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Completing The Emancipation Process Reparations and the Question Of Self-Repair Part One

Reparations /

The Context of the Reparations Struggle Haitians liberated themselves from chattel slavery and won their freedom on the battlefield. Haiti’s independence, formally declared on January 1, 1804, was no compromise. However that hard won independence was compromised over time by many forces: the economic and political isolation of the war-devastated country, betrayals by those whom […]

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Call for Investigation into Brutal Incident at Immigration Detention Centre

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Call for Investigation into Brutal Incident at Immigration Detention Centre The Emancipation Support Committee is absolutely appalled at reports reaching us of a brutal incident at the Immigration Detention Centre. According to the information we received from more than one source sometime around midnight on July 21 police officers, were called into the detention centre

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Emancipation Greeting

Letter /

Brothers and Sisters and all people of goodwill, Good morning. Today, we celebrate the 176th anniversary of our ancestors’ emancipation from chattel slavery. This is the Event, the day that we eventually walked off the plantations after four years of further enslavement called the Apprenticeship period, which was shortened by our people’s agitation and resistance.

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Lessons learnt from Garvey as Reparation talks continue

Letter, Reparations /

Facebook Event “What can the Caribbean Reparation Campaign learn from the Garvey Movement?” The question will be answered at the next installment of the Kwame Ture Memorial Lecture Series by Dr Rupert Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Political Thought in the Department of Government of the University of the West Indies, Mona. As Caricom strengthens its

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