Protests and Demonstrations

Ana Tijoux at PAX Miami May 19

Mommy Dearest

Ana Tijoux, Chilean Rapper, Talks Chile Student Protests and Miami Bass

Born to a French social worker momma and a Chileno father escaping a tyrannical regime, Ana Tijoux is a golden-era hip-hop superfan, rapid-fire lyricist, musical activist, party girl, and pop star. Her youth was spent running wild in the streets of Paris to a rap soundtrack. But at the age of 13, ... More >>

Miami-Dade Police Watched Occupy Miami's Facebook Page for Months

Born to a French social worker momma and a Chileno father escaping a tyrannical regime, Ana Tijoux is a golden-era hip-hop superfan, rapid-fire lyricist, musical activist, party girl, and pop star. Her youth was spent running wild in the streets of Paris to a rap soundtrack. But at the age of 13, ... More >>

Reader mail: Occupy Miami has gone to hell

Born to a French social worker momma and a Chileno father escaping a tyrannical regime, Ana Tijoux is a golden-era hip-hop superfan, rapid-fire lyricist, musical activist, party girl, and pop star. Her youth was spent running wild in the streets of Paris to a rap soundtrack. But at the age of 13, ... More >>

Occupy Miami descends into drugs and chaos in an Overtown apartment building

Born to a French social worker momma and a Chileno father escaping a tyrannical regime, Ana Tijoux is a golden-era hip-hop superfan, rapid-fire lyricist, musical activist, party girl, and pop star. Her youth was spent running wild in the streets of Paris to a rap soundtrack. But at the age of 13, ... More >>

Annual Study: Cuba Has the Worst Press Freedom in the Americas

​The annual Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index is out, and Cuba continues to have the least freedom of the press in our part of the globe. No other country in the Americas even comes close to Cuba's lowly ranking. Meanwhile, the United States fell 27 places in the rankings in a worrisom ... 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 >>

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 >>

John Timoney, Former Miami Police Chief, To Train Police in Middle East Kingdom of Bahrain

​John Timoney, the former Miami Police Chief most notable for his violent handling of the FTAA Protests in 2003, is now packing his bags and heading to the Middle East. Bahrain's Interior Ministry has hired Timoney to handle training of police.The kingdom has decided it needs to reform its police ... 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 >>

Art Basel Miami Beach Concerned About Possible "Occupy" Protest

​Where will the one percent be this week? Glugging down free champagne and writing checks for million dollar art works during Art Basel Miami Beach, of course. Naturally, rumors of the 99 percenters staging an Occupy Wall Street related protest at the ritzy art fair are swirling, and ABMB is so co ... More >>

County Revokes Occupy Miami Permit, Protesters Agree to Move But Not Leave

Is Occupy Miami getting booted from Government Center?​While several anti-Wall Street sit-ins around the country have devolved into violent stand-offs between police and protesters, Occupy Miami has been as peaceful as can be.Now, however, Miami-Dade County is revoking the protesters permit for Go ... More >>

Occupy Miami Protesters Target Bank of America, Plan Mass Account Cancellations UPDATED

photo by Brian Katt via Wikimedia CommonsThe Occupy movement started with mass outrage against Wall Street, and while Miami may not be home to the slimy realm of Gordon Gekko, protesters outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center are turning their economic outrage onto the local equivalent: the ... More >>

TV on the Radio at the Fillmore Miami Beach October 25

photo by Brian Katt via Wikimedia CommonsThe Occupy movement started with mass outrage against Wall Street, and while Miami may not be home to the slimy realm of Gordon Gekko, protesters outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center are turning their economic outrage onto the local equivalent: the ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street: 8 Things Protesters Should Stop Doing To Be Taken More Seriously

We're on the fence about flutes.​Yesterday, we wandered around the Government Center in Downtown Miami-- site of the Occupy Miami tent-camp-- and found ourselves, well, a bit underwhelmed by the protest scene. By now, Occupy Wall Street and Occuoy Miami protesters must know that their critics ... More >>

The Occupy movement needs you, Miami

We're on the fence about flutes.​Yesterday, we wandered around the Government Center in Downtown Miami-- site of the Occupy Miami tent-camp-- and found ourselves, well, a bit underwhelmed by the protest scene. By now, Occupy Wall Street and Occuoy Miami protesters must know that their critics ... More >>

U2? Yes, Us Too.

