Protests and Demonstrations

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What's With the Rat?

Some Sacrifice

Bring ‘Em Home

Some Sacrifice

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 >>

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 >>

FTAA Settlement Reached

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

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The Summer That Changed Miami Beach by Seymour Gelber

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The Summer That Changed Miami Beach by Seymour Gelber

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Greenpeace Human Art Protest

No Rest for the Weary Agitator

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

Letters from the Issue of January 8, 2004

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

Letters from the Issue of December 25, 2003

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

Headbangers Ball

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

Watching the Detectives

Ostensibly neutral legal observers say they were selectively hassled during FTAA

Letters from the Issue of December 4, 2003

Ostensibly neutral legal observers say they were selectively hassled during FTAA

Pick Your Reality

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

Press Pass and a Gas Mask

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

Dangerous Medicine

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

Now Entering Fort Miami

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

Jailhouse Crock

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

Best Protest Du Jour

Hunger strikes

Free the Felon!

A Sixties-style radical shakes his behind at old-style protesters, and police go crazy

Kulchur

Libertad! Libertad!

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 >>

Protesters at Loews Hotel Have Two Reasons to Wave Signs

via flicker cc​It keeps happening in Miami Beach. Cops pull up, tell demonstrators to put away their bullhorns, and to stop banging those drums. Then an officer whips out a small pad of paper and writes a noise code violation. That's how it went on three occasions in front of Loews Miami Beach ... More >>

Party Like It's 1933

via flicker cc​It keeps happening in Miami Beach. Cops pull up, tell demonstrators to put away their bullhorns, and to stop banging those drums. Then an officer whips out a small pad of paper and writes a noise code violation. That's how it went on three occasions in front of Loews Miami Beach ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

"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 >>

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

David Shankbone via wikimedia commonsA protester in New York. But will they turn out in force in Miami?​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. The ... More >>

The Occupy movement needs you, Miami

David Shankbone via wikimedia commonsA protester in New York. But will they turn out in force in Miami?​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. The ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Occupy Art Basel is So Far Just a Tumblr Blog, a Facebook Page, and a Snobby Art Collector

​Will Art Basel Miami Beach get a Wall Street-style occupation this week? The art fair warned gallerists of the possibility, and rumors are swirling. Now OccupyArtBasel.com is live, but right now it's just a Tumblr blog filled with a mini-manifesto and a Occupy movement related pictures and links. ... More >>

Dax "Dr. Dax" Rudnak, Big Boi Music Video Director, Live-Tweeted His Occupy Art Basel Prison Stay

​Dr. Dax -- real name Dax Rudnak -- has the kind of career Riptide can get behind. He is an Atlanta graffiti artist who designs album covers that look like this. He's directed several Big Boi videos including this one featuring 2 Short and George Clinton, and can be seen here bowling in a dashiki. ... More >>

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

photo via Occupy Miami's facebook​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 five people we ... More >>

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

photo via Occupy Miami's facebook​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 five people we ... More >>