Arend (they) 🏳️⚧️🍉<p>Anyone know of any good <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/downtempo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>downtempo</span></a> acts? 'Cause I'm a downtempo kinda they/them with Caribbean roots, and I need some of that rhythm. </p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/edm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>edm</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/hiphop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hiphop</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/electronica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electronica</span></a></p>
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Working Class History<p>📣 New Podcast! "13 May 1935: Jamaica banana loaders strike" on @Spreaker <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caribbean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jamaica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jamaica</span></a><br><a href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13-may-1935-jamaica-banana-loaders-strike--65866841" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">spreaker.com/episode/13-may-19</span><span class="invisible">35-jamaica-banana-loaders-strike--65866841</span></a></p>
nadinestorying<p>I’m feeling immense gratitude that my work is in this relevant anthology and in such great company.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Book</span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/CaribbeanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CaribbeanLiterature</span></a></p>
nadinestorying<p>“The new anthology Writing For Our Lives, commissioned by The Cropper Foundation and published by Peekash Press, is a powerful collection of stories, poems, and essays that bring the climate crisis into sharp focus through the voices of those most affected yet least heard—the people and communities of the Caribbean.”</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjP1cVOKlv8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=FjP1cVOKlv</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Bocas2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bocas2025</span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BocasLitFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BocasLitFest</span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a></p>
abolitionmedia<p><strong>The Harmful Strategy of a Terrorist Empire!</strong></p><p></p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class="">The idea of the American authorities to classify several Haitian armed groups, including the VIV ANTANM coalition, as terrorist organizations, is nonsense.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">Such a solution is the alternative of a madman, a patient, an arrogant.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">It is an excessive reaction of American imperialism, which does not respond to the sovereignty of the Haitian people and their aspirations to a fundamental change.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">This project hides other objectives, other Machiavellian plans still unknown or at least a new test field for other imperialist experiences.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">Applauding such a maneuver, as made by certain media, relaying the self-satisfied remarks of André Michel, Pierre Espérance and others of their ilk, both in Haiti and abroad, to finally take advantage of it at the expense of the people, is malicious considerations.</span></span> </span></p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class="">Such behavior is characteristic of those who lack common sense and rush from disaster in disaster with insane enthusiasm.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">This clearly proves the propensity of certain reactionaries, both right and left, to act against the people and the country in general.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">How can we believe in such empty words, if it were not to support the presidential transitional council (CPT) and its government rejected and vomited by the majority of the population, faced with the conditions of a general riot which have long been met.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">The stake is clear, it is not for the Haitian people to live in peace.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">Far from it!</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">Rather, this is a claim to want to destroy the bases of a work marking Haitian resistance.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">There is objectively any link between the tragedies that take place today in Haiti and terrorist acts.</span></span></span></p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""> If we consider some samples of actions supported and financed by certain imperialist powers, they are more like terrorist acts.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">Let us take as an example the dissemination of toxic substances in the environment, capable of contaminating and eliminating a large number of human beings, as was the case on August 6 and 9, 1945, when the United States exploded two atomic bombs above the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">Nothing comparable to what is currently happening in Haiti!</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">Not to mention American support for the Israeli occupation forces and their criminal attacks against the Palestinian people, including the results in Gaza from October 7, 2023 to April 8, 2025 reached more than 50,000 dead and more than 115,000 injured.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">We could take many other examples, either against Cuba or against Venezuela.</span></span></span></p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""> Should we be careful not to confuse in the country’s current crisis, the scope of the phenomenon of insecurity?</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">Beyond the humanitarian tragedy, this is an expression of the moral and political bankruptcy of a traditional political class, an alleged tutoring powers.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">Only fanciful and demagogues in Haiti, even agents in the pay of Western criminals, could applaud the fact that such an empire, practicing selective justice, with a past of the most cruel terrorism and a multitude of accusations based on war crimes committed against innocent people, can today be concerned with our fate.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">What hypocrisy!</span></span></span></p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""> It is hardly the insecurity that imperialism wishes to fight in Haiti;</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">If this was the case, this would be easily seen through its investments in various social sectors to get us out of the darkness of underdevelopment.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">However, it is quite the opposite that is at work: it is the movements of the disadvantaged masses, demanding a rupture with the capitalist system which frightens them as long as it continues to plunder, dominate and colonize the country.</span></span> </span></p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class="">There is no doubt that this implementation takes into account the determination of the left-handed to block this destructive policy.