Friday, December 14, 2018

Tampa Bay Rays: Going, Going, Gone!

Major League Baseball’s near decade-long attempted extortion of Tampa Bay taxpayers is over. here

Butterfly Garden at HCC Ybor City Campus

Florida Dem Al Lawson's Bloody Hands

He is among five House Democrats to side with Republicans, voting for a bill that quells the prospect of halting U.S. aid to Saudi-led forces in Yemen. here

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Tampa Activist Life: April 2018

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YBOR ROB INJUSTICE WATCH: First Amendment Audit Fail Intimidation

YOU'RE SURROUNDED (Give up)

I WON'T BACK DOWN

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Tampa Mayoral Candidate Forum

Pat Kemp

Sadie Dean

Maria Alexandra Ayala

Ed with fans

Sparkman Wharf

Hosted by Walk Bike Tampa

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.

Learn more about Mr. Miller here

Sunday, December 9, 2018

Holiday Parade In Ybor City

I was not covering this event. I was having dinner
and when I walked out found this.

Joe Citro and Luis Viera were coming by.

Before the parade.

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Anchovie Pizza at New York, New York in Ybor

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EAT LOCAL!

Ybor City Cultural Center

Ybor City, Florida

Ybor City Homeless

Meet Eric

Tampa Locavore 2018

EAT LOCAL!

Saturday, December 8, 2018

Ybor City Musicians

Sara

YBOR CITY CHICKENS

CENTENNIAL PARK 2018 DEC 7

Remember Bush And The Texas Rangers?

Repost: December 11, 2014

The city spent $150,000 on an advertising campaign to persuade voters. Opponents of the deal couldn’t compete with glossy brochures, telemarketing calls, and a “Hands Around Arlington Day.” On Jan. 19, 1991, citizens of Arlington voted two-to-one to approve a sales-tax increase dedicated to building
the new park.

Between the sales-tax revenue, state tax exemptions and other financial incentives, Texas taxpayers handed the privately owned Rangers more than $200 million in public subsidies. Taxpayers didn’t get a return from the stadium’s surging new revenues, either. The profits went almost exclusively to the team’s already wealthy owners. here

Florida GOP Dragging Feet on Restoring Voting Rights to Convicted Felons

People who report to Scott appear to be pumping the brakes on Amendment 4.

In advance of Amendment 4 going into effect in the new year, Scott’s Secretary of State Ken Detzner is saying that he has some issues with the rollout of the project. HERE