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Amplifying Quiet Diplomacy at CHOGM: A Belize Report on TCEN

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Posted, November 27th, 2015 The work of the Commonwealth Equality Network started 18 months ago, which included circulating a Collaboration and Consensus a report on mapping out the Commonwealth unique characteristics for political engagement. This included having meetings at the Royal Commonwealth Society Building, meeting parliamentary leaders individuals, assessing international reports and sharing knowledge about the structure of the Commonwealth secretariat. The process of political engagement is sometime tedious and boring, but it was clear with the leadership of Alistair Stuart and with support from Kaliedscope Trust the work at CHOGM slowly took shape with a clear vision of how engagement was to take place. Like all things, ideas of engagement  evolve from a myriad of places. The Doughty Street group, of the UK, helped to facilitate reflection and leadership to act in international spaces and activists refining the engagement process to its finality.   ...

Political Strategy before Misery Porn in London

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22 October, 2015 Literally upon arriving at the Lodge, I had my first meeting with the a representative of GLAAD, Ross Murray who met me in a little restaurant around Vauxhall Lodge to talk about communication support in North America.  Yes, my face looked like how I felt which was tried, but we managed to get an hour long meeting in before he had to leave. This effort was coordinated by Kapil Gupta of Human Dignity Trust, an effort, I had no regrets making on time. Belize was asked, as well, to make a short presentation at a cocktail in private home in London in 2015, regarding LGBT response in the Commonwealth  at the request of Kaleidoscope Trust. It was small, but important gathering for it set the stage for a week long engagement with the All Parliamentarian Party Group and builds on previous efforts through the Human Dignity Trust in 2014 as part of a panel.   Belize effort at raising international awareness and lessons learned have not been just abou...

People Say I am Mental...Belizean Art with a message

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RePosted: September 12th, September, 2015  by Anthony Berbey People say I belong in a mental institute. I say, y’all belong in a fucking zoo. People say I’m not mentally well.   say y’all can go to hell.   People say I don’t fight real causes. I say I can’t even find a word that rhymes with causes. ‘Cause it doesn’t matter what people say Whether you’re straight, bi, les, trans or gay. ‘Cause I don’t discriminate. I’m not the one showing all the hate. I call their hate-mongering bullshit when I see ‘em. ‘Cause their bullshit is the size of a Roman Colliseum. While they’re getting high and playing Yahtzee. I say you’re no better than the Nazis. ‘Cause we have stupid people in power so let’s watch ‘em crash and cower. People say what I’m saying can’t be true. I say y’all don’t even have half a clue. ‘Cause it doesn’t matter what people say Whether you’re straight, bi, les, trans or gay. ‘Cause I don’t discriminate. ...