You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
George Jackson was assassinated in San Quentin prison on August 21, 1971. The following week, the prison released an inventory of the 99 books in his cell.
via 99books.freedomarchives.org
Track 4 on Blowout Comb, produced by Sulaiman and Butterfly, October 18, 1994.
And all that’s best of dark and bright/
Meet in her aspect and her eyes
… art, as an instrument of aliveness.
The August 14, 2021 M 7.2 Haiti earthquake occurred as the result of oblique reverse motion along the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone, ~125 km west of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. The earthquake occurred at shallow depths on either a reverse fault striking west and dipping to the north with a component of left-lateral slip, or a fault striking southeast and dipping to the southwest with a component of right-lateral slip. At the location of the earthquake, the local plate boundary is dominated by left-lateral strike slip motion and compression. The plate boundary in this location accommodates eastward, left-lateral motion of the Caribbean plate relative to the North America plate. Within this context, the earthquake likely occurred on the east-west striking, north dipping fault plane with a component of left-lateral slip.
via https://earthquake.usgs.gov
Earthquakes (1900 – 2019) https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/tectonic/images/caribbean_tsum.pdf
081521 : Le Nouvelliste – 1 297 décès, 5 700 blessés, plus de 13 000 maisons détruites, nouveau bilan provisoire du séisme.
Zora Neale Hurston said, “Like the dead-seeming cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me.” These “memories within” are the subsoil of my work. But memories and recollections won’t give me total access to the unwritten interior life of these people. Only the act of the imagination can help me.
The Site of Memory, Toni Morrison
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma, 2019. criterion collection.
John Wick: Chapter 3, Chad Stahelski, 2019. imdb.
Joker, Todd Phillips, 2019. imdb. criterion collection.
The Assassination of Haiti’s President by Edwidge Danticat, 071421.
[Haiti’s future] … offers much more appealing opportunities to poor and socially marginalized young men than to work as bodies and guns for hire for gang leaders, politicians, business people, oligarchs, and nefarious international forces, all of whom consider them ultimately disposable—a condition that they and the late President apparently shared.
… Vélina Elysée Charlier, Duclaire’s fellow-Petrochallenger and a member of the anti-corruption group Nou Pap Dòmi. She told me that she sees Moïse’s assassination as a denial of government accountability. “We, Haitians, have been robbed of the right to find justice and closure,” she said. “Jovenel was silenced. We will never have answers from him on Petrocaribe and the many massacres. That is a big blow to our fight against corruption and impunity.”
