Dec 31
Jasmine’s exhibition is a paean to Nature, to Mother Earth, and to the power, beauty and (inner) strength of ancestral Amerindian and African-Caribbean women. It radiates symbolic meaning and glorious subliminal messages…
Dec 30
The economy, relations with Caricom, the CCJ and Jamaica as a Republic are three issues to be faced by the new Jamaican government.
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Dec 30
A new documentary on the life of internationally renowned fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica Michael Manley is to to be released online on January 10, 2012; with the official website being launched on Friday December 30, 2011 …
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Also watch Five Michael Manley Videos of the 1970s
And read Michael Manley–A Personal Perspective Norman Girvan
Dec 29
Caribbean Contradictions: Dominican Republic Immgration Policy and Persons of Haitian Descent, Peter Jordens
1 Comment »The ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the OAS has defended his government’s immigraton policy in a recent letter to The Economist magazine:(but) but the Ambassador betrays himself in the second paragraph of his letter by (focusing on) “persons born within Dominican territory of Haitian parents”….
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Dec 26
A West African tradition for protection against evil spirits that became part of Trinidad Carnival is the inspiration of a public performance by a Mexican artist and a Caribbean group at Occupy Wall Street. Laura Anderson Barbata and the Brooklyn Jumbies remind viewers of the global impact of this crisis and the urgent need to elevate and change the values and practices of the New York Financial Industry…
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Video of “Intervention: Wall Street”
Giants on Wall Street Marie-Joelle Parent
Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility Claire Tancons
Dec 23
Ever since the US-supported coup attempt against President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela failed in April 2002, Washington has been pursuing a variety of strategies to remove the overwhelmingly popular South American head of state from power. Multimillion-dollar funding to anti-Chavez groups in Venezuela … has increased exponentially over the past ten years, as has direct political support through advisors, strategists and consultants- all aiming to help an unpopular and outdated opposition rise to power..
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Dec 22
CARICOM nations and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have concluded that an average rise in global temperature of more than 1.5 degrees C will spell disaster for them. But according to this report from Christian Aid, ‘By giving themselves until 2015 to agree a new deal which only takes effect in 2020″ (as decided at the Durban talks that ended December 11) , “governments are delaying desperately needed action and condemning us all to dangerous warming of much more than 2 degrees.”
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South Centre Report on Durban Meeting
Dec 22
Olivier De Schutter is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Globalization creates big winners and big losers. But where food systems are concerned, losing out means sinking into poverty and hunger. A vision of food security that deepens the divide between food-surplus and food-deficit regions, between exporters and importers, and between winners and losers, simply cannot be accepted…
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Dec 21
This new book by Emilio Jorge Rodriguez is “a remarkable collection of essays,” …(which) “should be listed among the few books that can be said to truly advance the understanding of the subject they address.” Its subject is the Haitian novel in the 20th century and the search for Amerindian and African origins in the masterful work of Alejo Carpentier.
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Photo of Book
Dec 18
From the Montreal Gazette
A group of about 30 HEC Montréal students who painted their faces black and paraded around the university pretending to be Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt as part of a freshman event have completed courses in racial sensitivity training. ..
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