Oppose the UK – Jamaica prison deal
Activists in the UK are mobilizing against the Cameron government’s proposed diversion of foreign aid to build a new prison in Jamaica, and open a transatlantic export trade in inmates. A public...
View ArticleSlavery’s ghost: Prison imperialism, Jamaica, and the UK
Young boys in a Jamaican prison cell, 2007. Photo © Gary S. Chapman, from www.garyschapman.com This essay is dedicated, in humble gratitude, to the memory of Dr. Robert Carr. David Cameron is in...
View ArticleLiving in truth: Chelsea Manning in prison
Chelsea Manning in happier days, in male drag Little more than a week after the brutal liquidation of the brave Cameroonian gay activist Eric Ohena Lembembe this July, a trans* woman was killed in...
View ArticleCameron’s “imperial mentality”: A Caribbean perspective
Gifford (second from R) with J-FLAG activists in a 2010 Kingston protest Watch this video, from Jamaican TV, of an interview with British – Jamaican human rights lawyer Lord Anthony Gifford. As a...
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