Event no. 1
Part 2 of
Learning the lessons from:
The implosion of the Grenadian Revolution
Wednesday 8th June 2011 @ 6.30pm
West Indian Ex-Servicemen's Association
161-167 Clapham Manor Street
Clapham
SW4 6DB
The Grenada Revolution was the brightest revolutionary light on a Caribbean island since the Cuban revolution. Given its importance, the circumstances of its implosion, the deaths (some unexplained) of Afrikan Grenadians, the disappearance of many bodies including those of key leadership figures and the imprisonment of the majority of the surviving leadership on the basis of an almost evidence-free conviction, there remain exacting questions to be asked and a great deal of scope for healing and reconciliation.
The intention is to continue the non-confrontational exchange on these matters.
Chair:
Cecil Gutzmore (Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum)
Leading the questions:
Professor Gus John (Author of ‘Time to Tell’)
Responding and clarifying:
Selwyn Strachan (Surviving member of the leadership of the New Jewel Movement)
Event no. 2
The 2nd Annual Marcus Garvey Memorial Lecture
Friday 10th June 2011 @ 6.00pm
Henry Thomas Room (TG30)
Tower Building
London Metropolitan University
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB
This year's lecture will be delivered by:
Selwyn Strachan
Selwyn was a member of the Political Bureau & Central Committee of Grenada’s New JEWEL Movement (NJM). He operated as Publication Secretary of the NJM, Editor of the JEWEL, the party’s weekly newspaper, Chairman of the NJM Organising Committee and a Minister with multiple portfolios in Grenada’s People’s Revolutionary Government when the NJM came to power.
Selwyn was one of the Grenada 17 incarcerated in Grenada for 26 years (including 8 on death row) after being falsely convicted for the murder of Maurice Bishop. Even today many questions remain unanswered about the tragic circumstances surrounding the downfall of Grenada’s People’s Revolutionary Government. He will take us through this period and help us to learn the lessons from the fall of what was the brightest revolutionary light in the Caribbean since the Cuban revolution.
