Lest We Forget
Lest We Forget
Tenement Yaad Media
The 1979 Union Island Uprising
33 minutes Posted Apr 7, 2026 at 11:56 am.
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Content Warning: This episode contains brief mentions of slavery and police brutality


In October 1979, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines became an independent state. Within this jubilation however, residents of the Grenadines still had concerns of the decades of unemployment, underemployment and underdevelopment and how these issues would fit into this new period of the nation’s history. But come December, on one of these particular islands, a group of persons choose a unique manner to address their grievances. 


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