our duty must be to harness the strength of unity that we represent and that we genuinely embody. For only in unity can we earnestly fight to overcome the seemingly monumental difficulties of our region, ‘Our Americas,’ as José Martí, the great Americanist thinker, entitled our region."

fought at the beginning of the 20th century for the unity of the Caribbean. As inheritors of these great traditions, we have a duty: that is, as we approach the 21st Century, doing so with collective experience of national independence and with an anti-colonial perspective,

We think nobly, nationally, with special regard for the first fundamentals of a West Indian unity, and a West Indian identity.'

As Simón Bolívar fought at the beginning of the 19th century for the unity of Latin America, so too Marryshow

...In the early 20th century, the Grenadian Theophilus Marryshow, the Father of West Indies Federation said:

'A West Indies in a world like this must unite or perish. This is not the time for parish pump politics.

As Zuboff said, "We are the sources of surveillance capitalism's crucial surplus: the objects of a technologically advanced and increasingly inescapable raw-material-extraction operation. Surveillance capitalism's actual customers are the enterprises that trade in its markets for future behavior"