The theme for the protest is:
Stop the destruction of Barbuda.
Stop selling us back into slavery.
Keep your Judas Rass in Parliment.
Had enough of your BS money, money, money, sell, sell, sell stupidness. Leave us alone.
SIDS 4 Civil Society Organizations Forum Statement
Presentation at:
4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States
Charting the Course Toward Resilient Prosperity
27-30 May 2024; Antigua and Barbuda
Presented by:
Mr. John Mussington of Stronger Caribbean Together Network (SCT) and Barbuda Land Rights & Resources Committee
May 28, 2023 The Stronger Caribbean Together (SCT) Network, is composed of regional grassroots movements, indigenous, feminist, youth, environmental and legal advocacy NGOs, plus academics and partners from within and outside the region.
We came together to organize and resist the multiple and interconnected challenges people and ecosystems are exposed to all across SIDS. From Barbuda to San Andres and Providencia, Grenada, Haiti and beyond, our members live the reality of multidimensional vulnerabilities and intersectional violence.
We are witnesses to the fact that our situation is worsening because of catastrophic climate change, policies that increase social inequities, and historical injustices that have never been addressed.
Our conditions are not inevitable nor natural, but the consequence of actions and inactions by governments, international partners and the private sector, and we organize and mobilize for their redressal.
In particular, communities, territories and ecosystems across the region continue to be assailed by the impact of disaster capitalism, where state, private investors and creditors are profiting from catastrophic events and the economic fragility of our countries to reap unjust rewards on the back of a politics of dispossession, enclosure and marginalization.
This is happening right under our noses, here in Barbuda, since Hurricane Irma in 2017.
The ABAS Renewed Declaration for Resilient Prosperity, offers a stillborn hope as long as disaster capitalism is the playbook of local and international elites.
The SCT network wants to create a space of analysis and action against this problem, animated by the aspirations of climate, food, land and reparatory justice as pillars of a transformative agenda rooted in the right to self-determination and other fundamental rights of local communities and their territories.
Through support from the Open Society Foundations, we have created a virtual space of dialogue and knowledge exchange to empower and equip organizations to challenge local disaster capitalism projects and policies.
This regional and international exchange of ideas not only unifies the region but allows locals in the region to identify political, economic and historical patterns that are often construed as exceptions and seldom understood in their systemic nature.
With this project we are filling 3 gaps, namely: 1. The lack of a regional network and of an opportunity to reflect on the root causes of our challenges; 2. The lack of an accessible digital space for knowledge and information sharing and 3.
The limited access to legal advocacy and training. In fact, in the case of Barbuda, with the support of Garden Court Chambers and the Global Legal Action Network, a historical legal precedent was set, with the Privy Council ruling in 2024 in favour of two ordinary citizens of Antigua and Barbuda, giving them standing in the local courts to challenge the breach of their right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
We hope that thanks to the Escazu Agreement and the recently adopted Action Plan on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters, our precedent will become the norm across the entirety of the Caribbean.
The determination of Caribbean people standing stronger together is helping to preserve Barbuda’s cultural heritage and way of life but also serves as a beacon of hope for other indigenous and land defence cases, facing similar threats of exploitation, displacement, environmental disruption and pollution of water resources.
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Well Ddone Barbudans!
Love yall bad
We know these scumbags would have tried something to embarrass us. But all they did was embarrassing themselves. Where is the UPP with their protest action? The world is watching. Come and show your face.