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">The United States is not better placed to suggest, or even impose on us anything, because they are the ones who have endangered the life of the population.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">They are simply most convinced specialists in the destabilization strategy.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">The great accomplice of the notorious assassins for the execution of dirty tasks.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">If we arrived at this crossroads, the main culprits are none other than the Democratic or Republican governments of the United States, which boycotted the country to the point of constraining to destroy the Haitian armed forces, the main builder of the Republic of Haiti.</span></span></span></p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class="">In other words, if poverty and unemployment end up falling on the people, it is because the Americans push us towards the privatization of our businesses, thus resulting in the systematic destruction of infrastructure, hospitals, schools and factories, with many destroyed alleys, smashed and congested, and demolished and ruined houses.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">All this is due to the policies imposed by Washington on his ruling puppets in Port-au-Prince.</span></span> </span></p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class="">The strategy of qualifying the armed groups as terrorists will not change the situation and will not offer us a different country, released from exploitation, poverty and corruption.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">The real source of insecurity lies in capitalist shares in the country.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">Anyone who wishes to fight insecurity must also fight the source of insecurity, namely the capitalist policy of exploitation of the workers’ classes.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">One cannot fight one without fighting the other.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">This is the fate in which a people in search of national liberation cannot escape or ignore.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">With his current interest, Washington fears that the people will revers the situation.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">He uses insecurity to try to lock the resilience of the masses.</span></span> </span></p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class="">We must denounce this project since it is our future that will be stolen from us, under the terrorist state label.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">Why does Israel constantly massacre other peoples and the Western Empire remains its most faithful ally and has never accepted its condemnation as a terrorist state?</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">Allowing the United States to qualify the internal conflicts of the Haitian people as terrorist acts would amount to burying us alive, and could constitute the greatest obstacle to the reconstruction of our country.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">And, whether we like it or not, it would reveal itself to our disadvantage, to the advantage and the blessing of Washington at all costs.</span></span></span></p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class="">It is not difficult to understand why the United States offer us such servities with regard to a moribund power?</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">The only goal is to complete our destruction and desolation.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">Washington does not have the moral capacity to judge a country ravaged by internal conflicts and to qualify it as a terrorist state.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">In addition, he succeeded in standing against each other, as the fire President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wanted.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">This approach would lead us more quickly to a predictable and inevitable end.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">It is a harmful strategy of the terrorist empire aimed at undermining the very foundations of our society.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">The one who consists in seeing Haiti kneeling indefinitely at the feet of the Empire.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">This will suit our ruling class, for whom sovereignty, independence and dignity of a free people are not an absolute priority.</span></span> <span class=""><span class="">On this account, the Haitian people must continue to fight and resist to finally give their local and foreign enemies an unforgettable lesson in conviction and self -sacrifice!</span></span></span></p><p>source: <a href="https://haitiliberte.com/la-strategie-nefaste-dun-empire-terroriste/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Haiti Liberte</a></p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18722" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">18722</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anti-colonialism/" target="_blank">#antiColonialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anti-imperialism/" target="_blank">#antiImperialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/caribbean/" target="_blank">#caribbean</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/haiti/" target="_blank">#haiti</a></p>
RealJournalism<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> Is a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> Hotspot: Meet the Nonprofit Helping Protect It <a href="https://nicenews.com/environment/caribbean-biodiversity-nonprofit-rewild-protect/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nicenews.com/environment/carib</span><span class="invisible">bean-biodiversity-nonprofit-rewild-protect/</span></a></p>
Opinion | The Guardian US<p>Emboldened by Trump, the ‘liberal’ UK is giving free rein to its colonial impulses | Kenneth Mohammed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/21/caribbean-trump-democracy-colonialism-liberal-uk-immigration-us-cuba-commonwealth" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/global-develop</span><span class="invisible">ment/2025/apr/21/caribbean-trump-democracy-colonialism-liberal-uk-immigration-us-cuba-commonwealth</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Migrationanddevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Migrationanddevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/CommonwealthofNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommonwealthofNations</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Immigrationandasylum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Immigrationandasylum</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Trumpadministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpadministration</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Globaldevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Globaldevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/TrinidadandTobago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrinidadandTobago</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USforeignpolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USforeignpolicy</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Worldnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Worldnews</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Americas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americas</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USnews</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/UKnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKnews</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cuba</span></a></p>
