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Archive for May 26th, 2010

26
May

State of Emergency in Jamaica: Citizen Media Follows the Standoff

By Janine Mendes-Franco from Global Voices

Home made barricades are manned by people armed with AK47s

Home made barricades are manned by people armed with AK47s (Credit: BBC Worldwide Flickr Photostream)

A study in extremes is perhaps how the last 24 hours in the Caribbean region could be adequately described: As Trinidad and Tobago peacefully went to the polls and elected its first female Prime MinisterJamaica was facing more violent unrest.

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26
May

TMP Editor on Al Jazeera

In the early hours of the morning of 7th May, as the results were coming in for the British General Election 2010. I appeared on Al Jazeera English News Channel to speak on two topics:

  1. Proportional Representation and what it means for far-right parties like the British National Party
  2. The Barking “Hodge vs Griffin” results from an anti-fascist perspective, I was billed as “Hope Not Hate” though I asked to be named a representative of “South London Anti-Fascist Group”

My debut on Al Jazeera is below, filmed and uploaded on to YouTube by a good colleague of mine and now on The Multicultural Politic for you to enjoy/lament/laugh at:

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