Monday, March 14, 2016

Solidarity Sunday - Chinga tu Pelo In The Heights





Gaby, Chris and Norwood

Liz and Ashley of Fight For 15

Owner of this magical place Jennifer
 with Ngan and Norwood

Local Legend Ronny Elliott

Team Pat Kemp



Phone Banking for Bernie!

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Demise Of GOP On Full Display At The Miami Debate

On Thursday night, as the four remaining GOP candidates debated, hundreds of people from across Florida took to the streets outside the University of Miami to protest the party’s rhetoric on immigration, women’s health, the Puerto Rican debt crisis, and the minimum wage. here
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Not enough old white guys.
The Republican Party has a demographics problem. A recent analysis found that while GOP frontrunner Donald Trump may be energizing a subset of white male voters who normally don’t participate in politics, he is driving away the very groups Republicans need to win the White House this fall: young people, women, naturalized immigrants, Latinos, and blue collar workers. Trump has done so much damage to the GOP’s brand with these groups that he would need to win more than 70 percent of all white men to make up for it,

March Solidarity Sunday - Chinga tu Pelo!


Tampa's Monthly Worker Meetup is Back. Wut? The Election is Tuesday? No worries - We’ll set up Phone Banking for Bernie for anyone who’s up for talking. And for those who are too pent up with rage to carry on a polite phone conversation, or for anyone who just feels like hitting something, we’ll have a Donald Trump Pinata that you may beat. With a stick. 

And Lee’s will be tapping an Exclusive Primary Election Beer! FMI: Stay Tuned. Salud! info

Drink Beer With St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman

We heard he is going to be at the

Spring Beer Fling

Saturday, March 19th - Vinoy Park 

Bernie Sanders Tampa Rally on March 10, 2016

Thanks Litbrit!

Saturday, March 12, 2016

God Will Use Orlando To Put His Man In The White House

Orlando is going to be a city where God is about to visit. Look around, we are here in Orlando, a few days away from the Florida primary, but I am here to tell you, God is on his throne, and he is looking throughout all the earth for those whose eyes are stayed upon him, that we might arise and declare, America shall be restored back to Jesus. here

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard In Tampa

Rick Scott Embarrasses Himself, And America, On National TV

Closet trump supporter 
Florida GOP Rick Scott gave one of the more painful television interviews in recent memory -- and, in the process, offered a case study in why Donald Trump’s rhetoric about Muslims is so dangerous. here

Clearwater Family Dental

We had such a great event last year so we decided to do it again. This is our chance to give back to the community. Tell your family and friends who may need some help to put it on the calendar. We will be offering cleanings, fillings or extractions, patients choice. See you then! here

Florida INC. Radioactive Biscayne Bay

The discovery of dirty water contaminated by tritium leaking into Biscayne Bay from the cooling canals at the Turkey Point nuclear plant is the clearest sign yet that Florida INC. doesn't give a shit about us. here


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article64864317.html#storylink=cpy

Zoe @ Bernie Sanders Rally In Tampa

Made some new friends. here

Friday, March 11, 2016

Latino Activists In Florida Fired Up

The reality is that there are thousands upon thousands of eligible voters that are going to register to vote in this election in record numbers, and the irony is that that record registration is actually coming from the direct threat and attack from candidates who continue to speak negatively and deplorably of the immigrants in this country,” said Jose Luis Marantes, an activist with the Florida Immigrant Coalition, speaking at a rally in Ybor City on Wednesday. “They think that by saying those words, by threatening us with walls, by threatening us with deportation, that they will make us hide, and cower, and go home. The reality is they’re emboldening us, angering us, and preparing us to get ready to vote and to show in 2016. here

Florida’s War On Women

Florida GOP passed a major bill that would shut down abortion clinics and take away birth control. here

Really Really Free Market In Suitcase City

3.20 - 3PM
1708 east 127th avenue (Suitcase City) Tampa

Florida Independents Shut Out Of March 15th Primary

Florida’s current closed primary system means that the 3.25 million registered independents,  the fastest growing part of the electorate, are ineligible to cast their vote in the March 15th primary. here

Party With Pat Kemp In Seminole Heights

3.20 - 12PM
Red Star Rock Bar
 Seminole Heights

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Climate Deniers

Rep. Ted Yoho  $11,000
Rep. Dennis Ross $71,250
Rep. Jeff Miller $9,250
Rep. Bill Posey $43,000
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart $90,500 here

