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November 26, 2008
Channel 10 Squatter Story Sounds Familiar
Last week, New Times brought you the story of Cassy the squatter, the homeless Haitian mother who moved into a blue, bank-owned foreclosed house in Buena Vista with her young daughter. Her tale included a tribe of activists, a couple broken laws, and a mortgage lender none the wiser.Cassy, whose ... More >>
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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 >>
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December 4, 2008
Squatters Fight for Rights
A homeless mom wants her stuff back.
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November 20, 2008
Squatters
Don't cry. Just move into one of those empty homes around the corner.
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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 >>
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June 27, 2011
Max Rameau, Activist Behind Umoja Village, Takes His Project To DC
via Take Back the LandMax RameauIn 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 >>
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June 30, 2011
Controversial Miami activist Max Rameau leaves town
via Take Back the LandMax RameauIn 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 >>
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December 1, 2011
Max Rameau and Umoja Village Invade Art Basel
Max Rameau (bottom right) at the site of the original Umoja Village circa 2006.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 organizat ... More >>