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Holly<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/stem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stem</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insects</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ant</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/cool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cool</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Dominicanrepublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dominicanrepublic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> </p><p>First Caribbean 'dirt ant' found in 16-million-year-old amber which is really pretty metal when you think about it \m/ </p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-04-caribbean-dirt-ant-million-year.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-04-caribbea</span><span class="invisible">n-dirt-ant-million-year.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark</span></a></p>
abolitionmedia<p><strong>Haiti. CUTRASEPH Calls for General Uprising Against “Silent Genocide” Orchestrated by Imperialist Powers</strong></p><p></p><p>In a letter to Argentina’s Autonomous Workers’ Central (CTA), the Unitary Confederation of Public and Private Sector Workers of Haiti (CUTRASEPH) thanks its counterparts for their message of solidarity, while issuing an urgent call for a general uprising in Haiti.</p><p>According to CUTRASEPH, the country is the victim of a “silent genocide” perpetrated by foreign powers with the complicity of local leaders. “The Haitian people in struggle and the Executive Committee of CUTRASEPH express their deep gratitude for your message of solidarity and your support for the call for a general uprising,” the union wrote in this message signed by its main leaders, including Josué Mérilien, General Secretary, and Garry Lapierre, Secretary of Communications.</p><p>In this document, CUTRASEPH openly accuses national political authorities and their foreign allies of being at the origin of the current security crisis, which it describes as a “criminal plan aimed at systematically destabilizing and destroying the Haitian people.” “These [armed] groups are becoming political instruments at the service of a criminal plan that seeks to destroy the Haitian people, seize their wealth and erase their history as a rebel people,” the union denounces.</p><p>The text also evokes the historical responsibility of Western powers in the isolation and weakening of Haiti, due to its victorious anti-slavery revolution. “The slave-owning, racist and colonialist West still holds a grudge against Haiti for having made this historic gesture,” the message stresses, referring to the independence of 1804. Drawing a parallel with the events in Gaza, the trade union centre asks: “Why has the genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza aroused so much indignation […] while the genocide that is taking place in Haiti, under the auspices of the imperialist powers, leaves almost the entire international community indifferent?”</p><p>CUTRASEPH calls for active international solidarity to end what it describes as a situation of controlled collapse. A general mobilization is needed that involves the people, progressive organizations and all the friends of Haiti. “The solution to the Haitian crisis must come from the Haitians themselves, not from solutions imposed from outside,” the letter says.</p><p>Quoting by way of conclusion, a statement by the Argentine Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, during his visit to Haiti in 2005, recalls the symbolic and strategic significance of Haiti’s destiny: “The future of the peoples of Latin America, the Caribbean and all the peoples of the South depends on what happens today in Haiti.” CUTRASEPH affirms that this support from Argentina “revives consciences” and constitutes a lever to “break the wall of silence” erected around the daily suffering of the Haitian people.</p><p>Haiti Libre y Soberana, <a href="https://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2025/04/14/haiti-cutraseph-llama-a-un-levantamiento-general-contra-un-genocidio-silencioso-orquestado-por-las-potencias-imperialistas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Resumen Latinoamericano</a>, April 14, 2025.</p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18329" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">18329</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anti-imperialism/" target="_blank">#antiImperialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/caribbean/" target="_blank">#caribbean</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/cutraseph/" target="_blank">#CUTRASEPH</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/haiti/" target="_blank">#haiti</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/international-solidarity/" target="_blank">#internationalSolidarity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/uprising/" target="_blank">#uprising</a></p>
The Japan Times<p>A Latin American bid to select the next U.N. secretary-general is gaining steam, with growing support for a woman to take the post. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/10/world/latin-american-un-leader-candidates/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/</span><span class="invisible">10/world/latin-american-un-leader-candidates/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/worldnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldnews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/latinamerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>latinamerican</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/un" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>un</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/barbados" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>barbados</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/costarica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>costarica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colombia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colombia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caribbean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/southamera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>southamera</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/centralamerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>centralamerica</span></a></p>
