What is Stanley Brown?
{{Infobox person | name = Stanley Brown | image = | caption = | birth_name = Stanley Clayton Brown | birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|10|6|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Willemstad]], Curaçao | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|11|16|1938|10|6|df=y}} | death_place = [[Otrobanda]], Curaçao | monuments = | residence = | nationality = Kingdom of the Netherlands | occupation = political activist | known_for = | relatives = | awards = }} '''Stanley Clayton Brown''' (6 October 1938 – 16 November 2022) was a [[Curaçao]] political activist and politician.<ref name=ref0 /><ref name=ref1>{{cite web|url=https://www.trouw.nl/binnenland/stanley-brown-de-fidel-castro-van-curacao-overleden~b68283a3/ |title=Stanley Brown, ‘de Fidel Castro van Curaçao’, overleden|work=[[Trouw]]|date=17 November 2022|access-date=17 November 2022|language=nl}}</ref><ref name=ref2>{{cite web|url=https://caribischnetwerk.ntr.nl/2022/11/17/stanley-brown-afscheid-van-de-laatste-revolutionair-van-curacao/ |title=Stanley Brown, afscheid van ‘de laatste revolutionair van Curaçao’|work=caribischnetwerk.ntr.nl|date=17 November 2022|access-date=17 November 2022|language=nl}}</ref> ==Biography== [[File:Ras Elijah, Trinta di mei 1.jpg|thumb|175px|Brown is part of a wall painting in [[Otrobanda]]]] Brown became one of the three leaders of the [[1969 Curaçao uprising]], a series of riots mainly on 30 May 1969. These [[riots]] started with a strike of workers in the [[oil industry]]. A [[protest rally]] during the strike turned violent, leading to widespread looting and destruction of buildings and vehicles in the central business district of [[Willemstad]], the capital of Curaçao. Following the uprising, he founded the [[Workers' Liberation Front (Curaçao)|Workers' Liberation Front]] together with [[Amador Nita]] and [[Wilson Godett]]. This was a radical [[Socialism|socialist]] political party, that in the Curaçao general elections (until the [[2017 Curaçao general election]]). After the demolition of the [[Berlin Wall]], he stopped with his idealism of