We are witnessing in real time the dehumanization and criminalization of Caribbean people in order to justify US extrajudicial murders + forced disappearances in the Caribbean Sea. Though countries like Trinidad & Tobago are less than 7 miles (about 11km) away from Venezuela

Caribbean people have been safely fishing in our waters to feed their families and communities for hundreds of years and now our people are being told to stay close to shore to avoid the possibility of being bombed by the frigging US government and CIA in international waters....

When Lauryn Hill said “it could all be so simple”she wasn't lying. Reciprocity between two people who want something to work is so simple. It's as easy as breathing.

prayers for Jamaica. prayers for Haiti. prayers for the whole Caribbean.

My heart is bleeding for Jamaica 🇯🇲 making more socioeconomic progress than any other Caribbean country in the past 12+ years and finally on a sustainable social progress path…now this. This is why Climate Justice is the most important global policy imperative of our time.

A Support Jamaica website has been launched. SupportJamaica.gov.jm This is an official government of Jamaica online support portal.

NEW: An emergency meeting regarding Hurricane Melissa is being held in Brixton, south London, NEXT THURSDAY evening. 🙏🏾🇯🇲❤️ The event is being organised by social justice and anti-racism campaigner Lee Jasper (who is of Jamaican heritage.) Details below. 👇🏾

Many families are still out of contact. If you’ve been trying to reach loved ones with no success, please comment the area(s) you’re trying to reach. Let’s help each other share updates. I’ll also share this info on air.

NEW: Rastafari Movement UK Wellbeing is organising an event TODAY for urgent action for Jamaica. 🇯🇲❤️💛💚 For the most up to date information, support, guidance to support loved ones, how to volunteer, donate and be strong together. #HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica #Rastafari

It is important to note that the supportjamaica.gov.jm site also allows you to make reports of missing persons and register as a volunteer to assist in various ways. Please Fayval Williams help me to remind our colleagues to include period products/sanitary supplies for our

Hurricane Melissa Update: There’s a new Instagram page called Find My Family Ja, which is posting missing people in Jamaica to help locate them. 🇯🇲 🙏🏾 If you are looking for a loved one, please check their page.👇🏾 It was started by former Miss Jamaica Kaci Fennell-Shirley. 💕

I am so glad someone with her platform made this video. Because the one roof I saw intact in salt spring had the J anchor bolt and I just wish more people knew how important it is.

Ppl saying Christmas is cancelled and I couldn’t disagree more. It’s the SEASON OF GIVING! It couldn’t be more important. Let’s give, let’s donate, let’s package food, let’s help to build a home. Christmas is about family and unity. Let’s use this year to make others happy

It sounds funny until you realize that is a whole life philosophy in one sentence. You sit there with your giant emotional Stanley cup, refilling it all day, proud of yourself. You drink your 2 liters, 3 liters, you count your bottles like a good kid ticking boxes. On paper, you

A lot of people don’t think of themselves as active participants in their lives making choices. Not in dating, not in friendships, not in their jobs, not in any part of how they navigate the world. Things are just “happening to them”, they are doing nothing.

Palestine, Cuba, Haiti, Sudan, and the Congo

Sociology, history, anthropology, and psychology should be CONSTANT reminders everything is that deep. There's no coincidence our ruling class dismisses, and demonizes humanities and arts.

Dear Black people, We're at war with too many systems to still be at war with each other.

There’s been something particularly grown and sexy about turning 30 that I cannot really verbalize like life remains difficult but more manageable and just better in general and self love+boundaries kicks in on overdrive and the body gets more tea