Mel Cooke, Gleaner Writer Published: Friday | October 24, 2014
On Monday, October 27, this year's edition of the annual Peter Tosh Symposium takes place in the Multifunctional Room of the Main Library,University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus. Put on by the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work as well as the UWI National Heritage Month Celebration Committee, both at Mona, it is titled Peter Tosh - Protagonist, Activist, and Pan-Africanist: A Focus on the Man, The Music, The Message and the Herb.
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The title suggests a multi-dimensional assessment of Tosh, who was killed in Barbican, St Andrew, on September 11, 1987, and Dr Michael Barnett confirmed this as he previewed what speakers Miguel Lorne, Taitu Heron, Dr Clinton Hutton and Evah Gordon will be addressing.
"Lorne will be speaking about the comparisons between the Mario Deane case and Tosh," Barnett said, noting that Tosh was also arrested for a spliff and ended up being badly beaten in the Half-Way Tree Police Station. Unlike Deane, "he survived, but at the end of the day it is based on the argument that it was a spliff."
Noting Tosh's renowned advocacy for the legalisation of marijuana, Barnett reflected on his Legalise It album of nearly four decades ago. "We are looking at where we are now with the apparent decriminalisation soon to come into effect, if it will make any tangible difference," Barnett said. more
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