Maurice Bishop, born on this day in 1944, was a Grenadian revolutionary and the leader of New Jewel Movement, which seized power of Grenada in 1979 and instituted widespread reforms of food, healthcare, education, and workers' rights.
Bishop headed the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada from 1979 to 1983, when he was dismissed from his post and shot in a coup, leading to civil unrest and a U.S. invasion of the country.
Although Bishop grew up in Grenada, he left to study in London as a young adult. While there, Bishop acquired a law degree and studied the works of Lenin, Mao Zedong, and Julius Nyerere.
In 1970, he returned to Grenada and was active politically, representing striking nurses in court and leading the New Jewel Movement (NJM), a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party. In 1979, the NJM successfully led a coup against Eric Gairy and made Bishop the Prime Minister of Grenada.
Among Bishop's core principles were workers' rights, women's rights, and the struggle against racism and apartheid. Women were given equal pay and paid maternity leave. Sex discrimination was made illegal. Organizations for education, health care, youth affairs, and literacy were also established. Due to his government's efforts, illiteracy and unemployment greatly declined.
In 1983, disputes within the party culminated in Bishop, along with seven members of his cabinet, being captured and executed. After his assassination, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and Grenada's governor-general Paul Scoon appealed to the United States to resolve the political situation. Within weeks, Ronald Reagan launched an invasion of Grenada.
-- March 13, 1979: The Grenada Revolution
-- One-on-one with then-Grenadian PM Maurice Bishop in 1976
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The prisoners placed 1 piece of chain (10 pounds) in a basket and sent it down. Into the empty basket that came up they put 2 pieces of chain (20 pounds). They kept adding 2 pieces to each basket that came up until they sent a 70 pound load down, getting back a 60 pound load.
Khecho replaced the 6 pieces of chain (60 pounds) with the servant (80 pounds). The girl woman descended as 7 pieces of chain came up. He unloaded 6 pieces and signaled the woman below to climb out. He lowered the remaining piece of chain, bringing the empty basket up.
The servant got in the basket again (total weight 80 +10 =90 pounds) and Daridjan( 100 pounds) descended. They both got out, Daridjan on the ground, the servant in the tower. Down went the basket still with 1 piece of chain in it, and up came the other basket, now empty.
Khecho repeated the first set of actions and soon lowered the servant to the ground again. He signaled Daridjan and the servant (100+80= 180 pounds) to get in, allowing Khecho(180 pounds) to descend with 1 piece of chain. Now the two women were in the tower and Khecho on the ground.
The servant was brought down as before, then Daridjan replaced her on the ground. In due time, the servant made her fourth and last trip down, bringing up 7 pieces of chain. As she stepped out, Khecho fastened the basket to keep the chain in the top basket from falling.
:oh-shit: that was a bit difficult and but here is a new one.
How many times as large?
Given two numbers, if we subtract half the smaller number from each number, the result with the larger number is three times as large as the result with the smaller number.
How many times is the larger number as large as the smaller number?
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I mean I don't talk to the boomers in my family because their white South African shitheads in which every possible conversation circles back to them saying something obscenely racist or bigoted. If I absolutely have to talk with them I try to keep it as cordial and light hearted as possible and refuse to engage any further than that. Last time I spoke to them years ago they were debating on which apartheid president was better. Never again
Being related to white South Africans must be the worst. I'm so glad everyone in my family knows better then to have G*mer moments out loud anyways.
But they make up for it by being selfish petite bourgeois bumble fucks. :cringe:
Still remember when they said they "were poor and very low class economically", despite being retired, owing a car each, living in homes that they owned and fully paid off, in a country where those things out you in the top 5% probably. The absolute lack of self awareness, especially when they could drive for ten minutes and be in an informal settlement where most people live in tin shacks. I seriously hate living here
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Yeah keeping up with some asshole and their latest blood money purchases must really rot boomers brains, especially if they got to a privileged position by "playing by the rules" of a system that heavily favoured them.
I didn't grow up that well of (I mean, I wasn't homeless or anything, but evicted or forced to move multiple times, big struggle to not be food insecure, etc.). Though I know how to "act bougie" if I need to be, as I was a scholarship kid from a posh/rich/bougie high school, back then.