It’s really difficult to be the bearer of more bad news this week. Progressives have woken up every day this week in a state of panic, crawling out of bed to check their news feeds, only to get the wind knocked out of them upon reading President Trump’s newest slate of racist executive orders that seem all but designed to stir global unrest and disaster.
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez — a man who himself was born in Cuba — sent a stark message to undocumented immigrants Thursday: Miami-Dade County will not protect you. Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order pulling all federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with Immigration…
New Times can neither confirm nor deny that we condone punching Nazis. (Wink.) But we sure as hell condone the way a group of University of Florida students acted earlier today after a neo-Nazi reared his shaved head in Turlington Plaza, one of the main gathering spots on UF’s Gainesville campus.
To put things bluntly, America’s president has spent the past 24 hours attacking brown people. First, Donald Trump announced he’s bullheadedly pushing forward with Building! The! Wall! despite the fact that the fastest-growing group of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. is flying in from Asia. He’s also banning refugees from seven Muslim countries in the name of homeland security despite the fact that nearly every post-9/11 assailant in this country has been a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
Dear Stoner: I heard that dispensaries have been slow all over the country because of some hack in their sales systems. Like, all of them. Why are they so unorganized? Malcolm Dear Malcolm: An industry representative recently told me that at least three-quarters of Denver dispensaries use pot-tech company MJ…
From the Bay of Pigs invasion to the overthrow of democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz, some of the CIA’s darkest covert operations across Latin America have Miami connections. Now, newly declassified documents show that the Magic City was almost a secret base for one of the bloodiest covert operations in Latin America, one that killed tens of thousands of people across a half-dozen countries.
In James Fallows’ 1997 book about media ethics, Breaking the News, he argues that journalists are often so blinded by their devotion to the nebulous idea of “objectivity” that they often forget to act like real people. Fallows cited a decades-old TV program in which war correspondents were asked whether they’d jump into combat to save a wounded soldier. Many of the reporters said — out of concerns for their neutrality — they would not save a dying American, to the horror of the TV show’s audience.
The video is dark and grainy, but according to the family and attorneys of Junior Prosper, it shows a Miami-Dade Police officer fatally shooting him as he crawled away along I-95. The footage — obtained from a nearby business — is a key piece of evidence…
During President Donald Trump’s inauguration events this past Friday, Richard Spencer, the neo-Nazi Ken doll, stood on a street corner in Washington, D.C., explaining the significance of the Pepe the Frog meme to a reporter who has apparently never once used the internet. Then the crowds parted as if moved by the archangel Metatron himself, and a masked hero jumped into the crowd — and socked Spencer in the face.
For two years, neighbors in Buena Vista Heights have signed petitions and waited. Gone to meetings and waited. Forwarded emails and waited. Consulted attorneys and waited. In 2015, residents learned a developer wanted to rezone a parcel in their residential, working-class neighborhood to build a five-story parking garage for Design District visitors. Since that time, they’ve watched — and, yes, waited — as the garage has gone through the slow process of city approval. Roughly 400 people have signed petitions circulating online and on paper asking commissioners to vote down the garage.
Earlier this month, environmentalists were aghast when the feds shot down a last-ditch effort to prevent Florida Power & Light from storing radioactive waste beneath Miami’s underground water supply. More than 1,500 people have now signed a petition demanding that lawmakers take action.
Stanley Glaser swats at mosquitoes outside his weatherbeaten house, which is shaded by towering mango trees and lush tropical ferns. Glaser learned to till a few small fields while living here in the early ’80s. Now the home sits at the center of an 20-acre South Miami-Dade oasis that churns…
“I marched the first time,” Sandy Oestreich says, speaking by phone from here home near St. Petersburg. Oestreich is 82, and has spent her life demonstrating in the streets for women’s equality. And compared to the big women’s rights protests in the 1970s, the lawmaker, professor, activist, and ardent feminist…
Hillary Clinton won 2016’s popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. Yet Donald Trump was sworn in as the new U.S. president last Friday thanks to an Electoral College system that disproportionately props up voters in small states and devalues votes in large ones.
With a confident grin, Mark Gold strides into a Broward County courtroom and waltzes up to a podium. Dressed in a dark suit and silver striped tie, the five-foot-five attorney tells Chief Magistrate Brenda Di Ioia that his client, a man caught speeding in his mother’s 1995 Saturn, will not…
It wasn’t that difficult to attend at least one event related to Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington. Marches were, in fact, planned in every single major American city and tons of smaller satellite cities, including tiny Lubbock, Texas; and Key West, Florida. Miami held its own rally at the Bayfront Park Amphitheatre, which concluded with a protest march through city streets. All you had to do was show up and march.
Remember two weeks ago when your friends were all amazed at Sen. Marco Rubio’s gutsy showing at Rex Tillerson’s confirmation hearing? Rubio roasted Tillerson for refusing to call Vladimir Putin a war criminal over his Syria campaign. Maybe, political columnists suggested, Rubio could be a GOP bulwark against Donald Trump’s neglect for basic human rights.
In 2007, then-Miami Beach Police Capt. Richard Weissman stood inside a Miami Beach hotel room, preparing his fellow officers for a prostitution sting. According to a later Miami Herald report, Weissman began tossing heated questions at the other cops, including “What if a prostitute comes in and tries to rob one of you guys?” and “What if when the prostitute enters the room, she locks the door?”
There were plenty of references to tiny hands — one sign even featured a pair of moving doll hands — and to nasty women.
Elections have consequences. Sure, there are some Miami voters who leapt enthusiastically onto the Trump Train and embraced all of the Donald’s plans. But thousands of locals voted for him only because they wanted lower taxes or a wall in Texas or the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Even more in Miami-Dade didn’t bother showing up at the polls.
Donald Trump is officially the president of the United States. Trump promised today to give power in America “back to the people” — people, presumably, like billionaires Besty DeVos, Steve Mnuchin, and Rex Tillerson, who make up his cabinet. If, however, you are interested in protecting your power and rights…
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