good and very fairly. He pays no child support, never has, and the courts have never even mentioned the fact, let alone demand he pay child support. So in my view I feel John got a good deal from Judge Rosenberg. He doesn't have to pay for anything yet he gets to be with his son anytime, with no limitations put on him
because of my understanding of love, peace, encouragement. But that's not enough, and why isn't that enough if he only want to be in his son's life out of love and nothing more. How many men who leave their families get all that John Gilbride gets, not any! But still John's not satisfied, his son is healthy, secure, happy, but John's still not satisfied. Judge Rosenberg issued an order that everybody could live with, but Judge New is not satisfied with that or the courts rule of thumb "if it's not broke, don't fix it." Judge New wants her way and she wants John to have his way, and the child's best interest is not the issue, that's obvious. Judge New is just like John Gilbride, unreasonable, irresponsible, and unremorseful. A judge who have proven herself unethical with her court order dictating to a MOVE mother to give over her child to a man like John Gilbride, despite her superior judge's advice not to do that, and despite Dr. Suzanne Ross, a renowned child psychologist, who's advice to Judge New in a recent court hearing of July 31, 2002 was that such a thing as giving this child to his father and taking him away from his mother would utterly destroy the child. This is the kind of judge and woman Judge New is proving herself to be, no good, and because of her racist, hateful, biased behavior all hell is breaking loose and things are gonna get a lot worse.

ONA MOVE

This is a very important and powerful letter from Alberta Africa to Judge Field.

We want to remind people again of the absolute seriousness and potential danger of this situation and the way this system is manipulating it. Please continue to call these Judges as often as possible and pressure them to do right:

Judge Shelley New, 27 South 12th Street, Room 400, Phila, PA 19107 Phone: 215-683-7056, Fax: 215-686-9302

Judge Myrna Field, 1801 Vine Street, Suite 314, Phila, PA 19103 Phone: 215-686-7970, Fax: 215-683-7108

(Judge Myrna Field is a higher up Judge and we must focus a lot of pressure on Field. Judge New is the Judge on the case but after one day of pressure through phone calls they stopped answering the phone. This shows how much pressure we are putting on them and we must keep it up)
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To quote JOHN AFRICA THE COORDINATOR,

quote-…THERE AIN'T AN EXAMPLE IN HISTORY WHERE A
RELIGIOUS PEOPLE DIDN'T DEFEND THEMSELVES WHEN THEIR RELIGION WAS THREATENED…end quote,

JOHN AFRICA

AUGUST 26, 2002

To: Judge Myrna Field, President Judge of Family Court

From: Alberta Africa

On The MOVE:
Judge Field I am writing this letter at the request of your secretary, Mrs. Cook. I want you to be informed of the present situation facing us all as a result of your Judge Shelley Robins New's judicial misconduct in her flagrant mishandling of the custody case--Gilbride Vs. Gilbride.

Judge New recently issued a court order overturning the previous decision of Judge Edward Rosenberg. Judge New, after a one day hearing, has taken it upon herself to give custody of my son over to his father, John Gilbride a man who walked out abandoning the child when he was only 2 years old and from that time til now have proven himself to be irresponsable, unremorseful, dangerous, untrustworthy and an unfit father. Judge Rosenberg never made a ruling to hand over this child to his father because he could not justify it, not after the 4 years of his involvement in the case and hours of court hearings, numerous testimony, psychological findings and legal procedure, Judge Rosenberg was never sympathetic with me, he simply could not prove me a bad mother or
John a good father. It was very obvious then, as it is now that I am a good mother, the child is safe, secure, well cared for. He's flourishing, thriving under my care; there's no good reason to change this. The father has access to see the child as often as he likes, but not to take the child away from his mother or home without the mother's presence--this is the decision Judge Rosenberg made. By the family court's rules and regulations, it's a wise decision, that promotes peace and stability for the child's best interest but while serving the needs of the father as well; The court's rule of thumb is "if its not broke don't fix it". Judge New however, after a one day hearing that initially was scheduled as a simple "review" has decided that Judge Rosenberg's decision is unsound, and that she must change it, take this child away from his mother, hand him over to the father and completely disrupt this young child's life as he's known it all of his life. What Judge New has done is created a situation that will lead to
disastrous consequences either way you look at it (whether he goes with the father, or not, and mother must defend her decision not to allow it). Consequences that have already begun to manifest at the expense of this 6 year old child's happiness and security as a result of the father's harassment and abuse that's began immediately after he received notice of judge New's order (Aug. 27, 2002) I was forced to take out a restraining order against John Gilbride after an incident he created in my home on that day involving me and my son over Judge New's court order, and during that incident I was physically injured by John Gilbride.

