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Re: Rastafari complacency
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gleaner</div><div class="ubbcode-body">the Coral Gardens massacre on Black Thursday, the day before Good Friday 1963, and the<span style="font-weight: bold"> Back-o-Wall deportations of 1966, </span>on the grassroots level, the movement took on a greater participatory role in cultural, national and geo-political issues, concerning universal peace, love and harmony, race pride and African decolonisation </div></div>
Who was responsible for the Back o Wall deportations and the other atrocities in 1963 and 1966 ? And who was also responsible for the ban on books that were considered too black? Lets see if we can get some honest answers.
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Re: rastafari complacency
<span style="font-weight: bold"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">"Fifty years of experience has taught us that disunity has stymied our progress significantly." He adds succinctly, "Comfort made Rasta complacent."</div></div></span>
dem tink seh rastafari get complacent but that is mis-overstanding...
there is no one authoritative house of rastafari...
there are branches from the same root...
some are quietly doing works all over earth all the while some are speaking word sound & power on the four corners of the globe through the ancient african tradition of the griot;Comment
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Re: rastafari complacency
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think Rasta knows that changing the government or the corrupt culture is beyond their powers given their limited numbers and so they have opted out of it and have formed their own separate culture.</div></div>
well within the powers given the great numbers...i don't really consider it a "separate culture" since most live within the wider society...but yea certain ones like bobo hill have their own communities...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Some may call it complacency, but it might also be considered wisdom to know what you have the power to fight and change and what you do not.</div></div>
yea it's "one love" yet "arm in arms with arms we'll fight this likkle struggle"...
and never stop spreading love between my brothers and sisters....
and war inna babylon!!!
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Re: rastafari complacency
Of course I knew that the posters who were singing the praises of seaga would not respond to my other post. Because if they did ,they would have to face the inconvenient truth that the JLP administration and specifically seaga ,was responsible for the brutal and inhumane way in which the Rastas were deported from Back O wall. The Rastas got deported simply because most of them supported the PNP.
It is ironic that seaga’s justification for bulldozing the homes of the Rastsas was, “back o wall was the worst crime den in the country“. Forward to 2010 and the USA and others claim that seaga’s baby, Tivoli, is the mother of all garrisons and as we all know Tivoli almost suffered the same fate as its predecessor back o wall.
To add credence to my post here is a couple excerpts from different news papers concerning back o wall.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: guardian</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Seaga, who was born in the US to Jamaican parents of Lebanese origin, established Tivoli in 1965 after <span style="font-size: 17pt">ordering the bulldozing</span> of a slum known as Back O' Wall. Many of those <span style="font-size: 17pt">displaced were opponents of his JLP</span>; they moved east to places like Rockfort and McIntyre Villa (commonly known as Dunkirk) where their descendants retain loyalty to the PNP. </div></div> GUARDIAN
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: GLEANER</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> 1962, Edward Seaga became the West Kingston member of parliament, and Hutton said: "It has as its residents many persons of the Rastafarian faith. Some of the persons living in Back O' Wall came there from Pinnacle (the Sligoville community established by Leonard Howell which was destroyed by the police in 1954)." It was also a cultural hub where persons such as Lord Creator and Wilfred 'Jackie' Edwards visited. Prince Emmanuel, later King Emmanuel, founder of the Bobo Shanti Rastafarian order, lived and worked there.
Hutton said: "In 1963, the first bulldozing took place." The Tivoli houses which replaced the housing there were allocated to persons from outside the area, the original occupants of the land, over 3,000 persons, dispersing to Central Village, Riverton, August Town, and Warieka Hills.
In 1966, there was the biggest bulldozing, of some 800 shacks, in the 'Dungle' off Foreshore Road (now Marcus Garvey Drive).