The Japan Times<p>Hall of Fame pitcher and baseball analyst Pedro Martinez announced over social media that several of his family members were inside the nightclub that collapsed in the Dominican Republic. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/04/10/baseball/mlb/martinez-family-missing-roof-collapse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">4/10/baseball/mlb/martinez-family-missing-roof-collapse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/baseball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>baseball</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mlb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mlb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pedromartinez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pedromartinez</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/octaviodotel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>octaviodotel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tonyblanco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tonyblanco</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chunichidragons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chunichidragons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yokohamabaystars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yokohamabaystars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/orixbuffaloesdominicanrepublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orixbuffaloesdominicanrepublic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caribbean</span></a></p>
abolitionmedia<p><strong>The March in Friusa Failed and the Neo-Fascist Movement Was Divided</strong></p><p></p> <p><em>The Dominican far-right’s violent march on Friusa collapsed in disarray, exposing weakness in the movement as racist mobs failed to overrun a working-class community. However, the threat remains. This was not just a chaotic spectacle but a dangerous escalation in the far-right’s campaign to scapegoat Haitian immigrants and divide the working class.</em></p><p><strong><em>The following is a translation by Compas de la Diáspora of an <a class="" href="https://mst-rd.org/2025/04/01/la-marcha-de-friusa-fracaso-y-el-movimiento-neofascista-se-dividio/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">article </a> published by <a class="" href="https://mst-rd.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Movimiento Socialista de Trabajadores (MST) </a> analyzing the fascist march that occurred in Friusa, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic on March 30. Please consider<a class="" href="https://www.patreon.com/join/8438475" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> donating to MST </a> so they can continue doing this important work.</em></strong></p><p>Just as was warned by <a class="" href="https://mst-rd.org/2025/03/28/carta-abierta-al-presidente-abinader-a-proposito-de-la-marcha-fascista-a-friusa-autorizada-por-el-gobierno/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">leftist and social organizations </a>, the march called by the Dominican far right against the community of Friusa on March 30 ended in chaos, violence and destruction of community property. Both the government, through its spokesman <a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMhOuRcSSRg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Homero Figueroa </a>, as well as the paramilitary organization Antigua Orden Dominicana (AOD), which organized the march, are washing their hands and accusing alleged infiltrators of the violence, all in an attempt to do damage control and evade responsibility. According to the authorities, weapons were confiscated and <a class="" href="https://listindiario.com/la-republica/20250331/protesta-friusa-termino-32-personas-detenidas-armas-incautadas_851713.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">32 arrests were made </a>.</p><p>In order to understand what happened, it is essential to review how the call to protest developed, the contradictory expectations created by the neo-fascist agitation among its followers; to be aware of the sequence of events that day, and the reason why the march was divided, in order to finally draw some lessons from this experience to better prepare the resistance against the neo-fascist threat.</p><p><strong>Why did the Dominican far-right become obsessed with Friusa?</strong></p><p>El Distrito Municipal turístico Verón-Punta Cana tiene 138,919 habitantes según el Censo de 2022. Friusa es su principal barrio popular y obrero, con un área de aproximadamente 4 kilómetros cuadrados y su población se estima en alrededor de 40 mil personas. Es una comunidad muy dinámica, con mucha actividad comercial y en la que convive una mayoría dominicana con una minoría significativa de trabajadores inmigrantes haitianos. Incluye zonas residenciales de clase media y otras con una infraestructura más precaria y con menor acceso a los servicios públicos. El Hoyo de Friusa, Mata Mosquito, Altos de Friusa, son algunos sectores de Friusa. No es muy diferente de cualquier otro barrio de similares dimensiones en el país, si bien es un barrio en crecimiento por la demanda de fuerza de trabajo para la construcción y los servicios del polo turístico del Este.</p><p>The Verón-Punta Cana Municipal tourist District has 138,919 inhabitants according to the 2022 census. Friusa is its main popular and working class neighborhood, with an area of approximately 4 square kilometers with a population of roughly 40 thousand people. It is a very dynamic community, with a lot of commercial activity and where a Dominican majority coexists with a significant minority of Haitian immigrant workers. It includes middle-class residential areas and other areas with a more precarious infrastructure and less access to public services. El Hoyo de Friusa, Mata Mosquito and Altos de Friusa are some of the sectors within Friusa. It is not very different from any other neighborhood in the country with similar characteristics, although it is experiencing growth due to the demand of labor power for the construction and services sectors of the tourist pole in the Eastern region.</p><p>The symbolic importance given to the place by the far-right is related to statements made in 2021 and 2022 by the then director of the General Directorate of Migration (DGM), <a class="" href="https://hoy.com.do/director-migracion-si-no-nos-ponemos-en-esto-vamos-a-perder-nuestro-pais-sin-tirar-un-tiro/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Enrique García </a>, who assured that the Hoyo de Friusa neighborhood was inhabited entirely by Haitian immigrants and that the police could not enter the place without military support. In addition, he raved that the country could be lost to a separatist movement like that of Kosovo in the Balkans, as if immigrants were going to declare the “Republic of Friusa”. On June 1, 2022, <a class="" href="https://listindiario.com/la-republica/2022/06/01/723867/director-de-migracion-el-hoyo-de-friusa-es-la-esquina-mas-peligrosa-que-existe-en-el-pais.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">García </a> again assured that “the Hoyo de Friusa is the most dangerous corner that exists in the country”. García had already received AOD members in his office at the DGM in October 2020.