My first introduction to ICE came on August 14th, from about 8pm to 10pm when a block in Lake Worth was shut down so that a gang of State Troopers could brutalize my neighbors. Local news was almost entirely silent on the matter, save for a brief article describing the police stopping a work van.
Our newest issue of Beyond the Headlines is here in both digital and print! Articles "Lake Worth: When Communities Become Luxuries" Strategies like engaging with elected officials are insufficient to halt gentrification. We can see this in Lake Worth Beach where the state government placed their thumb on the scale to attract developers and additionally [...]
Join One Struggle in our campaign to shut down Alligator Alcatraz Florida Governor Ron Desantis has jumped at the opportunity to flex his authoritarian muscle, enrich his campaign donors and signal his loyalty to Trump through the swift development of the Everglades internment camp "Alligator Alcatraz." Immigrants were detained in the series of tented cages [...]
Credit: Miami News Times - photo by Michele Eve Sandberg/micheleevephoto A week ago, an equal hatred for our current administration had hundreds of Miamians out on the streets of downtown. A scheduled time-in/ time-out organized protest with nationwide events all to say "Trump is not a king". Our only agreement was dissent from this current government. The [...]
Miami can feel like the closest US city to Haiti because many of us know, work with or have loved ones that are Haitian - it is the relationships that really bring these two distant places together. Even with that closeness, it is hard to find grounded perspective on the chaos of the moment they [...]
Local independent perspective: Housing edition
Tired of the constant empty news cycle that doesn't discuss the core of the problems we're facing? We want to go BEYOND THE HEADLINES Unfortunately, media is nothing more than privatized corporations whose main goal is to earn an income rather than inform our communities. Beyond The Headlines is a project by One Struggle that [...]