MALLS
Some market housing, some government housing, some basic clothing places (with far fewer choices than now). Maybe police sub stations, roof gardens, places to eat very local, place to walk as we do now. No AC. Knock openings in walls for cross ventilation. These places will be demonstration for how to have some class on 80% less fuel. Knock holes in the ceiling to provide some 2 story spaces. It has to be a government scheme--partnering with business with the government in control. Th profit motive doesn't belong in this at all.
Saturday, May 9, 2020
Friday, May 8, 2020
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Marcus Garvey history is so fascinating, so powerful, that we have to marvel at how so few people today are aware of it.
Being partly blind might not be the only reason why I don't read. As to remembering what little I read, that's another thing I can't explain.
But let's propose that Marcus Garvey was the greatest visionary and organizer for the African world that has ever lived.
Scrolling down through the articles here will undoubtedly take you to an article or two that sums up the history in a short version that is better than nothing.
Up there among the most useful publications is "The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey" by his widow, Amy Jacques Garvey. Professors Emeritus Rupert Lewis and Robert Hill are looked on as leading authorities on Garvey history. There are videos and documentaries in great volume, and an online search on Marcus Garvey will yield a lot of instructive material.
But there is another, usually forgotten, aspect to Garvey's history, and that concerns where he was born and educated. That place is St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica.
St. Ann's Bay is also exceptional. Columbus stumble onto the Caribbean in the 1490's, thinking he had circled the world and arrived in India. Thus the name West Indies (I think). He was stranded in Santa Gloria (St. Ann's Bay) for two years, and three of his ships are still buried there. It was the first capital for the Spanish, and so is referred to as Jamaica's first capital (despite the British take over from the Spanish in 1655, and never having regarded it as THEIR capital. That little bit of confusion helps to cloud and obfuscate the entire history of "Santa Gloria."
St. Ann's Bay seems to have been a respectable port town for the British, and its location in the exact center of the north coast also made it a reliable location for regional governance along at least half the northern coast. It is therefore the capital of St. Ann parish, one of 14 parishes that divide the nation.
But St. Ann's Bay has fallen on hard times. The decision from the 1960's to invest major resources on the sun and beach hotel-based tourism in neighboring Ocho Rios led to rapid and profound decline of once proud St. Ann's Bay. Although Marcus Garvey's remains were exumed and returned to Jamaica from London in the 60's, and he was made Jamaica's First National Hero, Jamaica's governance system disregarded his essential vision for a great African Unity. Continental Africa's spate of national independence was largely inspired by Garveyism, but there, too, his esential message of self-help succumbed to globalist, neocolonial memes. All of this is reflected in the utter disregard for Garvey heritage in the town of his birth.
My hope is to make Garveyism reflect in the way St. Ann's Bay sees itself. I argue that if we want to interpret Garvey's early influences, we must preserve the physical, visible infrastructure that he grew up with, and not just allow it to be demolished for easy short term gain by National-Chinese economic imperialism that has already devastated that "material culture" remaining from Garvey's time.
THIRD WORLD FIRST
I believe the world order has to be recreated in the image of the third world with a topping of first world assets and approaches. Yet it is vainly attempting, if anything, to be just the opposite. Unaffordable and unsustainable. But it takes someone with a feeling for the land--not a city guy--to wrap his mind around that.
I believe the world order has to be recreated in the image of the third world with a topping of first world assets and approaches. Yet it is vainly attempting, if anything, to be just the opposite. Unaffordable and unsustainable. But it takes someone with a feeling for the land--not a city guy--to wrap his mind around that.
Thursday, May 7, 2020
ALL JOBS ARE NECESSARY
{Keep telling yourself, “All jobs are necessary to keep the economy operating. We need to maintain sufficient ‘demand.'” This includes university and other research projects that are just plain silly. We have had a lot of people researching Carbon Capture and Storage for a long time, not to mention other “green” ideas. These are just as necessary as massage parlors, gyms, and day care centers.}
But you ought to be able to change how the jobs funtion by tweaking them to be more in conformity with an overarching systems approach.
But you ought to be able to change how the jobs funtion by tweaking them to be more in conformity with an overarching systems approach.
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
KUDOS TO THE PM, WOODEN ARCHITECTURE, ARTIST HELP, ELIKER, SAB, FODDER, HAMILTON
2020, the year of perfect vision. So auspicious a year for vision will never come again.