</p><p>Those who live in Friusa know that the majority of the population there is Dominican, that it is not the most dangerous place in the country, and that the police not only “come in” but that there are police precincts there. But the neo-fascist movement turned Friusa into a symbol, calling for ethnic cleansing in order to “recover” that territory. The AOD fueled the myth that they would be the first Dominicans to enter Friusa. That is why Esmelín Santiago Matías, alias Alofoke, called on the demonstrators to <a class="" href="https://www.instagram.com/pr1ncematias/reel/DHcY41DACEn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">come armed </a> and to <a class="" href="https://diarioeco.com.do/nacionales/si-usted-tiene-su-pistola-llevela-dice-santiago-matias-a-quienes-participaran-en-marcha-de-antigua-orden/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">shoot </a> at any Haitian who crossed them. Subsequently, the AOD stated that the march would be “peaceful” and requested military support for the activity from the Ministry of Defense. According to the terms agreed between the AOD the government, it was to be a march between the Cruce de Friusa (Friusa Crossing) and Plaza Pichardo, from 2pm to 6 pm.</p><p>The AOD went from proposing the direct recovery of Friusa to saying that the authorities would recover Friusa. That shift sharpened the divisions within the ranks of the neo-fascist movement, in which several organizations and currents coexist, each with its own political and economic ambitions. Alofoke, who has his own political project, took advantage of the weaknesses and contradictions of the AOD to take over the leadership of the march.</p><p><strong>What happened on March 30?</strong></p><p>With almost no participation of locals, the march was made up of activists brought in buses and private vehicles from Santo Domingo, Santiago and other cities, parked in long lines near Cruce de Friusa, the starting point of the march.</p><p>The march started before some of the buses arrived, shortly after 2 p.m., led by Alofoke, who took the lead from AOD’s Angelo Vásquez. Since the authorized route along the Prolongación of España Avenue was barely 1.3 kilometers long, his vanguard reached a police barrier at the end of the route in approximately 25 minutes. The march had split into several parts due to lack of coordination and leadership disputes. After a struggle, some youths overcame a first National Police barrier, where they clashed with stones with a second, larger police contingent and burned community property. The bulk of the first section of the march opted to return to the starting point.</p><p>Upon reaching the police barrier, Alofoke argued that the march could not be limited to what had been authorized, that they could march wherever they wanted. Frenzied youth agreed that it was necessary to go to the Mata Mosquito neighborhood to “get the Haitians out”, expressing their dissatisfaction with doing a small march just half an hour long and returning to the buses. Another said: “what we need is a Ku Klux Klan in the Dominican Republic”. Some of the youths who were throwing rocks and burning property shouted at the dark-skinned police, calling them “Haitians”. The mob was inflamed by racial hatred.</p><p>Some police officers tried to mediate with the attackers, saying that their role was to protect them. Despite the fact that several of the demonstrators were armed with gasoline and weapons, the police officers limited themselves to throwing tear gas and spraying water on the property set on fire by the extremists. Between the police picket in Plaza Pichardo, where the march was supposed to end, and the Mata Mosquito neighborhood, there are only about 800 mts. Had the armed mob managed to get through to attack the people living there, there would have been many dead and wounded on both sides.</p><p>At 3 o’clock in the afternoon, the various sections into which the march had been divided were already in full retreat. However, upon arriving at Cruce de Friusa, marchers organized another onslaught to try to reach the Mata Mosquito neighborhood via an alternate route. A contingent of motorcycles confronted the repressive forces in front of the Texaco gas station, at the intersection of España and Estados Unidos avenues. They were dispersed with tear gas, which affected the surrounding businesses.</p><p>Hundreds of people took the alternate route to Mata Mosquito, along Estados Unidos Avenue and other roads parallel to the Prolongación of España Avenue. Their objective was to reach Mata Mosquito at all costs to “drive the Haitians out”. They arrived at the entrance of the neighborhood after a 1.5 km walk. The authorities had not sealed the alternate routes.</p><p>In Mata Mosquito people began to come out of their homes: men of different ages, both Dominicans and Haitians, with their work tools in hand; without falling for the provocations of the racists but ready not to retreat. The neo-fascists shouted slogans but did not dare to attack the community. After long minutes of tension, the police began to arrive and pushed back the extremists to establish a distance of a few dozen meters between them and the entrance of Mata Mosquito. Some neo-fascists complained that the police did not accompany them to “remove the Haitians”. It was already five o’clock in the afternoon, however, and little by little the extremists started to return to their homes, far away from Friusa.</p><p><strong>The march failed, but the threat continues</strong></p><p>The march failed. The AOD quickly lost control of the situation, leaving the march divided. The Friusa community repealed the extremists who came with their agenda of racial hatred. Mutual accusations and lamentations ensued among the neo-fascists, who were blaming each other for what happened. <a class="" href="https://x.com/RDSomosPueblo/status/1906486259268128785/video/1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Juvenal Brenes </a>, a businessman linked to the AOD, blamed influencers “looking for likes” for breaking the discipline of the march, pointing to Alofoke. Angelo Vásquez blamed the violence on “<a class="" href="https://noticiassin.com/infiltrados-de-sectores-politicos-provocaron-disturbios-en-friusa-1810467/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">infiltrators </a>” who allegedly acted after he and Alofoke had left the march. However, the violence started just 25 minutes after the march began. In an interview with Nuria Piera, Vasquez confessed that Alofoke was one of the <a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXeHTW-zrv0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">financiers and promoters of the march </a>. He cannot be considered an “infiltrator”. The AOD has been marching for years with Los Trinitarios; they cannot be considered “infiltrators” either.</p><p>The spokesman for the Presidency, <a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMhOuRcSSRg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Homero Figueroa </a>, also pointed to alleged infiltrators. If there are 32 people detained as the government says, then it’s impossible that they don’t know who the alleged “infiltrators” are, who sent them, etc. The AOD is lying to cover up the weakness of its own leadership in the divided neo-fascist movement. The government is lying to cover up its responsibility for having authorized a march whose organizers were calling for people to go armed and to murder people because of their nationality and race. It was known that the march would inevitably turn to violence against the people in Friusa.