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“Stop the Shot”: Resistance through Science, Religion, and Law

On August 4, an interesting event took place: “Stop the Shot”. This was a video press conference organized by the Truth for Health Foundation in the US, which was live streamed online and has since been uploaded to various alternative video hosting platforms—on the main one advertised, it has already received three quarters of a […]

“Head-Decay-Shun”: Literacy, tool of the dependent and displaced?

Given the particularities of the way Jamaican creole English is pronounced, the word education often sounds like head-decay-shun. I once heard a Guyanese professor claim that this pronunciation, in this case, was more than just coincidental: it was a critical rejection of the formal school system by some Rastafarians in Jamaica, given what they saw […]

A Caribbean Love Affair with Obama? “We Need Barack! Jehovah Guide Him”

This is really an exciting time in which to be living, something like a rewind of 1968 combined with 1975 — the revolution of the forgotten peoples and the new social movements on the one hand, and the withdrawal of a bloodied empire and the departure of a criminal president on the other hand, along […]