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DEAR EDITOR,
At the Recently Concluded Exhibition “From Columbus to Castro” and the screening of the WAR documentary hosted by the Roots and Culture Gallery New York at the prestigious People’s Forum New York, July 13th – 14th. The event brought together people of various Nationalities and Guyanese living in the USA.
The exhibition featured the works of Guyanese Artists Gary Thomas, Dudley Charles, Linden Jemmott and myself and the late Omowalle Lumumba and Winston Strick in both categories painting and sculpture. The exhibition was both inspirational and motivational, a reintegration of the history of the Region via the Visual Arts from the perspective of the Artists.
Columbus’s arrival in the “new world” has been described as the worst demographic disaster to have occurred in Human History; in which over 100 million Indigenous inhabitants in less than 70 years were exterminated by way of warfare, diseases and forced labour, giving way to the horrors of the Atlantic Slave Trade in which millions of Africans were enslaved and brought to the Caribbean and the Americas to enrich and build the prosperous European Empires.
Africa’s Agricultural sector was abandoned and fell into ruin as in South America and the African Continent divided among the European Powers. Exhibits displayed in sequence highlighted the part played by the enslaved Africans in the Humanization of the Guyanese Landscape with the 1763 Revolt having kindled the 1776 American Independence Declaration, the Haitian Revolution of 1791 – 1802 and Latin American Wars of Independence of 1808 onward. Climaxing with the Cuban Revolution of January 1959. The “Betrayal of the American Revolution” another exhibit traced US Intervention and Imperialist expansion within the Region.
The printed and electronic media were present and the Director of the Roots and Culture Gallery Mr. Clairmont Chung also producer and director of the documentary WAR came in for high praise as well as Guyana’s Cultural Ambassadors Gary Thomas, Dudley Charles, and Desmond Alli.
On the second day of the activity, the screening of the documentary WAR was filled to capacity. It dealt with the turbulent years of the Burnham Dictatorship, with events leading up to Assassination of the Internationally acclaimed Guyanese Historian and Leader of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) and the Aftermath. It was not a question and answer session but more of a conversation in which members of the audience expressed shock, dismayed, and felt the WPA leadership had betrayed Walter Rodney by becoming “PNC bedfellows” fully aware that the PNC was responsible for Walter’s Assassination.
No one can account for the actions of the WPA Leadership only they themselves. While it is a fact that good men and women once in power become arrogant, contemptuous, greedy and insensitive to the people who elect them to public office. A classic example pointed out by members who campaigned in the winter to raise funds for the APNU+AFC who afterward shun the diaspora. While in Guyana they had won the Admiration and Trust of the Guyanese Electorate and threw it all away for the love of money and obsession of Political Power. Guyanese have come to regard them as “Greedy and Selfish”. Pretty soon they, as well as the PPP, will know how they stand with the Electorate.
Some well-known members of the Civil Society and the PSC have since joined the bandwagon motivated by the oil/gas revenue. Fully aware that General Elections will not improve the livelihood of Guyanese who will continue to live in blackout.
Yours Faithfully
Desmond Alli (General Secretary GUA)
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