Dezeray Lyn: Palestine Week

An incredible five days in Beirut during Palestine week ended this evening. here

Young Florida Voters Object To Superdelegates

Sun-Sentinel Won't Endorse Any GOP Candidate

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel's editorial board says it can't endorse any of the 2016 Republican candidates -- a rebuke that especially stings Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. The Sun-Sentinel, lambasted Rubio, writing that he "has almost no experience and has done little but run for office," and criticizing his missed Senate votes.
"Because Rubio has failed to do his job as a senator, broken the promises he made to Floridians and backed away from his lone signature piece of legislation on immigration, we cannot endorse him for president," the newspaper wrote. here

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Erik Fresen Of Miami

Two former nursing students from 
Mattia College, the for-profit college
That abruptly closed its South Florida campuses earlier this year, arrived in Tallahassee to urge the Legislature to stop ignoring the plight of hundreds of students abandoned by failed colleges. Fresen, would not schedule a hearing on the bill. here

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Ybor Paparazzi

Jessica Rose Powell on 7th Ave

Only 300 Show Up To Rubio Rally in Tampa

Team Marco Rubio held a campaign rally at the Tampa Convention Center  Only 300 people showed up (max), so the campaign just held the rally in one collapsible room about the size of a hotel lobby. here

Tallahassee's Skunky Weed Bill

Once again, Tallahassee politicians are putting their own campaigns before medical science and the rights of doctors. They passed HB307, a bill that perpetuates the status quo except for a very small number of terminally ill patients. This law would do nothing for people like my brother, a quadriplegic, or any other person who has intractable pain. It does nothing to help cancer patients who need marijuana to counter the affects of chemo. It does nothing for our soldiers with PTSD or patients with MS. The bill is typical Tallahassee window dressing, designed more to help with campaigns than serve as a true means of access for those that need it. lt also adds a new class of eligibility to a universe of 
ZERO eligible patients.
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While there are a few up there worth supporting, I lost faith in the legislature a long time ago. The ONLY thing they've done with this legislation is acknowledge that medical marijuana works, but then they specifically voted against access for hundreds of thousands of patients who need it.
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This is why we took matters into our own hands, and why so many of us opened up our wallets to support getting Amendment 2 on the 2016 ballot. Tallahassee's failure points again to the need for Amendment 2, and the need for your continued support.  Doctors—not Tallahassee politicians—should decide who they should recommend use marijuana.  People shouldn't have to be terminal to be allowed this access.
- John Morgan, Chairman, United for Care

Bernie Coming To Tampa

3.10 - 4PM
The Florida State Fairgrounds Expo Hall 

Stop TBX Siege Begins In Tampa

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Dezeray Lyn: Bourj Brajneh Refugee Camp


Wall Painting
Bourj Brajneh Refugee Camp - Beirut, Lebanon
Learn more about this Amazing Local Treasure HERE

Florida INC. Power Grab For Control Of The Courts

After the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the partisan maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature violated the Fair Districts amendments, Florida GOP John Wood, of Polk, called for impeachment proceedings against the justices. Now, Wood and his colleagues in the House are asking the people of Florida to believe that the judicial term-limits bill passed in the House has absolutely nothing to do with payback. 
Don’t buy it. here
The truth is the judicial branch is the only thing that can prevent the governor and the Legislature from enacting unconstitutional laws.

John Morgan On Tallahassee Window Dressing

The Florida Senate passed HB 307 on a bipartisan 28-11 vote. HB 307 is meant to expand current medical marijuana laws to allow terminally ill patients the use medical marijuana.
Attorney John Morgan, United for Care's Chairman, said, "Once again, Tallahassee politicians are putting their own campaigns before medical science and the rights of doctors. This law would do nothing for people like my brother, a quadriplegic, or any other person who has intractable pain. It does nothing to help cancer patients who need marijuana to counter the affects of chemo. It does nothing for our solders with PTSD or patients with MS. The bill is typical Tallahassee window dressing, designed more to help with campaigns than serve as a true means of access for those that need it. Hospice centers have another drug. It's called morphine."

The Tampa Tribune Moving To St.Pete

The Tampa Tribune 
will begin printing in Pinellas County after 121 years of publishing the newspaper 
in Tampa. here

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri's Pin Joints

Twenty grams, he said, could be rolled into some 40 joints. “We’re not talking about one or two marijuana cigarettes here,” he said. Not giving first-time offenders a criminal record for possession of a small amount of marijuana is fine, but it should be handled differently. here