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Protests and Demonstrations

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Occupy Miami: After May Day Arrests, Has the Movement Completely Burned Out?

    May Day was supposed to mark Occupy Miami's reemergence as a force for good. Instead, it raised questions about how much longer the movement will survive in Miami.City police arrested three protesters during yesterday's downtown march, leading to another late-night protest outside the county's pretr ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 12, 2012

    Art for the Angry

    May Day was supposed to mark Occupy Miami's reemergence as a force for good. Instead, it raised questions about how much longer the movement will survive in Miami.City police arrested three protesters during yesterday's downtown march, leading to another late-night protest outside the county's pretr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Protesters Outside Marlins Park Call for Ozzie Guillen's Firing (Video)

    Inside Marlins Park, Ozzie Guillen apologized for "betraying his Hispanic community," but outside the front gates, a sizable crowd of Cuban-American protesters made it clear they were in no mood to forgive or forget his statements praising Fidel Castro."We never can forgive what he said," Blanco Gar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Want to Protest GOP Convention In Tampa? Be Ready to Pay $50, Leave Knives at Home

    ​Attention Miami-area anarchists, liberals, and Occupiers: Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn is worried about "knuckleheads" causing trouble during the Republican National Convention this August. So to keep all the Romney-disturbers in line, last night he proposed a "Clean Zone" across most of downtown Tam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Trayvon Martin's Death Shows Justice is Not Equal

    ​Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke is tired of marching and rallying for justice.Last week, thousands of people, led by Rev. Al Sharpton, held a rally in Sa ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 2, 2012

    Magnus Sigurdarson at the Dorsch: Rotating camels and a blond Bedouin in Opa-locka

    ​Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke is tired of marching and rallying for justice.Last week, thousands of people, led by Rev. Al Sharpton, held a rally in Sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Occupy Miami Evicted By Hundreds of Cops, Though Few Are Arrested UDPATED

    ​Hundreds of Miami and Miami-Dade police dressed in riot gear forcibly evicted the Occupy Miami campground last night outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, about 10 hours after the Occupiers had been served with an eviction notice. At least four people were arrested, including photojourn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Occupy Miami Protesters Asked to Move Back to Original Location by 5 P.M.

    All things considered, the Occupy Miami protests at Government Center in downtown have been relatively peaceful, and Miami-Dade County has been pretty lenient about dealing with protesters. Though, on Thursday they asked the protesters to move about 50 feet to the north lawn of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Occupy Miami's Protests Remain Peaceful While Other Movements Taste Pepper Spray

    photo by Liz TracyPolice and protesters have been on the same page in Miami so far.​In Oakland last week, police at an Occupy protest shot a military vet in the head with a rubber bullet, landing him in critical condition; other video showed officers lobbing dangerous flash bombs into peaceful cro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    Senate Candidate Adam Hasner: Occupy Protesters are "Thugs," "Anarchists" and "Anti-Semites"

    ​Adam Hasner is banking heavily on Tea Party support in his quest to secure the Republican nomination to take on Bill Nelson in 2012, but in a fundraising letter today he unleashed a very angry rant against another group of political protesters. Hasner pulled no punches in attacking, and in many c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Bo Diddley's Son Arrested in Bo Diddley Plaza During Occupy Gainesville

    ​The Occupy Wall Street movement hit Florida in full force this week, with protests taking place from big cities like Miami to one-percenter retirement meccas like Naples. Naturally, college town Gainesville got in on the action, and held a demonstration in Bo Diddley Community Plaza. Bo Diddley's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Victoria Jackson Gets Schooled on Jesus by Occupy Wall Street Protester

    ​Miami-native and SNL alum turned Tea Party sideshow attraction (and Riptide semi-obsession) Victoria Jackson decided to hit up the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City. Armed with a cheap digital camera, she decided to talk to the protesters about our Marxist president and capitalist Jesu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    "Occupy Miami" Camp-Out Will Begin Oct. 15, 700 Arrested In New York

    ​They came. They saw. They arranged to convene at a later date.Ar-Miami-geddon didn't happen, but more than a hundred "Occupy Miami" protesters did meet on Saturday in Bayfront Park downtown. They agreed to gather again this Saturday to plan a camp-out beginning on October 15.With 700 protesters a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    "Occupy Miami" Invades Bayfront Park Tomorrow: 2003 FTAA Protest All Over Again?

    via Occupy Miami's FacebookBrace yourself for waves of socially responsible hipsters."Occupy Miami" -- a protest against corporate greed modeled after the two-week sit-in currently clogging Wall Street in New York -- will take over Bayfront Park tomorrow.But how will our soulless city respond? And w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Twenty-Two Dead in Afghan Protests Over Florida Koran Burning, But is Terry Jones Directly to Blame?

    ​Twenty-two people, including several United Nations workers, have been killed in Afghanistan during protests over Florida pastor Terry Jones's burning of a Koran in his tiny Gainesville church. Jones, who had postponed the burning after threatening to hold International Burn a Koran Day on the ni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Protests Staged in Cuba, Miami to Commemorate Hunger Striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo

    ​Some 130 dissidents were arrested in Cuba, while several hundred demonstrators hit the streets of Miami to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo. The arrests on the communist island included the reported harassment and roughing up of a doz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Gloria Estefan to Lead March in Support of Cuban Dissidents

    Gloria Estefan, perhaps the most famous Cuban exhile, announced today she will lead a march in support of Cuban protesters in Little Havana.The Ladies in White, or Damas de Blanco, are the wives and relatives of jailed Cuban dissidents. They marched on the Capitol last Wednesday to protest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Cuba Clamps Down on Protesters