People are confined, worldwide, as has never happened before in our lives.
It is possible that the month of April is the crisis month for determine which way the world goes from here on.
PLEASE LET THE ARTISTS HELP
The Jamaican Prime Minister
Mr. Andrew Holness has handled himself well on many occasions, and his handling of the COVID crisis seems to be an example of this.
The main way in which SAB can assert its Garveyite heritage could be to preserve it's vernacular wooden architecture that date from his time. It is significant that he visited several Central American where the Caribbean architectural heritage had been transplanted due to migration to work with the United Fruit Company and build the Panama Canal.
Guatemala.
and are He seems very comfortable with African leaders
He is generally respected on the international stage
He avoids divisionist policies
ORDER
uplift
a sense of their heritage
He has helped to maintain the British Governor general and Custodes establishment
He seems to be someone who appreciate the volunteer governance systems we all advocate.
Wooden architecture is what distinguishes Jamaica' heritage architecture from the stucco emphasis of our Hispanic neighbors. But even among those neighbors, our African brethren stick to wood where possible. Their structures are in the vernacular wooden style of Jamaican and British Caribbean tradition. (JCHS)
Namibia has a MG Way, as does SAB
Namibia's entire coast is a marine sanctuary, as could be St. Ann's.
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Dear Friends of SAB,
the hospital
Emergency beds
Emergency measures to keep a historic treasure could also provide reassurance and a can do sense of purpose
work at home--agriculture
you are clearly knowlrdgeable
We do what we can from abroad with our various resources--nmot all of them monetary.
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To regularize squatters, we could look at a way to buy heritage architecture, maintain and preserve the exterior, subdivide the interiors into well designed micro units with their own bathroom. The compost would help to build nutrition deep in the abandoned mining pits.
STACKING ISSUES
Justin Elicker
Poor places to partner with rich places
Partner with Mayor Belnavis
Community Tourism
EPA, New Haven, TTT, SAB all, have in common inequality and need for stronger neighborhoods, and better economic integration.
The same thrust for inner city US needs to be made in SAB
I grew up in Priory with the Pinks during the Second World War, and I know what thrift is like.
The whole iof SAB is Marcus Garvey Heritage
Just telling tourists about him, with none of the built environment he grew up with and that formed his values is a poor substitute for preserving evry last bit of that heritage remaining, as an interpretive asset for Garvey studies and tourism.
Dear (Custos)
Thanks again for your response to my last message.
The old barber shop looks sturdy beyond all odds, having lost so much of its sheathing.
being such a small structure, it could be key to gaining momentum for a grant writing preservation project for St. Ann's bay.
Funders for untested project like to see even a tokemn example of self help before they launch into major funding
I founded an organization in a low income minority city in (wehat grew to be) Silicon Valley.
Mayor Elicker
HELPING TO CLARIFY AND STRENGTHEN AMERICAN CULTURAL INTERVENTION
Nevis
the identical British colonial heritage--which requires attention to Jamaica"s colonial heritage
The issue of squatters in the Cloisters--can the church engage in a property buying program to relocate Cloister squatters into
Ask Hugh Lyon where
How would we fund him if we used his land?
Doris Gross?
(China and destruction of heritage)--ABLE TO IDENTIFY WITH THE aFRICAN CONTINENT IN THIS REGARD
But China is shut down. Whatever it contributed to jobs might be compromised
Urgent need for community tourism
Jamaica based
Modernism that uses massive amounts of concrete
damage to landscape
dust and debris
energy
climate
preservation of embedded materials
CAN PAST EXPERIENCE OF BOARD MEMBERS QUALIFY AS TRACK RECORD?
ONLY DOING THIS BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WILL
aesthetic tending toward hardness
this takes it somewhat away from national competition to one of concern for the global environment
the US would be positioned not so much to oppose China as to set a different example, present an alternate vision
Hamilton and the Caribbean roots of US heritage
English speaking heritage is strengthened by closer ties to the English speaking Caribbean--creating a hub of strength that can contribute beyond its boundaries.
Lisa Hannah
compost toilet
Compost service
cannabis services
lab
remove duty
cultural capital of the world
can't have it all ways (revise foreign policy)
cultural landscape
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