Resisting U.S. Human Rights Barbarism: The Arrest of Alyssa Philip In Trinidad and Tobago

Resisting U.S. Human Rights Barbarism: The Arrest of Alyssa Philip In Trinidad and Tobago

Originally published in Black Alliance for Peace. The arrest of Alyssa Phillip, a leader in the Justice for Kaia Sealy movement, during the Labour Day celebrations in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago, is a stark demonstration of how state power is being deployed to suppress legitimate, people(s)-centered demands for justice, and a troubling illustration of the government's full alignment with the current U.S. regime’s abandonment of even the pretens…