#16Days “I Am A Woman, Hear Me Roar”

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Tweet From the People’s Parliament and Occupy Guyana [GT]     All photos by Shirlina Naager © Creative Commons

“Your silence will not protect you” Occupy Guyana [GT]

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Tweet     “The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. Your silence will not protect you. Because the machine will try to grind you into [...]

Rise in Power, my fellow Guyanese

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Tweet “After Georgie seh officer, officer I get shot, de officer didn’t tek he on. So Georgie now go fah raise up holding he ribs and I hear another shot. When I look at Georgie, I see a bullet to Georgie forehead, which in, he head had a big hole and blood running down.” Black [...]

Dark Days!

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Tweet These are the dark days, my love***. Business is at a standstill. Gold miners are not able to carry out their usual mad digging up and extraction of the precious metal (while protecting the rainforest btw. why don’t those white people understand that and give us the $$, damnit?!) Trucks of goods are blocked [...]

Occupy Guyana Diary Update 2

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Tweet Tuesday 21st August Last night was awesome. A friend who I’d been having some potentially friendship-damming differences with showed up at the Occupy GT camp for the 2nd night in a row and we talked. Another friend stopped by and promised to come back and give free massages to folks. Someone who had been [...]

Occupy Guyana – Diary update

Occupy Georgetown

Tweet     I stink. We have been peeing in the street, behind trees and in dank corners. I’ve had less than 5 good hours of sleep in the last 2 days and am fighting to keep my eyes open. The sun is white hot and even though I’m under an umbrella, I can feel [...]

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