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Grenada - Stand Up Grenada Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 220724-05

Color: Black and White and Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1962-1980s

Country: Grenada,Guyana

Location: Caribbean

TC Begins: 05:20:05

TC Ends: 05:33:49

Duration: 00:13:44

Grenada - Stand Up Grenada Pt 2 of 2 Continued... Guyana, 1962 - 1964. Riots on streets - body - funeral. Houses burning. Burnt out houses - tourist cottages. 05:21:20 October 1st 1979 President Carter announces the establishment of a full time joint task force HQ at Key West. Says HQ will enable the US to monitor and respond rapidly to any military encroachment in the Caribbean region. Talks of the need for rapid deployment. 05:22:53 Maurice Bishop address UN Oct. 10th 1979. Re A wind of change blowing through the Caribbean. Says the US has defined the Eastern Caribbean as being one of the World’s four trouble spots. Says the US has an established pattern of using gun-boat diplomacy - destabilization and other cold war methods against the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. Talks of previous American interventions in Dominican Republic, Haiti, Columbia, Mexico, Nicaragua and Cuba. Says he rejects the proposed setting up of Caribbean task force and calls on other nations for support. 05:26:01 Fork truck driver - docks - unloading sacks. Sacks loaded onto lorries. Dock workers. Sacks in hold of ship. Sacks loaded onto trucks. 05:29:03 Bernard Court addressing open air rally re press / media misrepresentation - says all newspapers run by one man who is openly calling for the overthrow of the revolutionary government. CU various newspaper articles and cartoons. Article in Torchlight inciting violence. 05:31:30 Men working on gun - bullets - militia. Armed Rastafarians. Rasta saying CIA tried to use Rastas to stir up counter-revolution. Automatic machine guns. Soldier attached to the police unit looking at revolutionary books. Incomplete (?). Politics; Anti-Communism; NOTE: License fee applies.

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