The death toll from the catastrophic double earthquake in Venezuela is now at 1,430 people, with an incomprehensible 68,000 people still missing. This is now one of the worst natural disasters in human history.
While the U.S. has pledged $150 million in aid, this is not enough. It must immediately lift all remaining sanctions and not use this disaster to take further advantage of Venezuela.
Venezuela will need the help of the entire world to recover, but what it does not need is the boot of the U.S. empire on its neck.
If you have travelled to different Caribbean islands or even researched the region you would know EACH island has something UNIQUE to offer. Saying that a place has nothing to offer - is just ignorant.
Just admit you don’t read and know nothing about anywhere else in the world.
5 hours after the fete was supposed to end, traffic is not moving from the Heliport area all the way into Carenage. This is disgusting. Zero traffic management and nobody in authority obviously cares
The Mountaintop
We lift every voice and sing — The name of a Black Woman who stood at the mountaintop. With audacity that reflected off the glass ceilings that shattered when you spoke her name.
Kamala Devi Harris. You stood. Standing in the spirit of Shirley Chisolm, Unbought, Unbossed and Undenying.
You dreamed. The girl who would not be deferred and went on to write a letter to the world with a signature that now reads — It’s Possible.
It’s Possible for a Black girl from Oakland, California, to see the mountaintop. And when she gets there to take the world off her shoulders and sit. Sitting in the resilience of Fannie Lou Hammer, you took the world by Storm. Never going Rouge and letting anyone take you out of character.
You laughed. You filled rooms with hope and integrity and lit paths with perseverance. You opened. Doors that had been closed. You stepped — Over walls that had been built.
You climbed. The Mount Everest of expectations with a smile that sat at the intersection of joy and justice. Because a country built in spite of you, you stood in spite of.
You are the embodiment of what can be, unburdened by what has been. Rest in the knowing that you are ours.
We thank you for the view from your moutaintop.
Do NOT panic during this first part of the evening.
Rural counties report first because they have fewer votes to count -- tends to result in Republicans coming out to early leads.
Democratic count tends to come in later in the evening.
Keep Kamala and carry on a la.
People often romanticize “being in community” without realizing that community is formed and sustained through reciprocity — fulfilling mutual obligations to one another — and that this is sometimes inconvenient and taxing! But you can’t receive support without offering it