</p><p>The PLD and the FP parties, which supported the call, complained that a “peaceful march” had been repressed. The PLD, the FP and the PRM have a lot of experience repressing peaceful marches against mega-mining, against corruption and in favor of labor rights. The National Police has a long record of repression and atrocious crimes such as torture and executions, but reserves its brutality for protests that politically question the regime. In the case of the neo-fascist march at Friusa, they took measures to avoid deaths only out of political calculus, since the government determined that it was inconvenient for Punta Cana to be linked to tumultuous violence in the international press, <a class="" href="https://www.diariolibre.com/politica/congreso-nacional/2025/03/31/senador-advierte-que-marcha-en-el-hoyo-de-friusa-fue-imprudente/3054211" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">which would affect tourism </a>.</p><p>There is great bitterness from the marchers due to their own disorganization and division. Those who wanted to “expel the Haitians” regret not being able to reach Mata Mosquito; those who hoped to participate in a “peaceful march” are dismayed at the violent actions of their own comrades, and those who saw the police and military as their allies are disappointed that they were tear-gassed instead of helping them “get the migrants out”. Going forward, the AOD announced that it would call for a “national strike” and march on April 24, ironically on the anniversary of the 1965 anti-imperialist and anti-fascist revolution.</p><p>Although the ranks of neo-fascism are divided today, this movement continues to dangerously grow due to a range of factors — despite its leaders’ incompetence. Given the weakness of the socialist left, the far-right is positing itself as an alternative to break with the present system, with which many people are justifiably disgruntled. The government cooperates with the neo-Nazis of the AOD and gives them impunity, as a paramilitary arm of its racist repression, while corrupt businessmen and politicians finance them. The fascists, capitalizing on working people’s lack of hope in the face of a brutal capitalist system that deprives them of all their rights, scapegoat immigrant workers and offer the drug of hatred to those who join their ranks. It is necessary to organize a revolutionary alternative to channel the rejection of this inhuman system into a real struggle to expand the rights of the entire working class, from the point of view of our liberation. Only from the socialist left can we truly defend national sovereignty by opposing those who violate it, who are not the workers who build the hotels in Punta Cana, but rather the imperialist capital that plunders and ravages our environment while exploiting the working class.</p><p>One cannot confuse the right to protest – which the government restricts for workers and popular sectors – with the intention to lynch immigrants, which is not a right but a crime. Nor can freedom of speech be confused with a supposed right to incite ethnic cleansing and genocide. Fascism is much more than a set of ideas, it is a counterrevolutionary project of annihilation and crushing of the working class, and it is not enough to refute it at the level of ideas – we need to fight it.</p><p>In the days leading to the march, social organizations and leftist groups like the MST called upon the people of Friusa not to fall for the neo-fascist provocations, to turn the day of the march into a day of stoppage, to close the stores and avoid going out to the streets to minimize the risk of provocations and attacks by the racists. It’s been clearly proven that the police are not there to protect the popular communities, but rather to protect the fascists. That’s why it is necessary to self-organize from within the neighborhoods and workplaces to defend ourselves from the far-right.</p><p>On April 24, we have the obligation to organize a great national anti-imperialist and anti-fascist march, to show the country that the great April Revolution represents the opposite of what the Trujillo followers and racists represent. It is an opportunity to demonstrate that the streets belong to the people, not to the neo-Nazis.</p><p>source: <a href="https://blackagendareport.com/march-friusa-failed-and-neo-fascist-movement-was-divided" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black Agenda Report</a></p> <p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18216" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">18216</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/caribbean/" target="_blank">#caribbean</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/dominican-republic/" target="_blank">#dominicanRepublic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/fascism/" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#resistance</a></p>
The Japan Times<p>Rescue workers in the Dominican Republic said Wednesday they will wind down the search for survivors of a nightclub roof collapse that left scores of people dead after they found more bodies under the rubble. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/10/world/dominican-republic-nightclub-collapse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/</span><span class="invisible">10/world/dominican-republic-nightclub-collapse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/worldnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldnews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dominicanrepublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dominicanrepublic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caribbean</span></a></p>
Erasing 76 crimes<p>Queers and racialized people ‘don’t have the privilege of hiding’</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTQrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queerart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerart</span></a></p><p><a href="https://76crimes.com/2025/04/08/estelle-prudent-artist-queers-and-racialized-people-dont-have-the-privilege-of-hiding/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">76crimes.com/2025/04/08/estell</span><span class="invisible">e-prudent-artist-queers-and-racialized-people-dont-have-the-privilege-of-hiding/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WMPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WMPG</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunitySupportedRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunitySupportedRadio</span></a>, needs your HELP! If you can, please donate to their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Begathon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Begathon</span></a>! WMPG broadcasts <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemocracyNow</span></a> every weekday, and has some great volunteer DJs who play a variety of music (like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DJShaxx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DJShaxx</span></a>) -- and emphasize <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistoryMonth</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pride</span></a>, and more! They even have <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Latin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Latin</span></a> shows! And, of course, lots of community issues and commentary! Support Independent Radio!</p><p>FMI:<br><a href="https://www.wmpg.org/begathon-21st-march-april-1st/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wmpg.org/begathon-21st-march-a</span><span class="invisible">pril-1st/</span></a></p><p>To donate:<br>Call 207 874-3000, or visit <a href="https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/52763/donations/new" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">givecampus.com/campaigns/52763</span><span class="invisible">/donations/new</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WMPGFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WMPGFM</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CollegeRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CollegeRadio</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityRadio</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaineRadio</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diversity</span></a></p>
