♫ Ain’t No Mountain High Enough ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Since today is Juneteenth,  I thought it only appropriate to play some Motown — in my book some of the best music produced in the U.S.!  Of course, since I feature Motown songs and artists pretty often in these posts, I’ve already played most of my favourites at one point or another … some of […]

♫ Ain’t No Mountain High Enough ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Understanding Juneteenth (Reprise) — Filosofa’s Word

This is the post I posted on Juneteenth in 2020, but since I couldn’t say it any better today than I did then (actually, Jamelle Bouie did most of the work on this) then I thought it apropos to run it again. Today is Juneteenth, and I would like to start with a few words […]

Understanding Juneteenth (Reprise) — Filosofa’s Word

The Amazon Rainforest and Indigenous Forest Peoples in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 6 – « Totemic Sculptures – Grace …

Totemic Sculpture – canvas sky and cosmos In « Totemic Sculptures – Grace Teshima Gallery Exhibit » textured paintings plus two totemic sculptures, …

The Amazon Rainforest and Indigenous Forest Peoples in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 6 – « Totemic Sculptures – Grace …

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Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Andando pelas areias decidi te deixar.

Pisava um barro escuro

que tremia,

me atolando e saindo

decidi que saíras

de mim, que me pesavas

como pedra cortante,

preparei tua perda

passo a passo:

cortar tuas raízes,

soltar-te só no vento.

Ai, nesse minuto,

coração meu, um sonho

com asas terríveis

te cobria.

Te sentias tragada pelo barro,

e me chamavas, mas não te acudia,

tu ias imóvel,

sem te defender

até que te afogavas na boca da areia.

Depois

minha decisão encontrou teu sonho,

de dentro da rotura

que partia nossa alma,

surgimos limpos outra vez, desnudos,

nos amando,

sem sonho, sem areia, completos e radiantes,

selados pelo fogo

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Santarém, Pá 18 de junho de 2022

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Human rights advocates respond to imposition of a State of Emergency in St. Catherine

Petchary's Blog

What our local media like to call “the crime monster” continues to haunt us all, stalking us – ever in our footsteps. Rather like the monster in the Netflix series “Stranger Things,” its presence is always palpable in some way or another. But unlike the sci-fi monster, crime doesn’t live in the “Upside Down.” It is very much in our right-way-up world. It is a daily reality for many Jamaicans.

After the broad-daylight mayhem in Spanish Town last week, Prime Minister Andrew Holness in an early morning press briefing declared a State of Emergency in St. Catherine, the large and densely populated parish of which Spanish Town is the Capital. The following day, a landmark ruling in the Supreme Court found that regulations governing the 2018 State of Public Emergency breached the constitutional rights of a claimant, who was held for several months without charge.

There has been much discussion…

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