    Orlando Zapata Tamayo​For the second day in a row Wednesday, the Cuban government cracked down on protesters, this time punching and dragging several members of the Women in White denouncing the treatment of dissidents, one of whom died after a hunger strike last month, the Herald reported. The mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Hugo Chávez Calls Twitter a Tool of Terrorism

    Socialist crank Hugo Chávez doesn't much care for communication he can't control, so it was only a matter of time before he put the kibosh on Twitter in Venezuela.Last week, the tag #FreeVenezuela became a trending topic thanks to citizens protesting Chávez's crackdown on press freedom and ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Riptide Rides Van Van Protest Bus

    Los Van Van landed in Miami like a lit match dropped on an ancient anthill.Erik MazaRuckus at the concert​On Sunday, hundreds of grizzled Cubans came out of the woodwork -- Westchester, Little Havana, Hialeah -- to protest the popular band's concert at the James L. Knight Center.They came bearing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Tea Baggin' Battle: Florida Tea Party to Sue Other Florida Tea Party

    ​"The Tea Party" may be one of the silliest names associated with a political movement, but that hasn't stopped one Florida group calling itself the Tea Party for taking a similarly named group to court over the rights to the name.The Florida Tea Party, a grass-roots movement not affiliated with a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Human Fights Day in Cuba

    The three dozen "Ladies in White" who took to the streets of Havana on Human Rights Day on Thursday hoped to bring attention to husbands, fathers, and friends serving time in Cuban jails for speaking out. But it was the government that made the strongest case that human rights are being trampled dai ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 3, 2009

    Party Like It's 1933

    The three dozen "Ladies in White" who took to the streets of Havana on Human Rights Day on Thursday hoped to bring attention to husbands, fathers, and friends serving time in Cuban jails for speaking out. But it was the government that made the strongest case that human rights are being trampled dai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Moussavi Supporters Protest Iran Elections in Downtown Miami

    Ann Horwich-ScholefieldProtester at yesterday's Iran protest in downtown Miami.Think all the craziness in Iran is far away and meaningless to you? Think again. For two hours yesterday, from around 6 to 8 p.m., the plaza near The Torch of Friendship was taken over by a crowd of about 200 people wavi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2009

    Kicking cars and punching cops: Highlights from Gaza Protest Arrests

    An 18 year-old from Coral Springs was busted for wielding brass knuckles and a pocket knife, a petite middle-aged woman shouted "baby killers!," and a mob of protesters chucked rocks at a cop car. The Israeli-Palestinian protest Sunday on Biscayne Boulevard was a loud, colorful microcosm of hate - w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2008

    Amazing, Someone is Actually Protesting The Crist Wedding

    Riptide works on a self imposed quota system, and in order to meet our goals we have to make at least one "Charlie Crist is gay" joke a week. So it was only natural when reporting on Charlie Crist's upcoming nuptials to lay it on thick, especially while we were still fuming from the travesty of Amen ... More >>

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    FTAA Settlement Reached

    A New Times exclusive: The door's about to close on John Timoney's most infamous chapter

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2007

    Bring ‘Em Home

    A New Times exclusive: The door's about to close on John Timoney's most infamous chapter

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2007

    Puppet Punch

    A New Times exclusive: The door's about to close on John Timoney's most infamous chapter

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2007

    What's With the Rat?

    A New Times exclusive: The door's about to close on John Timoney's most infamous chapter

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2006

    Some Sacrifice

    A New Times exclusive: The door's about to close on John Timoney's most infamous chapter

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2006

    Some Sacrifice

    A New Times exclusive: The door's about to close on John Timoney's most infamous chapter

  • City Life

    May 12, 2005

    BEST MEMOIR

    The Summer That Changed Miami Beach by Seymour Gelber

  • Music

    October 7, 2004

    Vote for Change Tour

    The Summer That Changed Miami Beach by Seymour Gelber

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST LAWYER

    Lida Rodriguez-Taseff

  • Diversions

    May 13, 2004

    BEST OUTDOOR ART

    Greenpeace Human Art Protest

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    No Rest for the Weary Agitator

    Protest, alleged torture, days in jail, trial victory, quiz the mayor, more

  • News

    January 8, 2004

    Letters from the Issue of January 8, 2004

    Protest, alleged torture, days in jail, trial victory, quiz the mayor, more

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    Letters from the Issue of December 25, 2003

    Protest, alleged torture, days in jail, trial victory, quiz the mayor, more

  • News

    December 11, 2003

    Headbangers Ball

    Claims that police didn't aim at FTAA protesters' upper bodies get a black eye

  • News

    December 11, 2003

    Watching the Detectives

    Ostensibly neutral legal observers say they were selectively hassled during FTAA

  • News

    December 4, 2003

    Letters from the Issue of December 4, 2003

    Ostensibly neutral legal observers say they were selectively hassled during FTAA

  • News

    December 4, 2003

    Pick Your Reality

    Either FTAA protesters viciously assaulted police, or police viciously assaulted protesters

  • News

    December 4, 2003

    Press Pass and a Gas Mask

    Embedded reporters made the military look good in Iraq, but did they do the same for Miami cops?

  • News

    December 4, 2003

    Dangerous Medicine

    For street medics tending to FTAA protesters, neutrality was no match for brutality

  • News

    November 27, 2003

    Now Entering Fort Miami

    Don't forget to bring your gas mask and flak jacket

  • News

    November 27, 2003

    Jailhouse Crock

    I was arrested by bad cops on bogus charges and spent a bizarre night behind bars

  • City Life

    May 11, 2000

    Best Protest Du Jour

    Hunger strikes

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    Kulchur

    Libertad! Libertad!

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