We're on the fence about flutes.​Yesterday, we wandered around the Government Center in Downtown Miami-- site of the Occupy Miami tent-camp-- and found ourselves, well, a bit underwhelmed by the protest scene. By now, Occupy Wall Street and Occuoy Miami protesters must know that their critics ... More >>

Cuba Remains Protest Free on Anniversary of Hunger Striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo's Death

​As expected, the Cuban government has been doing a bang-up job keeping protests from flaring into major demonstrations on the first anniversary Wednesday of the death of hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo. The anniversary coincides with major upheavals in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. But the ... More >>

Fidel Castro Thinks NATO Will Invade Libya for Oil

​As Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has gone straight up tyrant in his country by ordering the killing of protesters seeking an end to his rule, some of his close allies across Latin America seem to be sticking with him. In fact, Fidel Castro thinks that the protests will be used as an excuse for th ... More >>

Stop, You're Surrounded

​As Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has gone straight up tyrant in his country by ordering the killing of protesters seeking an end to his rule, some of his close allies across Latin America seem to be sticking with him. In fact, Fidel Castro thinks that the protests will be used as an excuse for th ... More >>

Bill McCollum Supporters to Protest Rick Scott's Mexican "Porn"

​Anything related to the Republican primary for Governor has long since stopped making sense. Bill McCollum supporters are now set to hold a protest out side of a social networking website Rick Scott once invested in. The site, QuePasa.com, has a business relation with Playboy Mexico, which the Mc ... More >>

Naked on bikes for the BP spill

​Anything related to the Republican primary for Governor has long since stopped making sense. Bill McCollum supporters are now set to hold a protest out side of a social networking website Rick Scott once invested in. The site, QuePasa.com, has a business relation with Playboy Mexico, which the Mc ... More >>

Gov. Charlie Crist Vetoes SB6

​Gov. Charlie Crist has vetoed the Jeb Bush-backed, controversial SB6. The education bill would have eliminated tenure for newly hired teachers, and would have tied a portion of teachers' salaries to test score results."I say we must start over. This bill has negatively affected the morale of our ... More >>

Candlelight Vigil For Liberty City 7 Draws Dozens Downtown

Just before 8 p.m. last night, two dozen protesters in white T-shirts stared at the hulking Federal Detention Center downtown and held their breath. From one of the highest, slit-like windows cut into the massive concrete face, a pin-prick of light suddenly waved back and forth. The crowd erupted. ... More >>

Countdown Till John Timoney's Boot Party

Alex Izaguirre​When John Timoney swooped into the Magic City six years ago, watching him play up to the local media was like seeing Robert Duvall play Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. The sight of Timoney on his police bike taking out demonstrators during the 2003 Free Trade Area of the ... 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 >>

Miami Beach Rent-a-Cops March on Lincoln Road Today, Demand a Union

​It's not likely to draw quite as many stares as the topless protesters who paraded along Lincoln Road last weekend. But the SoBe security guards planning a march today have a much more compelling reason to demonstrate. The guards -- those guys you see pedaling past on mountain bikes every time yo ... More >>

News Roundup

LocalThe Westboro Baptist Crazytown Travel Club for Bigots and Assorted Loonies is coming to town to protest the hell out of whatever really. [Herald]Four South Florida Chrysler dealerships got the axe. [CBS4]There's 63 cases of Swine Flu in Florida now, and yet no one really cares anymore. [CBS4]Sp ... More >>

Armchair Revolutionaries, Unite

The Battle in Seattle is on in Coral Gables.

Crist Prepares For His Constitutionally Protected Marriage

The Battle in Seattle is on in Coral Gables.

Manny Diaz as Homeland Security Chief?

The Battle in Seattle is on in Coral Gables.

Local Photographer Carlos Miller Found Guilty

The Battle in Seattle is on in Coral Gables.

More Bad News for Chief Timoney

Miami's head cop gets sued over FTAA. Plus: The Bicycle Avenger wins the day.

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?

Meet the Szechuanosaurus

Dinosaurs of China take over the science museum

Tours of Shame

Dinosaurs of China take over the science museum

A Bay of Pigs Invasion

A protester with a history does his business at the Eighth Street monument

Ags to Riches

Can rural Homestead find deliverance from rampaging developer Steve Shiver?

Nixon Rewound

As Florida's GOP delegates head for New York, it's time to recall Miami Beach, 1972

Bork Torque

Well-traveled activist says Miami cops tormented her

Crime and Water Balloons

Have Miami city commissioners lost their (illegal) marbles?

A Prefab Demonstration

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

Best Promoter Of Cultural Diversity

John de Leon

Elian Nation

Scenes from a splintered city

Mullin

The Burden of a Violent History

The Sanchez Solution

Ramon Saul Sanchez is an exile leader with charisma, style, and a strong sense of drama

Free the Felon!

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

Reconstituted Juice

O.J. performs before fawning Floridians who forgive him past indiscretions as he reinvents his future