The Other MiamiOur relentless tour guides have yet more reality in store for us. We head north to the Umoja Village shantytown, a 45-person squatter settlement on a barren city-owned lot that looks like the sort of thing you might find in Bangladesh. A couple of residents show us around—the “kitchen” area buzzing with flies, the “living room” crammed with tattered old furniture and the dwellings made of plywood, cardboard and tarp.......more
“We can have a democratic society, or we can have the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. We cannot have both.”- Louis Brandeis. Supreme Court Justice
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