TIVOLI STORIES
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Tivoli Stories is a collaborative multi-media installation, book, and film project focused on the state of emergency that began in Jamaica on 24 May 2010 when police and military forces entered Tivoli Gardens and other West Kingston communities.  The security forces were to apprehend Christopher “Dudus” Coke, leader of the Shower Posse and “don” of the community, who had been ordered for extradition to the United States to stand trial for gun- and drug-related charges.  By the end of the week, Dudus had not yet been found and at least 73 civilians had been killed. Tivoli Stories was designed to provide a platform through which participating West Kingston community members could narrate their experiences during those weeks, and name and publicly memorialize loved ones they lost.  It is meant to contribute to a healing process in which historical silences are broken through audio and visual forms of storytelling (generated ethnographically and artistically); to align with the efforts of human rights activists locally and internationally working on issues related to state violence and extrajudicial killing; and to position this instance of extrajudicial violence in Jamaica within a broader context of the development of political nationalism in Jamaica, the history of US intervention into the region, especially during the Cold War, and the international trades in drugs and arms.

FOUR DAYS IN MAY: kingston 2010

An experimental documentary by the Directors of BAD FRIDAY,
 Junior "Gabu" Wedderburn, Deborah A. Thomas, and Deanne M. Bell. The documentary focuses on the 2010 State of Emergency in West Kingston Jamaica.
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BEARING WITNESS EXHIBIT

In May of 2010, at least 75 Jamaican civilians were killed in   the government’s attempt to extradite a drug trafficker and community leader. Survivors tell their stories in this powerful  exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology .
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POLITICAL LIFE
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WAKE OF THE PLANTATION

Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation is a story about the dissolution of (British) imperialism and the shifting vectors of (American) empire.  It provides a vision into the complexities of interest among diverse and shifting stakeholders within a transnational analytic frame over time, as well as a foundational narrative for the forms of state violence and illicit entanglement we see in the contemporary moment. 
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  • FOUR DAYS IN MAY
    • FILM CREDITS
    • SCREENINGS
    • PRESS LINKS
  • Bearing Witness
  • POLITICAL LIFE IN THE WAKE OF THE PLANTATION
  • about us
    • deanne m. bell
    • Deborah A. Thomas
    • Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn
  • Additional resources
    • Readings and Media
    • News reports
    • commission of enquiry