Issues affecting the twin-island state of Trinidad & Tobago.
The net is a democratized space – all data created equal. Companies like Comcast and Digicel are interested in discriminating against customers' and websites' freedom to seek, create and share that data. That's a dictatorship. And when you don't respond to a dictatorship as soon as it rears its ugly head, it's almost always too late.
In the news, death threats have been sent to local investigative journalist Mark Bassant. These threats come after his investigation into the assassination of Trinidadian attorney Dana Seetahal SC. If you’re an everyday Trini, that means that our country has gone to the dogs. If you’re even just an aspiring journalist, that means a lot… Continue reading #ProtectThePress
On Tuesday April 29th, I found myself in maybe the most surreal human rights conversation in the world. At 3:30PM in the evening, I was approached by a bunch of Seventh-Day Adventists who say that removing buggery laws that create a hostile environment for LGBT people would not only infringe on their human rights, but… Continue reading These Rights Kills Christians
Earlier this week in the Lovely twin-isle of Trinidad & Tobago, renowned local artist LeRoy Clarke connected the ‘prevalence’ of homosexuality to a rise in crime in the nation. He’s claiming that young people entering gangs are initiated through sodomy and respond in their lives using the gun as an extension of their own masculinity.… Continue reading Contemplating the ‘Gay Gang’
Imagine yourself, mindlessly scrolling through facebook looking for the next YouTube video or funny comment (shouldn’t be too hard for most folks)… Only, in your simple social media travel you find a different kind of video. It’s not nyancat or Gangnam Style. It’s the forced confession of a man held in some basement somewhere, saying that… Continue reading Hang George Zimmerman
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