Hutton noted that the <span style="font-size: 17pt">JLP started 'garrisonisation</span>',</div></div>
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Mr Seaga's autobiography enthralling
Mr Seaga's autobiography enthralling
KEN CHAPLIN
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
FORMER Prime Minister Edward Seaga made a comment at the launch of his autobiography: "My Life and Leadership, Volume II: The Hard Road Ahead", which should have been said long ago. "<span style="font-weight: bold">Jamaica needs a single vision with a single mission. We have this awful history, when one government is in power, they put in place policies to say this is what we have done. Then the next government tears down as much as possible to get the benefit of the electorate".</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">It takes a great deal of courage by Seaga to make such a statement. I can write without fear of contradiction that in the 37 years I served in the public service,<span style="font-style: italic"> both governments, whether Jamaica Labour Party or People's National Party, have been guilty of the unfortunate practice of cancelling some of each other's work.</span></span>
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I can outline four instances. Seaga prepared and got financial support from an international financial institution for a master plan for the commercial development of an area near the Coronation Market in his constituency. There was a change of government and the matter was laid to rest.</span>
<span style="font-style: italic">The PNP government had a housing development project in Central Kingston, a strong PNP constituency. Most of the houses were partially completed when there was a change of government and work on the project was abandoned. It was resuscitated when the PNP returned to power.</span>
<span style="font-style: italic">In 1984, the JLP government established JAMPRESS, a state news agency, to disseminate information on government programmes to local and overseas media, local ministries, overseas Jamaican embassies and high commissions and diplomatic missions based here. In the 1980s JAMPRESS, along with state news agencies in the Caribbean, Central America and South America, set up a regional news agency, ASIN, to exchange information on educational, cultural and economic matters designed to improve relationship among the countries. Two years after a change of government in 1989, the PNP closed down JAMPRESS, which I thought was a wrong move, as the agency was providing a necessary and excellent service. Journalistic ethics require me to state that I set up JAMPRESS and became its first editor-in-chief and executive chairman, so I was rather disappointed with its closure although I was not there at the time. My own belief is that it was closed only because it was set up by Seaga.</span>
<span style="font-style: italic">In 1987, the JLP government introduced an exchange rate regime of J$5.50 to US$1.00. This pegged exchange rate, according to Seaga in his book, played the leading role in stimulating the economy alsthough there were other factors which provided growth.</span>
However, when the exchange rate was liberalised by the succeeding PNP government, most people knew, as I do, that it crept up to the destabilised peak of more than $80 to US$1.00. In fact, as Seaga said, the exchange rate declined from $5.50 to US$1 to $20 to US$1 in two years under the PNP administration.
In a discussion on the book, Seaga argues strongly for the return of an exchange rate pegged to the US dollar. "Every country that does not have a pegged exchange rate in the Caribbean is struggling".
Having worked closely with Seaga as information officer when he was minister of development and welfare and minister of finance, and as press secretary when he was prime minister, tasked with writing his last press release,<span style="font-weight: bold"> I find Seaga's autobiography spot on. His interpretation of what caused the JLP to lose the 1989 general elections to the PNP after two terms is hard to dismiss.</span>
In his introduction to the autobiography, he says: With the pegged exchange rate and "the effective completion of the other prescribed reforms, the economy turned around to produce lower interest rates, low inflation, record job creation, reduced unemployment and robust growth. Economic growth, though still fragile, was successfully restored by 1987 after the most gruelling programme of adjustments ever undertaken by the country. But there was a price to be paid. Although health was restored, the bitter medicine was too strong for the body politic. Led by Michael Manley, the electorate was focused not on the benefits of the reforms that had restored economic strength after 15 years of incomparable hardships but on the loss of effective social services, which were the casualties of the last two decades."
<span style="font-weight: bold">Seaga explains three projects which he has fostered but was unable to complete:</span>
* <span style="font-weight: bold">Restoration of Port Royal</span>, one of the world's most treasured marine archaeological sites, largely by reclamation of 200 acres at Forth Augusta in Kingston Harbour, a project he has been associated with since the 1960s.
* <span style="font-weight: bold">Development of a giant freeport</span>, featuring trade, finance and manufacturing as well as tourism, to transform downtown Kingston into a booming area with thousands of new jobs. This would involve 200 acres of reclaimed land from the seas in Kingston Harbour, near Fort Augusta.
* A<span style="font-weight: bold"> mega reservoir</span> on the outskirts of the city to capture the overflow of the Rio Cobre which flows to waste. This could irrigate 12,000 acres of land.
Together, these three projects could create many thousands of jobs for the economic benefit of the south coast of Jamaica, now the most congested area of unemployment.
<span style="font-weight: bold">He says that finally there are two national projects of critical importance which continue to absorb him: restoring the pegged exchange rate to put the economy back on its feet; and a national museum for Jamaica, to build awareness of the rich multicultural heritage and create a vital bridge between the two Jamaicas.</span>
Already, I have gone well beyond a normal review. This is more like excepts from the book. I find <span style="font-weight: bold">"Edward Seaga My Life And Leadership Volume 11: Hard Road to Travel 1980-2008, </span>"enthralling and compelling" and would recommend it to anyone who can read and understand.
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Re: Mr Seaga's autobiography enthralling
Edward Seaga – My Life & Leadership Volume II: Hard Road to Travel 1980 – 2008 was released on August 27, 2010, and follows up on My Life & Leadership. Volume 1: Clash of Ideologies 1930-1980 which was released in January of this year.
The new Vol. II is available online @ Amazon and at bookshops islandwide. It was published by Macmillan Publishing, and is being distributed in Jamaica by The Novelty Trading Co. Ltd.Comment
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Re: rastafari complacency
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">misinformation dem ha of wat Rasta is about...
is much more dan locs an weed</div></div>
yes but the hypocritical j'can tourist board loves to push this image...using locksman in their commercials while downpressing the I dem in reality...
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