@ lest we forget: ok I get it the barbudans are scum bag for not letting whiteness and Gaston servility to white monopoly capital domination enthrall them into gardeners and maids for white properties as reward for giving away the lands , do you have an institutional mind of whiteness being superior, I guess you believe that you are a lesser human being that your black self or black barbudans can’t own beach front. Funny how election is taught to us by politicians, the educated and the wealthy create our government or prime minister, they buy the election while the educated is used to opinionate the poor uneducated black masses into a desired out because they don’t have no political ideology, they only know flamboyant colors as they are adorn in. Our election system should have based on proportional representation instead of first pass the post system, because democracy is an enemy of the poor black masses since it’s inextricably linked to colonialism , so your loving party regardless of what it’s ideology on the campaign trail will immediately turn the police and tear gas on the citizens the day it gets into power, it’s like the changing of guard which remains the same, since all party here represent labor capitalism, none are socialist, when will resources be given to blacks who was left in poverty from slavery, our leaders are coconut brown outside and white inside, they are dealers not leaders
@ lest we forget: ok I get it the barbudans are scum bag for not letting whiteness and Gaston servility to white monopoly capital domination enthrall them into gardeners and maids for white properties as reward for giving away the lands , do you have an institutional mind of whiteness being superior to blacks? I guess you believe that you are a lesser human being, that your black self or black barbudans can’t own beach front. Funny how election is taught to us by politicians, the educated and the wealthy create our government or prime minister, they buy the election while the educated is used to opinionate the poor uneducated black masses into a desired outcome because they don’t have any political ideology, they only know flamboyant colors as they are adorn in. Our election system should have been based on proportional representation instead of first pass the post system, because democracy is an enemy of the poor black masses, since it’s inextricably linked to colonialism , so your loving party regardless of what it’s ideology on the campaign trail will immediately turn against the people and set the police and tear gas on the citizens the day it gets into power, it’s like the changing of guard which remains the same, since all party here represent labor capitalism, none are socialist, when will resources be given to blacks who was left in poverty from slavery, our leaders are coconut brown outside and white inside, they are dealers not leaders
@LessWe Forget.
‘Deracinated imbeciles, scumbags’ are the words thrown at the people of Barbuda, all because they wish to maintain the natural environment of their island. No, they are not embarrassing themselves, rather the clowns who wish to rape their land for personal gain. A hopeless, irredeemable cretin such as you, are forever lost in a pit of faecal idiocy
In which you are doomed to spend your life singing for your supper. You are a waste of time and space; reminds me of a 9th of 10 half-wit leader you know well.
@LessWe Forget.
‘Deracinated imbeciles, scumbags’ are the words thrown at the people of Barbuda, all because they wish to maintain the natural environment of their island. No, they are not embarrassing themselves, rather the clowns who wish to rape their land for personal gain. A hopeless, irredeemable cretin such as you, are forever lost in a pit of faecal idiocy
In which you are doomed to spend your life singing for your supper. You are a waste of time and space; reminds me of a 9th of 10 half-wit leader you know well.
Why is it you guys always do the spinning. I never called the Barbudans Scumbags. Just like the Prime Minister never called the Barbudans ‘deracinated imbeciles’. But that is how you operate. Spin things. A group of people of three or four doesn’t represent an entire people. And I have many Barbudan friends.
When ya dunce you’re not just broke, us stupid nf. Typical Barbudans
@LestWeForget – If these protesters, to which you referred as scumbags, are nationals of Antigua and Barbuda, there is no need to deny that you called Barbudans scumbags becauseyou did. It is beneath fairmindedness and basic decorum to denigrate another person just because he or she presents an opposing view. Admit it. You said it. It is now dishonest of you to come back and call it spin when you have been called our for the wrong you have said.
@Less We Forget.
Now your memory is failing you. Read your very own post of 29th May 2024. Your faulty memory is embarrassing to you. The half-witted PM has indeed referred in the past to Barbudans as deracinated imbeciles . Ask him. Birds of a feather really flock together. You have been well and truly rumbled.
WE STAND WITH THE PEOPLE OF BARBUDA.
In other words One for ALL.
If one is stupid, ALL are stupid. What a stupidity that you are suggesting. So one Antiguan is a murderer so all Antiguans are murderers. What brain do you guys really have.
@ Less We Forget, don’t try to backtrack on the nasty and vindictive words that you’ve used on the Barbudan’s.
As I’ve mentioned before about bad-minded people like you, always accepting whatever the authorities say to you without any discernment whatsoever.
Instead of denigrating the Barbudan’s for this demonstration, show them some respect for not rolling over in this most welcome stance.
Well done Barbudans and all who stood on solidarity. A demonstration of how effective the voice of the people can be.
While that narcissistic, lying, unscrupulous hypocrite making a show, the world saw a different narrative.
SIDS to me is just a bunch of whitewashed rabble with dressed up men and women feigning concern. Did anyone affiliated with SIDS do some local research? Did they speak to locals to get a sense of what is really going on? Of course not. Just go through the motions, smile and shake hands for the duration.
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