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Max Rameau

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Max Rameau and Umoja Village Invade Art Basel

    You can say Max Rameau is a social activist trendsetter. Long before the Occupy Wall Street movement was even an idea, Rameau was leading the charge for the disenfranchised 99 percent with his Take Back The Land organization. Five years ago, Rameau came up with the brilliant idea of organizing dozen ... More >>

  • News

    June 30, 2011

    Controversial Miami activist Max Rameau leaves town

    You can say Max Rameau is a social activist trendsetter. Long before the Occupy Wall Street movement was even an idea, Rameau was leading the charge for the disenfranchised 99 percent with his Take Back The Land organization. Five years ago, Rameau came up with the brilliant idea of organizing dozen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Max Rameau, Activist Behind Umoja Village, Takes His Project To DC

    via Take Back the LandMax Rameau​In 2007, amid the champagne-drenched corporate orgy known as the Super Bowl, a busload of reporters found itself on a very different kind of junket. Rather than locker-rooms full of millionaire fat guys, the journalists tiptoed through cardboard shacks populated by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Two Arrested After Mass Evictions in Liberty City

    The foreclosure crisis hit a fever pitch in Liberty City Tuesday morning, as banks foreclosed on two buildings, causing the eviction of three families.Escorted by several police officers, a bank employee showed up at 820 and 840 NW 70th St. He evicted three families living in the building, which led ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Q&A With Author/Activist Erick Lyle, at Books & Books Tonight and the Firefly Tomorrow

    In the Nineties, Erick Lyle, then known as Iggy Scam, lived an enviable, punk-ethics-fueled life around South Florida that is near impossible to imagine today. He booked shows at a warehouse venue, the Junkyard, at the bottom of South Beach, and at one point squatted an entire floor of the crumblin ... More >>

  • News

    December 4, 2008

    Squatters Fight for Rights

    A homeless mom wants her stuff back.

  • News

    November 20, 2008

    Squatters

    Don't cry. Just move into one of those empty homes around the corner.

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2007

    Umoja Village: The Book

    Don't cry. Just move into one of those empty homes around the corner.

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2007

    Umoja: One Year Later, Still Controversial

    Don't cry. Just move into one of those empty homes around the corner.

  • News

    September 20, 2007

    John Timoney, America’s Worst Cop

    He has spent 138 days on the road in just a few years on the job. Who’s minding the Miami Police Department?

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2007

    Umoja Village Saga Continues (UPDATED)

    He has spent 138 days on the road in just a few years on the job. Who’s minding the Miami Police Department?

  • News

    June 28, 2007

    If You Build It

    They won’t come ... or at least not without better planning

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2007

    The Death of a Shantytown

    They won’t come ... or at least not without better planning

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2007

    WMC Meets Liberty City at the Umoja Village Shanty-Down

    They won’t come ... or at least not without better planning

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2007

    Tours of Shame

    They won’t come ... or at least not without better planning

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2007

    A Reprieve for the Liberty City Shantytown

    They won’t come ... or at least not without better planning

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2007

    Radicals Get Tactical

    They won’t come ... or at least not without better planning

  • News

    October 21, 2004

    The Bitch

    Dead Air

  • News

    July 1, 2004

    Two in the Bush

    Purloined pigeons and a rooster identity crisis

  • News

    June 3, 2004

    Head Case

    No buts about it

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST PUBLIC MELTDOWN

    Joe Arriola

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    Crime and Water Balloons

    Have Miami city commissioners lost their (illegal) marbles?

  • News

    January 16, 2003

    Barred for Life

    The process for restoring the civil rights of felons in Florida works perfectly -- if not restoring their rights is the goal

  • News

    November 28, 2002

    A Prefab Demonstration

    Trying to ride the Haitian refugee-issue buzz, Sharpton kept referring to Elian as "Little Efrain"

  • News

    October 10, 2002

    Pro-Gay Pressure?

    Divisions from within: Allies skirmish over free speech

  • News

    June 13, 2002

    The Thick Blue Line

    Max Rameau switches gears on how to get a civilian investigative panel focused on county cops

  • News

    July 5, 2001

    Our Lady of the Projects

    Octavia Anderson and the last days of the James E. Scott Homes

  • News

    July 15, 1999

    Raze and Rebuild

    Scott Homes residents realize their apartments are dirty, dangerous, and crowded. Yet many want to stay.

  • News

    November 12, 1998

    The Devil and Mr. Jones

    Activist Leroy Jones battled personal demons and has emerged as a radical bent on black empowerment.

  • News

    July 16, 1998

    Civil Wrongs

    The Weed and Seed program is supposed to clean up inner-city neighborhoods. Fat chance.

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