The Ybor City Stogie

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

RAYBOR RIP

Tampa Activist 6, Tampa Bay Rays 0

DEAN - SHOUP - PASSMORE

D'ANGELO - SHOUP - EICH

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg said that the project which was intended to result in a new ballpark for the team in Ybor City has fallen apart. No new ballpark will be built. HERE

Watch the shot across the bow here

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib pulling back the curtain

Welcome to DC

Orientation for newly elected members of Congress

They informed the public through live social media updates that contrary to the ideologically neutral advertising—the private conference featured a heavy dose of speeches by corporate CEOs and completely shut out organized labor and members of the progressive community.
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Ocasio-Cortez Tweeted: Right now Freshman members of Congress are at a “Bipartisan” orientation w/ briefings on issues.
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Tlaib said: Gary Cohen, former CEO Goldman Sachs addressing new members of Congress today: "You guys are way over your head, you don't know how the game is played."

No Gary, YOU don't know what's coming - a revolutionary Congress that puts people
over profits.

As one of the first campuses to take up the call to Boot the Braids, students at the University of Florida, alongside stalwart religious leaders and community allies, have been demanding administrators cut ties with Wendy’s given the company’s gross human rights record for over four years.
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The arc of the Boot the Braids Campaign at UF has been strong and sustained, seeing marches with hundreds of Fair Food supporters! And now, students are prepared to take it to new heights as they look to welcoming Florida farmworkers, their families and allies from all across the state to campus this spring. INFO

Ybor City Musicians

Kemi Tortuga at Tequilas

Monday, December 10, 2018

Tampa Bay Rebellion

Big Bend Power Station in Apollo Beach is the only coal burning plant located around Tampa Bay, and is one of the largest in the state.

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why we need non violent
direct action at Big Bend and TIA right now.

International Declaration of Rebellion invites people of other nations to join them leading up to a coordinated action day on April 19th.

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Groups are preparing under the banner in Canada, Sweden, New Zealand and many other countries and cities. The call for international rebellion is building on fertile ground.

James Lamont

Radical Beat Writing

Ybor City Homeless 2018

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Aniellla Echon: This is Downtown Tampa

Tampa Hoods: Ybor City

7th Ave

Thanks Commissioner Pat Kemp

Words of Pat Kemp:

Thank you all for standing up and emailing & calling to bring back the ferry study/plan. We are back on track again! The BOCC had voted 5-1 to restart the ferry study/plan that we had already paid $500,000 to finally get done.(Only Comm. Les Miller voted no this time.) (Special thanks to Jae Passmore, Gwen Meyers, Cleo L. Townsend for making it
to the meeting.

In Sept, just 2 months ago, the BOCC approved the ferry study/plan by 7-0, then suddenly for no apparent reason put the ferry on the agenda on the lame-duck session and killed the study/plan 2 months into a 4 month plan by a 6-1 vote with only me supporting finishing the study/plan we had already mostly paid for.