LeJaun

I am that one guy who is always there. You may not see me, but know that I am seeing you. He/Him

[🇯🇲 Dudar es Traición ☭ @CdeKristov]

So with this big blackout... imagine if this was frequent (everyday) and intentional.

That's what Cubans have to live through. The US has decided that Cubans must suffer because the US doesn't like the Cuban gov't.

[🇯🇲 Dudar es Traición ☭ @CdeKristov]

If mosquito bite mi, mi buck mi toe, or mi drop mi food... a di dutty ship cause it

It bring crawsis come a wi island

[🇯🇲 Dudar es Traición ☭ @CdeKristov]

There's an unfortunate focus on the identity of leaders, rather than what they do with their political power (and specifically how they affect the demographics who they are made out to be the faces of).

[🇯🇲 Dudar es Traición ☭ @CdeKristov]

Hugh Shearer banned Walter Rodney from re-entering Jamaica then Forbes Burnham assassinated Walter Rodney in Guyana.

Hugh Shearer suppressed material in Jamaica that he feared would inspire Black pride, and Eric Williams repressed the Black Power movement in T&T.

[🇯🇲 Jamaica LANDS 🇯🇲 @LANDS_Ja]

There have been protests about both of these things. The fact that a killing occurred during a protest yesterday is even more unsettling.

At a time when there is a resurgence of interest in activism, such an incident will agitate people further.

[🇯🇲 Jamaica LANDS 🇯🇲 @LANDS_Ja]

Even outside of extrajudicial killings, we have been concerned that different curfew/lockdown measures impede law-abiding citizens from going about their business and making a living. https://t.co/omk7r0Lxpn

[🇯🇲 Jamaica LANDS 🇯🇲 @LANDS_Ja]

Many killings by police are reported as legitimate uses of force in situations where servicemembers' lives are threatened.

Without footage or evidence, the public is expected to take the JCF's word for it.

[🇯🇲 Jamaica LANDS 🇯🇲 @LANDS_Ja]

The rise in police killings is one of the things that we have been watching with concern.

Here is an excerpt from something we released shortly before the last general elections: https://t.co/3OlJFUqGeY

[Red Rackham @gunnerbeeks]

So the gov is scaling back on a public transport route because the private sector is complaining? You guys realize this means we are never getting the good reliable public transport system we been bawling for?

[Teben Bron @nigga_u_white]

The roads are terrible all round but the Kingston 6 roads will go through three cycles of "fix fast and mash up back" before the roads in other places fix once.

[🇯🇲 Dudar es Traición ☭ @CdeKristov]

The mass mobilisations you've been seeing in Bolivia over the years aren't something that you can replicate by simply being angry and outraged enough.

Behind those mobilisations are dozens of grassroots organisations with decades of history.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Rural indigenous communities have surrounded Evo Morales' residence to protect him. Leaked docs (attached below) show US armed forces & Bolivian police preparing a joint operation to kidnap him & massacre villagers.

"If we surrender now, how will our future generations live?"

[Kenyatta FORTIS4EVER Powell @kenyatta_pow]

The "ackshually, govt is spending too much on education or this or that other public good" argument is nonsense inuh, and is always deployed in service of one goal; hollowing out the state in precisely the areas that provide public goods for the benefit of the whole society.

[Island City Lab @islandcitylab]

Public transportation in the Kingston Metro Region is in crisis. Decades of car-dependent investments and policies have sidelined the JUTC, and now getting around the city is any combination of miserable, time-consuming or dangerous - but it doesn't have to be.

[Island City Lab @islandcitylab]

Parking is never free, the cost of developing and maintaining parking lots are embedded in the costs we pay for rent, goods and services. In this way pedestrians subsidize parking for motorists. Paying for parking forces only motorists to pay the costs of storing their vehicles.

[Suburb Septembriseur @primarycatdad]

Help if you're able

[Island City Lab @islandcitylab]

Historically the de-centering of Kingston, suburbanization and urban sprawl set the framework for the problem. By design, the concentration of the population shifted from the compact walkable urban core to sprawling, segregated, car-dependent suburbs in the surrounding parishes.

[Island City Lab @islandcitylab]

We can absolutely afford a compact, walkable mixed-use Kingston. What we cannot afford is wasteful, inefficient, car-dependent urban sprawl, no country can.

[🇯🇲 Jamaica LANDS 🇯🇲 @LANDS_Ja]

Our experiences of a global pandemic and Hurricane Melissa have made the question of what it means to be an essential worker ever more important.

What work is vital to the functioning of our society?

Join us for the State of Labour Dialogue on Sat May 2 at 6:00pm.

[🇯🇲 Dudar es Traición ☭ @CdeKristov]

Needless to say... those who can comfortably work from home and actually get work done should be allowed (by their employers) to.