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Le blog de [moi] [fr]narrates the devastation caused by Hurricane Dean in Martinique and the anguish of not knowing her parents' whereabouts during the ordeal.

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Recent Links also in Martinique

le blog de [moi] writes about the launch of a new, daily news website for the French Antilles[fr], featuring the latest from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyane: “What joy! Yes, pure and simple joy, because it was really ridiculous not to use [the internet] at a time when everything is going digital, if only for the Antilles Diaspora spread all over the planet. A big “AT LAST!'”

From Martinique, le blog de [moi] discusses Pro position 8[Fr], a proposed amendment to the California constitution that would prohibit same-sex marriage and is expected to pass in a referendum on Tuesday. She writes that denying gays and lesbians the right to marry is a “violation of civil rights. Period,” and points out that California recognized marriage as a fundamental human right when, in 1948, it became the first state to legalize interracial marriage.

kiskeácity remembers two influential Caribbean icons.