There is no way I will tolerate this abuse of my child's life, happiness and most particularly, his safety. John
Gilbride is an unfit father, he's proven this over and over by his total lack of regard for this child either physically or
emotionally, and no woman in her right mind would hand over her 6 year old child to a person like this, no matter
who they claim they are, and whether or not the woman is a MOVE member.

John Gilbride was at one time a MOVE member, he knows MOVE'S belief and he knows the position he's putting his son in by his actions, but he's said on more than one occasion he doesn't care, he wants things his way. Now that Judge New is giving him what he sees as his way, he's said he won't stop pursuing it, he's got his court order now and he's never gonna stop pushing it, despite my belief, or any consequences that may arise, even though his son's involved. He said he didn't care what happened to the boy because he's got a court order, if I don't follow it whatever happens to my son is my fault, not his. This is blatant hate, resentment directed at me and a total lack of responsibility or concern, with no regard for whatever the outcome may be, even for the child, and I've always experienced this lack of caring one way or the other as to what happens to my son, from this man. This has been one of my major complaints throughout this whole custody ordeal because I know this is proof that goes beyond words that John Gilbride is unfit as a father. But there's also the issue of my Religious Belief being disrespected and this blatant religious intolerance being spit on me and my son by Judge Shelley Robins New. She very
obviously has sympathetic leanings towards John Gilbride as a white man and absolutely nothing more than that, other than to say Sheryl Rentz is a personal friend of Judge New's and John Gilbride's lawyer, albeit under the table and confidential. Between the three of them, they think they can push my back up against the wall with a court order for me to violate my Belief, hand over my son or else, knowing my Belief would never allow this. Also, everybody involved knows John Gilbride is a supervisor at U.S. Airways, and his kidnapping my son is a foregone
conclusion when John have made clear (and his mother and father, the so-call grandparents, have said) they don't approve of MOVE Belief, don't like MOVE people, which would include me, and do not want to see this child raised by me in MOVE. I don't see how it could get any clearer than this what everybody's agenda is here, but Judge New's obvious involvement in the conspiracy is gonna cost everybody who goes along with it and condones her unethical behavior. Judge New knows John has access to the child's passport and she never addressed the issue of the passport being returned to me. She didn't follow basic procedure by having a home
evaluation of John's residence but issued an order he could take my child there, she never addressed the issue of no child support although it was brought out several times during the hearing that the father never supported the child, she never even acknowledged that there was an issue of John's ability to have custody of a child. Whether he's emotionally or physically even capable of that kind of serious responsibility. Judge New disregarded the child (Judge Rosenberg talked to the child privately), disregarded Dr. Ross, the child's psychologist, and she disregarded me, the child's mother. The picture is clear; nobody's fooled about nothing that's going on here and its real ugly. There's too much opposition and valid argument to substantiate the opposition to John Gilbride being left alone with this child, away from his home and his mother for this judge to have made an order such as this if she's on the up-n-up, which at this point is not even an issue for debate. Judge New has even gone so far as to disregard her own Judge Rosenberg's decision. She arrogantly ruled to overturn Judge Rosenberg's decision, and on July 31, 2002 she didn't "review" the case as was stated in Judge Rosenberg's order, she held a
protracted hearing on a case that had already been tried and a decision made by a judge who's her senior, and then she proceeded to twist and turn everything in the case to fit John Gilbride, with no regard for the young child. She ruled to have my child taken away from me, his mother, and said he's to be handed over to John Gilbride without any justification what-so-ever, all she did was throw out a bunch of words that I know if put to the test she
could never substantiate, and that is no grounds for what she's attempting to do here.

