On this day in 1919 Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata was assassinated by government forces in Morelos after an ambush.

"I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees."

https://x.com/jacobin/status/1910301744929665108

#Mexico

#history #blackhistory #blackmastodon @blackmastodon @BLKNewsNow @blackvoices @politics
@UnicornRiot
#tiktok #cdnpoli #geopolitics #africa #cuba #venezuela #nicaragua #bolivia #haiti #jamaica

#SilentSunday
#Jamaica
#Caribbean

#OceanCleanup #Jamaica #Update

"Interceptor 011 Catch in Kingston, Jamaica #shorts" [ ± 1min]
by theoceancleanuo [2024, Feb 19]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sV3mcyDzcCU

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature

Bunny Lee and Max Romeo explain the origine of ska.

#Music
#Reggae
#Ska
#Jamaica

#OceanCleanup #Jamaica

"Tackling Plastic Pollution in Kingston, Jamaica: Our biggest Interceptor yet"
by The Ocean Cleanup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfXl5rqx6m8

Quote by TOC:
"Feb 25, 2025
The Ocean Cleanup has partnered with Clean Harbours Jamaica and the GraceKennedy Foundation to deploy a range of Interceptors throughout Kingston’s drainage gullies, aiming to prevent an estimated 1000 tons of trash flowing yearly into Kingston Harbour, and further into our oceans.
Interceptor 015 is the latest deployment in Jamaica, deployed in November 2024. Here’s the story of its deployment.

Time stamps
00:00 intro
00:35 Sandy Gully: project site and the problem
01:50 Contribution of the local community
04:51 Installation of Interceptor 015 process
08:30 Interceptor impact on the local communities
10:05 The impact ( first trash catch)
13:06 the next steps

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature

https://www.europesays.com/1889241/ The Caribbean’s New Hub For Music, Technology & Collaboration #america #Dancehall #FutureOfMusic #IslandMusic #IslandMusicConference #Jamaica #KINGSTON #KingstonJamaica #reggae #science #shaggy #technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA

"Jamaican Art: Then and Now," co-authored by Petrine Archer-Straw and Kim Robinson is a compressive exploration of Jamaica’s rich artistic heritage. #History #ArtHistory #Caribbean #Jamaica #JamaicanArt #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-504-en/

New documentary highlights impact of Jamaican artists on Canadian music
Play It Loud! How Toronto Got Soul documents the tremendous impact immigrants from Jamaica had on the Canadian music scene in the '60s and '70s, and the barriers many of the musicians faced.
#music #culture #immigration #Toronto #Jamaica #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/documentary-play-it-loud-jamaican-music-on-canadian-culture-1.7462550?cmp=rss

Another awesome reggae track, this time from 1978 (Gregory Isaacs, himself): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCcLaSM4cM0

This is really great: #Reggae #Jamaica #BigYouth #TrojanRecords #Dub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgtTKqtTGGo

White Teeth. By Zadie Smith.

You are three multigenerational families, mostly immigrants from Britain’s colonies, living in London and trying to variously to embrace and reject the past, which has ill-prepared your children to cope the very modern world.
CW: hate speech

3 of 5 library cats .

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #india #jamaica #britain #colonization

https://www.europesays.com/1833128/ Powerful earthquake in Caribbean triggers brief tsunami alerts, no reports of significant damage #america #Caribbean #earthquake #Jamaica #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews #VirginIslands

When he was growing up, Marley looked so different from his black family that he was often known as ‘the German’, because in contrast to them he looked somewhat European. Feeling an outsider in both the black and white communities, his  isolation became the driving force behind his will to succeed. 2/2

Robert (Bob) Nesta Marley was born on 6 February 1945 at the farm of his maternal grandfather in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, to Norval Sinclair Marley, a 50 year old British white man from East Sussex, who claimed to be ex-naval officer, and 18-year-old gospel singer Cedella Booker. 1/2

Trenchtown Rock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJRe7niAxdU

Happy Reggae Month and Blessed Earthstrong to the Crown Prince of Reggae, Dennis Emmanuel Brown CD, who was born on February 1, 1957. We still miss you.

His flourishing career began at age 12 or 13 when he recorded his first hit “No Man Is an Island” for Jamaican record producer Clement Seymour “Coxsone” Dodd.

https://dennisbrown.bandcamp.com/album/no-man-is-an-island

#Reggae
#Music
#Jamaica
#Caribbean

'When the Dead Return: On #jamaica 's #Duppies'... https://crimereads.com/when-the-dead-return-on-jamaicas-duppies/ #fortean