Time to Break Down the Cages

C*weet Sugar Rage documents a particular moment in the Women's O Movement in Jamaica. Its primary project is to demonstrate and to teach that solidarity among working class women and middle class women will bring about change in the lives of women throughout Jamaica and will shape a better nation. The video ends with this message. As an example of the pioneering use of video in the struggle for better wages and working conditions for women in the region, this pro duction is of significance. It does not see itself obviously as an exercise in aesthetic innovation nor is it concerned to go beyond mapping the required terrain and promoting its message. That message is however well conveyed. As an historical document this 1985 work is a useful record of an