abolitionmedia<p><strong>What is Esencia and What Will Happen to Puerto Rico if This is Constructed?</strong></p><p></p> <p>Esencia is a massive $2 billion colonial development project aiming to seize over 2,000 acres of land, spanning three miles of beaches in Punta Melones, Cabo Rojo, by 2028. The United States has long justified its imperial presence in Puerto Rico under the guise of “progress” and “development.” With the complicity of a local government that prioritizes U.S. interests, policies like Act 60—which grants foreign investors the ability to evade local and federal taxes—serve Puerto Rico on a silver platter to wealthy developers, speculators, and those eager to claim and exploit a slice of “paradise.”</p><p>While Puerto Ricans face life-threatening austerity measures, the federal and local governments turn Puerto Rico into a neoliberal playground for foreigners. “Development” comes at the expense of Puerto Ricans’ lives, and their access to land, coasts, and cultural patrimony; it impedes their ability to work, thrive, and simply remain in the place they are from. “Development,” moreover, disregards the natural environment and the disruption of fragile ecosystems. For these projects, non-human life is reduced to a resource to be extracted.</p><p>Esencia may hide behind Puerto Rican architects and “environmentalists,” but it is led by the Reuben Brothers and Three Rules Capital, with the later addition of Mandarin Oriental. These real estate and hospitality magnates are the people who will benefit from the construction of over 900 “elite” residences, 5 hotels, 2 golf courses, a private airport, schools, a trauma center, and more. Esencia will not benefit local residents in any way: it seeks to create a private city within Cabo Rojo, built to segregate its wealthy foreigners from Puerto Ricans and protect them from the reality that Puerto Ricans face outside its walls: a crumbling infrastructure, food insecurity, and frequent power outages.</p><p>The Esencia project has a clear goal: to create a “paradise” in the Caribbean for foreigners while continuing to destroy the land and displace the native population of Puerto Rico. This project is designed to benefit the ultra rich and will control and limit the access of Puerto Ricans, who currently freely enjoy the lands, using them as recreational areas, coexisting respectfully alongside the plant and animal species that live there.</p><p>The project would severely impact the delicate ecology of our land and waters. The area for the proposed project is home to several plants, including the endemic Eugenia woodburyana, cobana negra, and bariaco, that serve as a habitat for many animals. Some animal species that would see their habitats eradicated include: 1) The yellow shouldered blackbird and the Puerto Rican nightjar, both endangered birds, whose habitat and breeding, nesting, and foraging areas would be affected by deforestation, 2) Antillean manatee, who can be found in the marine areas such as Caño Boquerón, 3) Sea turtles, who can be kept from nesting on the beach by artificial light and can become disoriented. These precious ecosystems sit on Specially Protected-Ecological Rustic Soil, with over 100 identified Taíno archaeological sites that have been preserved. Construction of this luxury project would also demolish and appropriate these historic sites.</p><p>Esencia’s greenwashing efforts and supposed cultural respect and community involvement cannot deceive Puerto Ricans, who know the results of many other development projects that have taken over the coasts and lands. Esencia’s developers claim that the project will protect environmental conditions. One example of how these claims are unsubstantiated is that Esencia includes 2 golf courses in its calculation of green areas. Golf courses are not green areas and they are not ecosystems – they are leveled and highly manicured areas that require large amounts of water. They do not provide shelter, nesting grounds, or food for the local species. They are a direct habitat disruption to countless fauna and flora.</p><p>Esencia also states that it will support archeological digs and build a museum within the project’s borders. Cabo Rojo is the town with the highest documented density of archeological deposits on the island. Esencia’s plan to appropriate these historical materials is a rampant violation of Puerto Ricans’ right to their ancestral patrimony. The lands, beaches, and Taíno historical artifacts should be stewarded by the Puerto Rican people, not owned by multimillionaires.</p><p>Esencia also claims that it will develop Cabo Rojo’s industries and create employment. However, Esencia will benefit from tax exemption, an advantage that local industries do not have. Instead of supporting local workers and businesses, this project will affect their livelihoods: for instance, many fishermen in the area will lose their access to the ocean. If anything, Esencia will foster precarious labor in the service industry, thereby deepening the dependency economy and furthering legacies of slavery and colonialism.</p><p>Furthermore, Esencia, like other resorts in Puerto Rico, takes away basic services from Puerto Ricans. When tourists and foreigners come to Puerto Rico, water, electricity, and other resources are strained and directed to these areas and away from the native population. A clear example of this can be seen as the project intends to build a trauma center for the resort; meanwhile, Puerto Rico is experiencing a health crisis, exacerbated by La Junta, due to loss of funding for hospitals across the archipelago. This has left many areas, like Vieques, without a single hospital.</p><p>Locals, who already endure the crushing weight of high costs of living because of the colonial-capitalist system imposed on Puerto Rico, cannot afford for this project to come to fruition. The only people who will benefit from this project are the rich and powerful who profit from the exploitation of our land and nation. The local Puerto Ricans will face displacement and the destruction of their lands.</p><p>In solidarity with the many groups resisting Esencia and other similar development projects across the archipelago, we demand that the Office of Permit Management, the Department of Natural Resources, the Cultural Institute of Puerto Rico, and the Autonomous Municipality of Cabo Rojo:</p><ol><li><strong>Revoke the permit and stop the permit granting process now. </strong></li><li><strong>Ensure that the lands are not intervened upon in any way. </strong></li><li><strong>Heed and study our amply documented claims and materials, which have already been submitted. </strong></li><li><strong>Conduct a transparent investigation process where directly affected communities and specialists have prioritized participation. </strong></li></ol><p>Puerto Ricans struggle against gentrification and displacement every single day, and the construction of Esencia would only add to the millions of our people uprooted and displaced from their homes. We must do everything in our power to stop this project from happening. Otherwise, we will surely see a Puerto Rico without Puerto Ricans.