I know you know I will never tolerate this. It's a violation of my Religious Belief, and a direct slap in the face this judge is dealing me as a woman and mother, and I'll say it again, I am not gonna tolerate it.

MOVE mothers don't give our children over to our enemies. John is a traitor to me, to his son, and to MOVE, and he is an enemy, not a friend.

Judge New never thought it necessary to read the transcripts from the previous hearings, she admitted in court to my lawyer, Angela Martinez (Ms. Martinez is no longer being retained by me) that she hadn't read the transcripts, but despite that flagrant disregard for her own laws and rules of procedure she's "decided", and she spit that judicial malfeasance all over everybody at the expense of a 6 year old child, and most significantly, her "decision"
is not helping, its made things that were once tolerable, intolerable, and bad, only to get worse if not corrected.

I am not violating my Belief, I am a committed MOVE member and I'm gonna continue to stay a committed MOVE member. John Gilbride knew this before he married me and he is not gonna come back now claiming anything otherwise just because he wants to have his way and hurt me by taking my son away from me for no other reason
other than because he thinks he can. I will never violate my Belief and I'm not gonna allow anybody to make me violate my Belief, and compromise my child's safety and security.

ONA MOVE
ALBERTA AFRICA

NOTE: It should be noted that Judge New signed and dated her court order on Aug. 8, 2002, the 24th anniversary date of the police attack on my family that resulted in tragedy. I know this judge is not unaware of what that date means to me as a MOVE member, which is a clear indication of how she feels about MOVE and our children and that cannot be dismissed as mere coincidence. This judge hates MOVE, and on that fact alone she should have recused herself from the very beginning, but now there is no question that she's incapable of ruling fairly in this case and on those grounds Judge New should be recused. I am requesting that she be recused and the law requires her to recuse herself.

To quote JOHN AFRICA THE COORDINATOR,

quote-…IF THE RELIGION OF THE JEW IS ACCEPTABLE WHAT
MAKES THE RELIGION OF THE MOVE ORGANIZATION UNACCEPTABLE, IF THE BELIEF OF THE CATHOLIC IS
RESPECTABLE WHAT MAKES THE RELIGION OF THE MOVE ORGANIZATION DISRESPECTABLE, IF THE FAITH OF THE PROTESTANT IS VALID WHAT MAKES THE FAITH OF THE MOVE ORGANIZATION INVALID, IF THE CONDUCT OF THIS GOVERNMENT IS RIGHT WHAT MAKES THE CONDUCT OF THE GOVERNING POWER OF MOVE WRONG, DIDN'T THE JEW THAT IS NOW ACCEPTED START OUT AS UNACCEPTABLE, DIDN'T THE CATHOLIC THAT'S NOW RESPECTED START OUT AS DISRESPECTED, DIDN'T THE PROTESTANT THAT IS NOW SO CALLED VALID START OUT AS INVALID AND WASN'T THIS GOVERNMENT REGARDED AS A TOTAL MISFIT BY OTHERS IN GOVERNMENT, TOTALLY DISRESPECTED, DISREGARDED, COMPLETELY UNRECOGNIZED TIL NOW…IF THERE WAS ANY RIGHT IN ANY OF THESE PEOPLE, THE JEW, THE CATHOLIC,
THE PROTESTANT, THE GOVERNMENT, NONE OF THEM WOULD DO OR ALLOW TO BE DONE TO MOVE WHAT THEY SAW AS WRONG FOR BEING DONE TO THEM, HOW YOU GONNA SEE SOMETHIN AS SICK WHEN IT'S BEING DONE TO YOU AND TREAT IT AS IF IT'S HEALING WHEN IT'S DONE TO OTHERS, IF IT WAS SICK THEN, IT'S SICK NOW…end quote,
JOHN AFRICA