Casha
- Title:
- Casha
- Alternate Title:
- Casha
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Casha, Journal of the Caribbean Liberation Movement
- Date:
- 1973
- Date 2:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2372.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2372_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1960 - Present
- Subject:
- Politics & Government
Communism & Cold War - Measurement:
- 28 x 22 page (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This map is the cover page of volume I, number 1, of “Casha,” Journal of the Caribbean Liberation Movement. The first page of this mimeographed publication explains that “The Casha is a bush of thorns found throughout the Caribbean. When it penetrates the skin, it irritates, inflames and sometimes causes blood poisoning.” The illustration shows six hands, presumably militant ones, rising from the islands across the Caribbean and holding this thorny symbol. It appears that only this issue and issue number 2 of Casha were ever published.
The Caribbean Liberation Movement was a radical organization in Antigua and Barbuda, founded in 1968 and associated with the Communist Party of Cuba. According to the statement of “objectives” at the outset of the Journal, “The colonies of the western world are bursting into flames, . . . flames which will explode and consume the American empire and its lackeys. Thus creating more positive possibilities of victory, liberation and constant revolution.”
Among the contents of this issue are a “Message” from the “New Beginning Movement, Trinidad and Tobago” to the “African Liberation Day Coordinating Committee”; “How do the U.S. Government’s Intelligence Agencies Operate?”; and “Reminiscences of Zayd Malik Shakur (The Unforgettable Guerrilla),” to whom the issue was dedicated. Shakur was the former information minister of the New York Black Panthers under Eldridge Cleaver. He was killed in May 1973 in a shootout with New Jersey state troopers seeking to arrest one of his companions, a woman wanted for bank robbery and the murder of two policemen. New York Times, May 3, 1973, p.1.
For another map of the same period related to the Black Power movement in the Caribbean, see ID #2379. - Source:
- Casha, Journal of the Caribbean Liberation Movement, vol. I, no. 1, July 1973.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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