Press Release
22nd July 2020
101 Years since the Black Belizean Revolution of 1919
July 22nd and 23rd 1919 was the Black Belizean Revolution.
Last year July 22nd and 23rd 2019 The UBAD Educational Foundation (UEF) and The Image Factory Art Foundation (IF) organized three community actions in remembrance of our African ancestors’ bravery when they resisted the system of oppression known as white supremacy.
This year July 22nd and 23rd 2020 because of COVID-19 and social distancing we have produced a video digital remembrance.
In the digital remembrance, community members read out the names of Our African ancestors who went to fight in World War 1 in Europe under the British West Indies Regiment.
It is important to remember that they came back to then British Honduras (BELIZE) to face racism, no access to jobs, and no access to land, to they rose up in rebellion against the colonial system of oppression.
For an interview contact YaYa Marin Coleman: 671-8050
22nd July 2020
101 Years since the Black Belizean Revolution of 1919
July 22nd and 23rd 1919 was the Black Belizean Revolution.
Last year July 22nd and 23rd 2019 The UBAD Educational Foundation (UEF) and The Image Factory Art Foundation (IF) organized three community actions in remembrance of our African ancestors’ bravery when they resisted the system of oppression known as white supremacy.
This year July 22nd and 23rd 2020 because of COVID-19 and social distancing we have produced a video digital remembrance.
In the digital remembrance, community members read out the names of Our African ancestors who went to fight in World War 1 in Europe under the British West Indies Regiment.
It is important to remember that they came back to then British Honduras (BELIZE) to face racism, no access to jobs, and no access to land, to they rose up in rebellion against the colonial system of oppression.
For an interview contact YaYa Marin Coleman: 671-8050
22nd and 23rd JULY 2019 - PROTEST DAYS - 100 years on
"We have a mind-set that wants to create a colonial architecture and then have Paslow Building. Thomas Paslow was a white man who owned and enslaved African people and then killed them. As a matter of fact, his woman was named Clarissa. You have a place in Cayo name Clarissa Falls. When you don't know your history you repeatedly say the name of people who killed your ancestors. I know they just killed your best friend Allyson Major, now you think you would ever name one of your children after the person who killed your cousin? Never you would do that, brother. That is what we are doing. We want to name building after the man who killed our black ancestors, Thomas Paslow. This from the archives, these are the African people who the man owned. See their names here."
"Anyways, the point I am making is when people don't know their story, they are bound to repeat the atrocities of the past. today we will launch a petition and that petition will be online and we are going throughout the whole county and talk about their stories and we will ask for people to sign if you agree that this place should not be called Paslow Plaza. It wasn't us that came up with the name 1919, in having the conversation on Facebook, somebody recommended that they called it 1919 Plaza."
- YaYa Marin Coleman, Community Worker (Channel 7 News - posted July 23, 2019 - Paslow Pilloried)
"Anyways, the point I am making is when people don't know their story, they are bound to repeat the atrocities of the past. today we will launch a petition and that petition will be online and we are going throughout the whole county and talk about their stories and we will ask for people to sign if you agree that this place should not be called Paslow Plaza. It wasn't us that came up with the name 1919, in having the conversation on Facebook, somebody recommended that they called it 1919 Plaza."
- YaYa Marin Coleman, Community Worker (Channel 7 News - posted July 23, 2019 - Paslow Pilloried)