</p><p>Join a revolutionary Puerto Rican organization today and fight for our land back!</p><p>Follow @comiteesencia on Instagram to stay updated and sign the petition using the link in our bio.</p><p><strong>Sources: </strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://hotelsmag.com/news/mandarin-oriental-to-open-luxury-resort-residences-in-puerto-rico/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kathakali Nandi, “Mandarin Oriental to open luxury resort, residences in Puerto Rico,” <em>Hotels</em>, January 24, 2025. </a></li><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/2396693497351709" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tatyana.trujillo, “POV los realtors . . . “ <em>Facebook</em>, January 2025.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/v6R1dWyqYeI?si=lWMAjQ7O23YdxQtR" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jaime Torres Torres, “La verdad sobre el Proyecto Esencia en Cabo Rojo.” Presa Sin Censura, <em>Youtube</em>, January 2025. </a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SxfGTmt4us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Plan de Contigencia, “Nota al Calce: No a Esencia.” <em>Youtube</em>, February 2025. </a></li><li><a href="https://www.todaspr.com/esencia-cabo-rojo-feminista-anticapitalista-antirracista-lgbtiq/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Beatriz Llenin Figueroa, La lucha contra “Esencia” es también feminista, anticapitalista, antirracista y LGBTIQ+” <em>Todas</em>, March 4, 2025. </a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQiMZa7x76I" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bianca Graulau, “Will Puerto Ricans Lose Access to Their Own Beaches?” <em>Youtube</em>, February 2025. </a></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0Aw5aD_rf4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Reniel Rodriguez Ramos, “ El Proyecto Esencia Amenaza Sitios Arqueológicos en Cabo Rojo.” <em>Youtube</em>, March 2025.</a></p><p>source: <a href="https://diasporapalantecollective.org/what-is-esencia-and-what-will-happen-to-puerto-rico-if-this-is-constructed/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Diaspora Palante Collective</a></p> <p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17866" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">17866</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/caribbean/" target="_blank">#caribbean</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/colonialism/" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/imperialism/" target="_blank">#imperialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/puerto-rico/" target="_blank">#puertoRico</a></p>
Wayne Moran Photography<p>Boquerón State Forest, is a vast natural reserve spanning over 5,000 acres across the municipalities of Cabo Rojo, Lajas, and Mayagüez in Puerto Rico. Established in 1918, it is one of the island's oldest forest reserves, dedicated to preserving diverse ecosystems, including mangrove forests, limestone cliffs</p><p><a href="https://fineartamerica.com/featured/boqueron-state-forest-western-puerto-rico-wayne-moran.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fineartamerica.com/featured/bo</span><span class="invisible">queron-state-forest-western-puerto-rico-wayne-moran.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://photog.social/tags/Boquer%C3%B3n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boquerón</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/puertorico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>puertorico</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Beach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beach</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landscape</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/travelphotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travelphotography</span></a></p><p><a href="https://photog.social/tags/AYearForArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AYearForArt</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/buyintoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>buyintoArt</span></a></p>
riot<p><span>Damn, I've been productive today with cleaning, vacuuming, laundry and dishes. Now it's time to enjoy the remainder of the sun before I meet up with the family to go out and eat.<br><br>Some music to see me off - A Favor del Viento by Asere:<br><br>YouTube: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpV4-x0p0r8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpV4-x0p0r8</a><span><br><br>Invidious: </span><a href="https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CpV4-x0p0r8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CpV4-x0p0r8</a><span><br><br></span><a href="https://sharkey.world/tags/asere" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#asere</a> <a href="https://sharkey.world/tags/SonCubano" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SonCubano</a> <a href="https://sharkey.world/tags/caribbean" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#caribbean</a> <a href="https://sharkey.world/tags/latin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#latin</a> <a href="https://sharkey.world/tags/salsa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#salsa</a> <a href="https://sharkey.world/tags/music" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a></p>
DJ VinylTouch<p>700 Songs in 20 minutes.... As someone said. It's We Bleed Soca Saturdays, March 22, 2025 on <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Twitch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Twitch</span></a></span>! I'm on <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@4pm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>4pm</span></a></span> (twitch.tv/djvinyltouch) 🍺</p><p>Join us this Saturday as we bring you 6 plus hours of Soca music from Trinidad, Barbados, the Virgin Islands, Grenada, Guyana, St Vincent and more as we kick start your saturday.</p><p>We Bleed Soca always digs deep in the crates to bring you the vibes! </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dj" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dj</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/soca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>soca</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/twitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twitch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/twitchdjs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twitchdjs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caribbean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webleedsocasaturdays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webleedsocasaturdays</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grenada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grenada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/barbados" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>barbados</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/guyana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guyana</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stvincent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stvincent</span></a></p>
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